"Pyle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [Fol. 48b.]] [Sidenote: The words of Solomon.] The ry[gh]twys man also sertayn Aproche he schal {a}t proper pyle, at take[gh] not her lyf in vayne Ne glauere[gh] her nie[gh]bor wyth no gyle; 688 Of ys ry[gh]t-wys sa[gh][28] salamon playn, How kyntly oure con aquyle By waye[gh] ful stre[gh]t he con hym strayn, & scheued hy{m} e rengne of god a whyle, 692 As quo says "lo [gh]on louely yle, {o}u may hit ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various
... about twenty-one years of age, full black, and medium size. As he had been worked hard on poor fare, he concluded to leave, in company with his brother and two cousins, leaving his parents in slavery, owned by the "Widow Pyle," who was also the owner of himself. "She was upwards of eighty, very passionate and ill-natured, although a member of the Presbyterian Church." ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... And she that is by them iudged to haue borne her self beste in that behaulfe, and to haue bene dierest to her husbonde: she in the beste maner and moste gorgeous that she can deuise, triumphing and reioysinge, getteth her vp vpon the funeralle pyle wher her housebandes corps lieth ready to be brente, and ther kissinge and embrasinge the deade body, is burned together with her housebande. So gladde is she to haue the victorie, in the contencion of wiuely chastitie, and honeste behauiour toward her husbande. And the other that lyue, thincke ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
... dyynge toe! Soe falles the fayrest flourettes of the playne. Who canne unplyte the wurchys heaven can doe, Or who untweste the role of shappe yn twayne? AElla, thie rennome was thie onlie gayne; 1240 For yatte, thie pleasaunce, & thie joie was loste. Thie countrymen shall rere thee, on the playne, A pyle of carnes, as anie grave can boaste; Further, a just amede to thee to bee, Inne heaven thou synge of Godde, on erthe we'lle synge of ...
— The Rowley Poems • Thomas Chatterton
... circumstance which could, to speak advisedly, have led to such a course of deception as was practised by this boy; born of obscure parents, his father, a man of dissolute habits, was sub-chanter of the Cathedral, and also master of the free school in Pyle-street; this clever, but harsh, and dissolute man died in August, 1752, and the poet was born on the 20th of the following November.[3] Such a parent could not be a loss; he would have been, in all human probability, as careless of his son ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various |
