alength
Appearance
Middle English
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[edit]alength (not comparable)
- At full length; lengthwise
- 13th c., Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, Page 154
- Þen gone forthe the grekes, graithet engynes,
Batold hom all abrode vmbe the bare walles;
Layn ladders alenght & oloft wonnen.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th c., John Lydgate, Troy Book: Book 3, 5115-6
- For lost she had bothe myght and strengthe,
And plat she fil to the grounde alengthe- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1550, Thomas Nicolls (Translator), Thucydides, The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, Book 4, pg. Cxviii
- [They] fa∣stened yt wyth yrone at bothe endes. And also alengthe [...] and to one of the endes they fastened wyth chaynes of yronne a greate cawdrone of brasse
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 13th c., Guido delle Colonne, Historia destructionis Troiae, Page 154
- For the whole length of
- c. September 1306, Unknown composer, Song on the Execution of Sir Simon Fraser, (as given in 1885, Thomas Wright, The Political Songs of England: From the Reign of John to that of Edward II, pg. 65) 46-8
- Ne be he ner so stout,
ȝet he bith y-soht out
o brede and o leynthe.- Be he never so stout
Yet he is sought out
Wide and far
- Be he never so stout
- c. September 1306, Unknown composer, Song on the Execution of Sir Simon Fraser, (as given in 1885, Thomas Wright, The Political Songs of England: From the Reign of John to that of Edward II, pg. 65) 46-8
- Far-off
- 1884, Richard Rolle, Rev. H. R. Baramley (Editor), The Paslter or Psalms of David and Certain Canticles With a Translation and Exposition in English, pg. 140, 12.
- And thai that ware biside me stode olenght: and fors thai made that sought my sale
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1884, Richard Rolle, Rev. H. R. Baramley (Editor), The Paslter or Psalms of David and Certain Canticles With a Translation and Exposition in English, pg. 140, 12.