Do we say guise or guys

guise 1023 occurrences

They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim: Perhaps 'Dundee's' wild-warbling measures rise, Or plaintive 'Martyrs,' worthy of the name; Or noble 'Elgin' beets the heavenward flame, The sweetest far of Scotia's holy lays.

There, in thy scanty mantle clad, Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies! Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade!

"Saint Guise, but that would even up the score nicely.

The fear of such a result sank him exceedingly low; but through all he was permitted to keep his footing upon the rock, and to behold a spiritual blessing under the guise of temporal adversity.

But I was taught to fear them no more than those who stalked about in material guise.

Thus with a compassion for all echoes in human guise, I greet the solemn-faced "native preacher" whom I find awaiting me.

If thou be she whom sometime thou didst faine, And bearest not the name of friend in vaine, Let not thy borrowed guise of altred kinde Alter the wonted liking of thy minde, But though in habit of a man thou goest Yet be the same Eurymine thou wast.

And is thy fancie alterd with thy guise? Eu.

In guise thou art, I see.

The guise thou seest doth with my kinde agree.

The Duke of Guise. 3.

We leave Carl to return to his farm with his wife, for whom he had suffered so much, and with the hope that no further temptation may come to him in such a guise as almost to make murder a virtue.

But under any guise, Dawson, I am always sure of knowing you.

Even one of the standing armies of the sixteenth century, under such a general as Henry IV. or the Duke of Guise, could have effected more than all the crusaders of two hundred years.

Our pilot tells us that it is named the 'Hen Barrier,' and for the following reason: Once on a time, there dwelt on the right bank an evil spirit, in the guise of a rock, shaped like a hen.

But they were bitterly hated by the king and the princes of the house of Valois, and especially by the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorraine,the most powerful famlies in France,because they meditated to overturn, not the throne, but the old established religion.

His father, Antoine de Bourbon, although King of Navarre and a prince of the blood, being a lineal descendant from Saint Louis, was really only a great noble, not so powerful as the Duke of Guise or the Duke of Montmorency; and even he, a leader of the rebellion, was finally won over to the court party by the seductions brought to bear on him by Roman priests.

Although the Prince of Condé had been slain at the battle of Jarnac, this great misfortune to the Protestants was more than balanced by the assassination of the great Duke of Guise, the ablest general and leader of the Catholics.

How could it be averted otherwise than by the assassination of Henry himself, and his cousin Condé, and the brave old admiral, as powerful as Guise, as courageous as Du Gueslin, and as pious as Godfrey?

The Duke of Guise, who aspired to the throne, was himself assassinated, as his father had been; and now, by the orders of his jealous sovereign, his brother, the Cardinal of Guise, nephew of the Cardinal of Lorraine,a man who held three archbishoprics, six bishoprics, and five abbeys, and these the richest in the kingdom,shared the same fate.

The Duke of Guise, who aspired to the throne, was himself assassinated, as his father had been; and now, by the orders of his jealous sovereign, his brother, the Cardinal of Guise, nephew of the Cardinal of Lorraine,a man who held three archbishoprics, six bishoprics, and five abbeys, and these the richest in the kingdom,shared the same fate.

Under the guise of levity and pleasure and good-nature, he studied and comprehended all these parties and factions, and hated them all.

But Condé, the first prince of the blood, was shut up in prison, and the powerful Duke of Guise was exiled.

Characters like Charity, Hope, Faith, Truth, Covetousness, Falsehood, Abominable Living, the World, the Flesh, and the Devil,in short, all the Virtues and the Vices,came on the stage in the guise of persons, and played the drama of life.

Unluckily my personal charms are not easily disguised, so that I have had to lurk in the background, and only make my private investigations in the guise of my own ghost.

guys 130 occurrences

CHAPTER VI "SOMETHING ABOUT THESE GUYS" West glared at Morse, his heavy chin outthrust, his bowed legs wide apart.

Squint at a buck cross-eyed, whisper rum to him, an' one o' these guys jumps a-straddle o' yore neck right away.

They ranged alongside, and he leaned on Tom's arm as he limped off, giving no further heed to the mass of damaged engine, crumpled wood, bent steel guys, and torn canvas that had once been a powerful bombing plane.

It's enough to mark you one to be seen thereyou meet all the crazy guys you see in classes and never anywhere elseand of course that wouldn't stop when Sylvia's frat sisters began going there.

If I only knew a hundred words of the "Kouan-hoa," which is the language spoken in the Celestial Empire, I might perhaps make something out of these curious guys.

" "Yeh, them rich guys, they got it all their own way," Spider spoke up, gloomily.

After the war the smart guys came through and talked the people into voting bonds, but there was no railroad built and most counties paid their bonds, but the county in which Osceola stands refused to pay for their bonds because there was no railroad built, and they told the collectors to 'show me the railroad and we will pay,' and that is where 'show me' originated.

RULE XIIFINAL Y. The final y of a primitive word, when preceded by a vowel, should not be changed into i before any additional termination: as, day, days; key, keys; guy, guys; valley, valleys; coy, coyly; cloy, cloys, cloyed; boy, boyish, boyhood; annoy, annoyer, annoyance; joy, joyless, joyful.

I used to kid myself I was, but handier guys took it out of me.

The three wise guys.

Mussolini's tough guys.

FRANK, WALTER H. The guys on the ground.

The guys on the ground.

RUNYON, DAMON. Guys and dolls.

RUNYON, DAMON, JR. Guys and dolls.

FRANK, WALTER H. The guys on the ground.

The guys on the ground.

The specimens would have to go; to be borne out ingloriously in the face of the besieging force, limp and passive, like a couple of those very helpless guys that are wont to be produced by what Mrs. Kosminsky would call 'der chiltrens.'

The ideas 'guys,' 'Mrs. Kosminsky' and 'the fifth of November' unconsciously formed themselves into a group from which in an instant there was evolved a new and startling train of thought.

He stuck his head out of the window and looked down sourly at the guys.

Here, at the sight of the guys, the sergeant's woeful countenance brightened somewhat.

"My first proceeding, after locking up the shop, was to rig up, with the green grocer's stakes and Mrs. Kosminsky's cord, a firm pair of standards to support the guys.

The process of converting the specimens into quite convincing guys was not difficult.

"I carried the male guy down to the yard, sat him on the barrow and put on his hat; and taking with me the remains of the ruined guys, which I decided to put away in the drawers, I returned for the second effigy.

Close to Spital Square I found a quiet corner where I quickly dismounted the guys, covered them with the tarpaulin and, urged by a new anxiety from the rapidly-growing density of the fog, groped my way into Norton Folgate.

Do we say   guise   or  guys