Do we say tire or tyer

tire 752 occurrences

London at all hours is a fascinating study to me, and however much I see of her, I never tire of watching her moods.

At the same time, I have attestations and witnesses of the bargains I made, so that nothing can be clearer than my integrity in this business; but that does not hinder me from being in the utmost terror for the consequences (as you may easily guess) of his villany; the very story of which appears so monstrous to me, I can hardly believe myself while I write it; though I omit (not to tire you) a thousand aggravating circumstances.

For a year he did not tire of me.

Second, the king, with all his pretensions to divine right, remained only a figurehead; and the Anglo-Saxon people, when they tire of one figurehead, have always the will and the power to throw it overboard and choose a better one.

Were we to say that God had so constituted the human mind that routine will tire and disgust it, we should say in effect that he never intended the farmer's life to be one of routine.

The failures of life sit around and complain; the gods haven't treated them white; they've lost their umbrellas whenever there's rain, and they haven't their lanterns at night; men tire of the failures who fill with their sighs the air of their own neighborhoods; there's one who is greeted with love-lighted eyeshe's The Man Who Delivers the Goods.

" "With gold and jewels all is covered, And with a strange tire we are won, (Whilst she's the least part of herself)

" "Nor did she come, although 'twas her desire, Till she compos'd herself, and trimm'd her tire, And set her looks to make him to admire.

" Venus had so ordered the matter, that when her son [5509]Aeneas was to appear before Queen Dido, he was "Os humerosque deo similis (namque ipsa decoram Caesariem nato genetrix, lumenque juventae Purpureum et laetos oculis afflarat honores.") like a god, for she was the tire-woman herself, to set him out with all natural and artificial impostures.

That was another thing he liked about Anne Severn, her splendid physical fitness; she could go stride for stride with him, and mile for mile, and never tire.

My only hope is they'll tire each other out before they're married and break it off.

They hadn't had time to tire of each other before the War broke out.

She could only hope that Maulevrier would soon tire of Fellside.

Pippo, who had that useful tact which enables a man to measure his own estimation with others, was not slow to perceive that the more enlightened part of his audience began to tire of this pretending buffoonery.

The workman in the factory, changed by a fatal and mistaken progress into a slave of machinery, lives fastened to it like another wheel, a spring of human flesh, struggling with his physical weariness against the iron muscles that never tire; brutalised daily by the deafening cadence of pistons and wheels to give us the innumerable products of industry rendered necessary by the life of civilisation.

The greatest ladies in France were now proud to act as her tire-women; and princes and ambassadors flocked to Fontainebleau to pay her homage.

you must serve longer than a week, before you get that much knowledge of the craft; there is no royal way to learning, and even for the making of a horse-shoe a 'prenticeship must be served, and I mistake me very much if you don't tire before seven days service are over, let alone as many years.

You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.

Meanwhile, Lord Roos had taken advantage of the brief halt of the hunting party to approach the Countess of Exeter, and pointing out Gillian to her, inquired in a low tone, and in a few words, to which, however, his looks imparted significance, whether she would take the pretty damsel into her service as tire-woman or handmaiden.

Aware that I am in want of a damsel like yourself, to tire my hair and attend upon me, Lord Roos has drawn my attention to you; and if I may trust to appearancesas I think I may," she added, with a very flattering and persuasive smile, "in your caseyou are the very person to suit me, provided you are willing to enter my service.

" "No doubt you think so," rejoined Lady Lake; "but knowing you would oppose my inclination, I got Sarah to lift me from the couch, and tire me during your absence.

I never tire of watching the entrance into the salon of the married sons of the Countess when each comes to pay his daily visit to his mother.

It is all pantomimenot a word is spokenbut so well done that one does not tire of it.

And I answer, 'Yes, madam, I do; but you tire me.'

I have got the measure of every black heel, on the island, registered in the big book, you see me so often looking into, especially on Sundays; and, if either of the tire-legs I have named dares to enter my grounds, let him expect to pay a visit to the city Provost.

tyer 6 occurrences

If in thys p[ro]myst throng of future ill There may be found a way to anye good Of brave Orlando the great palladyne, My constant industry shall tyer the day And outwatche night

The best hope I have is; you knowe my Guest Mistris Gettica, she has pawnd her Jewels to me already, and this night I look for her Hood and her tyer, or if the worst chance, I know I can intreate her to weare my cloathes, and let me goe in her attire to Court.

By John M. Pittaro, illustrated by James H. Tyer.

by James H. Tyer.

By John M. Pittaro, illustrated by James H. Tyer.

by James H. Tyer.

Do we say   tire   or  tyer