Lexicographical Neighbors of Styed
Literary usage of Styed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"styed simply means 'climbed,' and hence 'ascended,' as in the illustration given.
Sty, a ladder, something to climb by, is one of its derivatives, ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"If fairly treated, it is by no means a dirty animal ; but it is too often styed
up in its own filth. There u re few more pleasing scenes in the farm-yard ..."
3. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in by John Mandeville, Alfred William Pollard, Giovanni, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (1905)
"But Jesus styed to heavens all quick. And therefore they say, that the Christian
men err and have no good knowledge of this, and that they believe ..."
4. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in by John Mandeville, Alfred William Pollard, Giovanni, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (1905)
"But Jesus styed to heavens all quick. And therefore they say, that the Christian
men err and have no good knowledge of this, and that they believe ..."
5. Epea Pteroenta, Or, The Diversions of Purley by John Horne Tooke, Richard Taylor (1840)
"... styed into the top castell, and brought hym tydings glad. ... and styed out
of hell up in to the ayre. ..."
6. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in by John Mandeville (1900)
"But Jesus styed to heavens all quick. And therefore they say, that the Christian
men err and have no good knowledge of this, and that they believe ..."
7. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"styed= ... be translated by ‘styed in years'; but it is misleading. because,
though the Swedish verb ..."
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