woodes

And there aboute ben many goude hylles and fayre, and many fayre woodes, and eke wylde beestes.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Wherewith we shut at them, but they feared not our shot, for they knew not what they ment, they thought likewise that the peeces coulde carrie no further then they were long: but when they sawe eight or nine of their fellowes dead, they fled into the woodes, and wee entering vpon the lande set fire on their houses, whereof we burnt about twentie or thirtie.

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

And there aboute ben many goude hylles and fayre, and many fayre woodes, and eke wylde beestes.

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

The thirde is a mixt Fable so called, bicause in it bothe man hauyng reason, and a beaste wantyng reason, or any o - ther thing wanting life, is ioyned with it, as for the example, of the fable of the woodes and the housebandman, of whom

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

Afterwardes, if thou doest vanquishe all mankynde, thou must make warre with woodes and Snowes, with Ryuers and wylde beastes.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

My lordes and maisters saieth he, Esope recited a fable: how that on a tyme, a housebande manne desired of the woodes, a small helue for his hatchet, all the woodes consented thereto waiyng the graunt to be small, and the thyng lesse, therevpo [n] the woodes consented, in fine the housbande man cut doune

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

(Judges 9/2 Par 25) 14 and said: Come and let vs goe, and make warre against the sea, that it may retyre backe before vs, and we may make vs other woodes.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

Hilles, woodes,/and beasts, in theyr naturall coulours, and distante one from an other,/with opposite light.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

(Judges 9/2 Par 25) 14 and said: Come and let vs goe, and make warre against the sea, that it may retyre backe before vs, and we may make vs other woodes.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

It was enjoined of the early Puritans “to walke honestlie in the sweete fields and woodes.”

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914