Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pennes.

Examples

  • For he hathe his talouns so longe and so large and grete, upon his feet, as thoughe thei weren hornes of grete oxen or of bugles or of Kyzn; so that men maken cuppes of hem, to drynken of: and of hire ribbes and of the pennes and of hire wenges, men maken bowes fulle stronge, to schote with arwes and quarelle.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • For he hathe his talouns so longe and so large and grete, upon his feet, as thoughe thei weren hornes of grete oxen or of bugles or of Kyzn; so that men maken cuppes of hem, to drynken of: and of hire ribbes and of the pennes and of hire wenges, men maken bowes fulle stronge, to schote with arwes and quarelle.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Mittie ex vobis unum, et accipiat fratrem vestrum, vos autem vincti eritis, et probabuntur verba vestra, anveritas sit pennes vos: sin minus, per vitam Pharaonis certe exploratores estis.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Nay let any Historie bee brought, that can say any writers were there before them, if they were not men of the same skill, as Orpheus, Linus, and some other are named, who having bene the first of that country that made pennes deliverers of their knowledge to the posteritie, nay, justly challenge to bee called their Fathers in learning.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • _Henry_ Earle of Surrey and Sir _Thomas Wyat_, betweene whom I finde very litle difference, I repute them (as before) for the two chief lanternes of light to all others that haue since employed their pennes vpon English Poesie, their conceits were loftie, their stiles stately, their conueyance cleanely, their termes proper, their meetre sweete and well proportioned, in all imitating very naturally and studiously their

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • But yet before I make an ende, I wyll showe you the order of co {m} men castyng, wher in are bothe pennes, shyllynges, and poundes, procedynge by no grounded reason, but onely by a receaued [* 131a] fourme, and that dyuersly of dyuers men: for marchau {n} tes vse one fourme, and auditors an other:

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Fyrst wyl I turne the poundes into pennes, so wyll there be

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Agayne you maye se, that auditours wyll make 2 lynes (yea and more) for pennes, shyllynges, {and} all other valewes, yf theyr summes extende therto.

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • But the holie ghost, who is the spirite of Concorde and vnitie, did so illuminate their hartes, and directe their tonges, and pennes, that as they did conceiue and vnderstand one truth, so did they pronounce and vtter the same, leauing a testimonie of their knowledge and Concorde to vs their posteritia.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878

  • But the holie ghost, who is the spirite of Concorde and vnitie, did so illuminate their hartes, and directe their tonges, and pennes, that as they did conceiue and vnderstand one truth, so did they pronounce and vtter the same, leauing a testimonie of their knowledge and Concorde to vs their posteritia.

    The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.