And when that messengers of strange countries come before him, the meinie of the soldan, when the strangers speak to him, they be about the soldan with swords drawn and gisarmes and axes, their arms lifted up in high with those weapons for to smite upon them, if they say any word that is displeasance to the soldan. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And when he hath no war, but rideth with a privy meinie, then he hath borne before him but one cross of tree, without painting and without gold or silver or precious stones, in remembrance that Jesu Christ suffered death upon a cross of tree. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Afterward it befell upon a day, that the Can rode with a few meinie for to behold the strength of the country that he had won. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The doctor's meinie, therefore, took their way along the open, avoiding all prominences of landscape and people. ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)
And then he maketh her lady of his money, and of his house, and meinie. ❋ Robert Steele (1902)
So in due time, after three soundings on the silver trumpets and much curious ceremony of bread and salt, came Don Sancho the Wise in a meinie of his peers, very noble on a roan horse; and Dame Berengère his daughter in a wine-coloured litter, with her ladies about her on ambling palfreys, the colour of burnt grass. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
Who then can it be but her who is at the head of the meinie of this house, who hath misdemeaned herself thus to the spreading amongst those under her of evil reports and surmises affecting her lord's cousin, mistress Dorothy Vaughan? ' ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
'I would not have those of your meinie brought into jeopardy for my cause.' ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
"But, Lord King, he has with him a meinie of full forty knights." ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
And at that started out two knights, who had come down from the castle, seeing the meinie on the down, and asked, -- ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
Etiquette was not yet discovered by Norman barons and earls, who thought themselves all but as good as their king, gave him their advice when they thought fit, and if he did not take it, attacked him with all their meinie. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
Bourne with a great meinie, full a hundred strong, and with him the sheriff and the king's writ, and arrested Hereward on a charge of speaking evil of the king, breaking his peace, compassing the death of his faithful lieges, and various other wicked, traitorous, and diabolical acts. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
So away they all went to Pont de l'Arche, a right gallant meinie: and ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
Yled with his meinie, [2] and the queen to her also. ❋ George Gilfillan (1845)
King Arthur and all his _meinie_ must have been out, for the appearance over the mountains was most singular. ❋ Louisa Stuart Costello (1834)
Only as he rode to and fro, thrusting and hewing, he shouted to his men to spare Sir Robert, and all his meinie, crying that he was the savior of his life; and when the fight was over, and all Ivo's and Ralph's men who were not slain had ridden for their lives into Stratford, he shook hands with that venerable knight, giving him innumerable thanks and courtesies for his honorable keeping; and begged him to speak well of him to the king. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
'if that ill-gotten beast Bertran had been of your meinie our last words had been said. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
Now, whither goes Earl Osbiorn, and all his great meinie? " ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
