Then she strained the lute to her bosom, bending over it as mother bendeth over babe, and swept the strings which complained as child to mother complaineth; after which she played upon it and began improvisng these couplets, ❋ Unknown (2006)
Presently, one of her maids brought her a silken bag, which she opened and taking thereout a lute, laid it in her lap and smote its strings, whereat it complained as child complaineth to mother, and she sang these two couplets, ❋ Unknown (2006)
Replied Obayd, No! But whenever I have by me a guest like thee, he complaineth in the morning of the mosquito bites, and this happeneth only when he is like thee beardless. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Clitophon, in the first book of Achilles, Tatius, complaineth how that his mistress Leucippe tormented him much more in the night than in the day. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Amphelinam depereunt, &c. They neigh after other men's wives (as Jeremia, cap.v. 8. complaineth) like fed horses, or range like town bulls, raptores virginum et viduarum, as many of our great ones do. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Lookes a-squint on his discourse, and smiles, when hee complaineth. ❋ Heo (2006)
These are the things which David so often and so bitterly complaineth of, and which with so much earnestness he contendeth and wrestleth with God to be delivered from. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
And we are sure that as God complaineth that his sanctuary is polluted, when there are brought into it ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
The truth is, that our friend had been reading among the essays of a contemporary, who has perversely been confounded with him, a paper in which Edax (or the Great Eater) humorously complaineth of an inordinate appetite; and it struck him that a better paper -- of deeper interest, and wider usefulness -- might be made out of the imagined experiences of a ❋ Various (N/A)
Herevpon was the yoong man brought before the king, vnto whom he said; "Sirra, thy father here complaineth that without his licence thou art become a christian: if this be true, I command thee to returne againe to the religion of thy nation, without anie more adoo". ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
[Sidenote: Anselme comming to Rome complaineth of the king.] ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Now after his comming into the parties beyond the seas, [Sidenote: The bishop of Elie complaineth of his wrongs receiued.] he ceassed not with letters and messengers to present his complaint to the pope of Rome, and to king Richard of the iniuries receiued at the hands of earle John and his complices. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
[Sidenote: The earle complaineth to the king.] & with all spéed returned backe to the king, presenting gréeuous information against them of Canturburie, for their cruell vsing of him, not onlie in sleaing of his seruants, but also in putting him in danger of his life. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)
Leland, in sundry places, complaineth likewise of the decay of parishes in great cities and towns, missing in some six or eight or twelve churches and more, of all which he giveth particular notice. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
'The master of every house, as soon as any one in his house complaineth, either of blotch or purple, or swelling in any part of his body, or falleth otherwise dangerously sick, without apparent cause of some other disease, shall give knowledge thereof to the examiner of health within two hours after the said sign shall appear. ❋ Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 (1935)
Nature quickly complaineth of poverty and of trouble; Grace beareth want with constancy. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Some man complaineth more that death doth hinder him from the assured course of a hoped for victorie, than of death it selfe; another cries out, he should give place to her, before he have married his daughter, or directed the course of his childrens bringing up; another bewaileth he must forgoe his wives company; another moaneth the losse of his children, the chiefest commodities of his being. ❋ Unknown (1909)
But I cannot suffer thy daintiness, who with such lamentation and anxiety complaineth that something is wanting to thy happiness. ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1908)
