straunge

Peraventure ye haue much oothir knowlech of straunge thinges as wel.

Archive 2007-01-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

August 21st, 2006 now wonder nyce and straunge/Us thinketh hem, and yit they spake hem so. (spoylerez!) the always brilliant Geoffrey Chaucer (chaucerhathblog) has written an insightful review of that new hot play, Serpents on a Shippe.

August 21st, 2006 chaucerhathblog 2006

George Chapman wrote in 1575: "I have rather regarde to make our native language commendable in it selfe, than gay with the feathers of straunge birdes."

'On Eloquence' 2008

There set they abroche straunge confortes of melody, to tickle the eare; costly apparel, to flatter the sight; effeminate gesture, to rauish the sence; and wanton speache, to whet desire too inordinate lust.

The More Things Change II Heo 2006

And whan that messangeres of straunge contrees comen before him, the Meynee of the Soudan, whan the straungeres speken to hym, thei ben aboute the Souldan with swerdes drawen and gysarmez and axes, here armes lift up in highe with the wepenes, for to smyte upon hem, zif thei seye ony woord, that is displeasance to the

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And the earth at that tyme beyng but clammie and softe, through the attemperaunce of that moysture and heate, man there first to haue bene fourmed, and there to haue gladlier enhabited (as natiue and naturall vnto him) then in any other place, when all places ware as yet straunge, and vnknowen, whiche aftre men soughte.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

For zif that I devysed zou alle that is bezonde the see, another man peraunter, that wolde peynen him and travaylle his body for to go in to tho marches, for to encerche tho contrees, myghten ben blamed be my wordes, in rehercynge many straunge thynges.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And to saie truthe, it ought not to sieme greatly straunge vnto folkes, though the countrie be reported to haue suche

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

For many men han gret lykynge to here speke of straunge thinges of dyverse contreyes.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And zif ony straunge messagre come there to a lord, men maken him to ete but ones a day, and that fulle litille.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004