Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweyed
Literary usage of Sweyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland, Walter William Skeat (1884)
"sweyed, pt. s. sounded, b. pr. 10 n. ... See sweyed. This reading seems to be
quite distinct from ..."
2. Specimens of Early English by Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat (1879)
"Sware, adj. square. 13. 319. Sware, pt. s. swore, 2. xxiii. 10. Swe, pr. pi.
sway ; rather read sweyed, pt.pl. swayed, 13. 956. ..."
3. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"P. PI. sv: 'This reading seems to be quite distinct from sweyed and to refer to
the motion rather than to the ..."
4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... me to rest Under a broad bank By a burn's side; And as I lay and leaned, And
looked on the waters, I slumbered into a sleeping, It sweyed' so merry. ..."
5. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland, Walter William Skeat (1884)
"sweyed, pt. s. sounded, b. pr. 10 n. ... See sweyed. This reading seems to be
quite distinct from ..."
6. Specimens of Early English by Richard Morris, Walter William Skeat (1879)
"Sware, adj. square. 13. 319. Sware, pt. s. swore, 2. xxiii. 10. Swe, pr. pi.
sway ; rather read sweyed, pt.pl. swayed, 13. 956. ..."
7. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"P. PI. sv: 'This reading seems to be quite distinct from sweyed and to refer to
the motion rather than to the ..."
8. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... me to rest Under a broad bank By a burn's side; And as I lay and leaned, And
looked on the waters, I slumbered into a sleeping, It sweyed' so merry. ..."
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