"Lene" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... am so fat, I never thenk to ben in his prison lene; Sin I am free, I counte him not ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... nor'mal pre cise' bull'y wool'en or'phan pre side' bull'ock cool'ly tor'por pro scribe' bul'rush scoun'drel quar'ter com mode' bush'el bal'sam ac claim' en gross' bull'ion squad'ron o paque' con sume' crup'per war'rant sca lene' pre sume' cuck'oo ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey
... supposed, that a canon written to bind the whole Irish Church, should have inculcated a practice of such importance, merely because St. Patrick had a regard for the Holy See. This Canon was acted upon in the Synod of Magh-Lene, in 630, and St. Cummian attests the fact thus:—"In accordance with the canonical, decree, that if questions of grave moment arise, they shall be referred to the head of cities, we sent such as we ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
... penates, Colligit agresti lene papaver humo. Dum legit oblito fertur gustsse palato, Longamq{ue} imprudens exsoluisse famem". - OVID. ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... hit. Hereupon his three comrades jumped over the paling and escaped; but him they caught, and had already taken aim at him with their firelocks, when his wife Lizzie Kolken came out of the church with another troop and beckoned to them to leave him in peace. But they stabbed Lene Hebers as she lay in childbed, speared the child, and flung it over Claus Peer's hedge among the nettles, where it was yet lying when they came away. There was not a living soul left in the village, and still less a morsel of bread, so that unless the Lord took pity on their need they ...
— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold |
