Sir T. North

Cited as Sir T. North. — 19 quotations

Base

If any . . . based his pike.

Birthmark

Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural birthmark, . . . a snake.

Black

That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers.

Counterpoint

Embroidered coverlets or counterpoints of purple silk.

Detracter

Other detracters and malicious writers.

Dishonest

Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women].

Divination

Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come.

Gravel

The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.

Grindstone

They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to the grindstone.

Infect

Them that were left alive being infected with this disease.

Inure

He . . . did inure them to speak little.

Kercher

He became . . . white as a kercher.

Lattice

Therein it seemeth he [Alexander] hath latticed up Caesar.

Plunder

Inroads and plunders of the Saracens.

Poll

His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs.

Rational

Moral philosophy was his chiefest end; for the rational, the natural, and mathematics . . . were but simple pastimes in comparison of the other.

Recommendation

The burying of the dead . . . hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient.

Shed

They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise.

Unhandsome

A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage.