177 examples of pate in sentences

"Forsooth," exclaimed the archer, writhing in his bonds to stare upon Beltane, "forsooth, Roger, he took a dour ding upon his yellow pate, look ye; but for his mail-coif he were a dead man this hour" "He lieth very still," groaned Roger.

A man with a round red face and a bald pate whose curly fringe of grizzled, reddish hair made him look like a clown in a pantomime, motioned them with a surly thumb toward the back of the house, where clattering preparations for supper were audible and odoriferous.

The old man with the bald pate was seating himself at the head of the board, and Johnnie asked the privilege of helping wait on table.

per lb. PATE BRISEE, or FRENCH CRUST, for Raised Pies. 1216.

There, Katy, this curly-pate will answer as well as a wax doll for you.

" Now, although Little John had been somewhat abashed in the Queen's bower, he felt himself the sturdy fellow he was when the soles of his feet pressed green grass again; so he said boldly, "Now, blessings on thy sweet face, say I. An there lived a man that would not do his best for theeI will say nought, only I would like to have the cracking of his knave's pate!

Pow, pate.

Old Toby said nothing, but he cast many an anxious look around at the adjacent trees, as if he had an idea lingering under his woolly pate that in some way or other this new disaster might have a connection with the shooting of the wildcat.

Why, my Lectorius, I have ever learnt That ladies cannot wrong me with upbraids; Then let her talk, and my concealed hate Shall heap revengement upon Sylla's pate.

The general died very suddenly in the arms of Major Pate.

By Jupiter's cloven pate, 'tis true.

would I were hanged, but I looked for a sound rap on the pate, and that made me beforehand to lift up this excuse for a buckler.

Till every pate be drunk, then piss i'the street, Jostle all you meet, And swagger with a punk As thou wilt do now and then: thank me, thy good master, that brought thee to it.

His wife sent me out of Yorkshire to tell him that God had blessed him with two sons; he bids a plague of them, a vengeance of her, crosses me o'er the pate, and sends me to the surgeon's to seek salve: I looked, at least he should have given me a brace of angels for my pains. THOM.

Mr. ALLAN AYNESWORTH'S finished skill was reinforced by a quite admirable make-up, though only a policeman of very melodrama could have missed that brilliant pate as it shone balefully over the inadequate chair in which he sat concealed while his subordinate was bullying the hapless Anna.

I arose with a shining pate, wigless; she in disdain and wrath, half-buried in alien hair.

At last Caddy, taking compassion upon his forlorn condition, procured a basin of water, and assisted him to wash from his woolly pate what had been intended for the next day's meal.

The relatives of the young giddy pate had empowered me to pay his debts; and if she could contrive an interview with him for me, she might rely on being satisfied with the result of the first.

I'll sing you a good old song, Made by a good old pate, Of a fine old English gentleman, Who had an old estate; And who kept up his old mansion At a bountiful old rate, With a good old porter to relieve The old poor at his gate Like a fine old English gentleman, All of the olden time.

He was a clod-pate, nothing less.

"An' it's hot, too, it is," he continued, applying his kerchief again to his pate "If it warn't for the ice we stand on, we'd be melted down, I do belave, like bits o' whale blubber.

Even Fate, Though so great, Must not prate; His bald pate Jove would cuff, He's so bluff, For a straw.

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When I had shaved him he asked for pink powder to be applied to his chin; and when I had powdered him he directed me to shape his mustache with Pate Hongrois, a process which he superintended with anxious care.

What does a grizzle-pate with love?" said he, gruffly.

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