"Wayed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wide-wayed Troy were cast down, and of the towers and houses of the chiefs nothing stood but staring walls and rafters charred by fire; and when the temples of the Dardan Gods had been sacked, and scorn done to the body of Priam the Old; and Cassandra in the ...
— The Ruinous Face • Maurice Hewlett
... deathless gods or deathly men. From its root grew forth a hundred blossoms, and with its fragrant odour the wide heaven above and the whole earth laughed, and the salt wave of the sea. Then the maiden marvelled, and stretched forth both her hands to seize the fair plaything, but the wide-wayed earth gaped in the Nysian plain, and up rushed the Prince, the host of many guests, the many-named son of Cronos, with his immortal horses. Maugre her will he seized her, and drave her off weeping in his golden chariot, but she shrilled aloud, calling ...
— The Homeric Hymns - A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological • Andrew Lang
... 9th of May 1500, having a fair wind, the fleet weighed by signal from the general, and set sail at eight in the morning[4]. "The whole fleete having wayed, did then begin to cut and spread their sayles with great pleasure and crie, saieng altogether, Buen viage, that is to say, a luckie and prosperous voyage. After all this, they beganne all to be joyfull, every man to use his severall office: The gunners in the midst of the ship, hailing the maine ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. II • Robert Kerr
... se is at the ful. The wynde vs calleth our sayles ar displayed. Where may we best aryue? at Lyn or els at Hulle? To vs may no hauen in Englonde be denayd. Why tary we? the Ankers ar vp wayed. If any corde or Cabyl vs hurt, let outher hynder. Let slyp the ende, or els ...
— The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 • Sebastian Brandt |
