waxeth

Updated: May 6, 2025

The south is main land, the eastern coast waxeth more and more shallow: from the north, either naturally, because that part of the earth is higher, or of necessity, for that the forcible influence of some northern stars causeth the earth there to shake off the sea, as some philosophers do think; or, finally, for the great store of waters engendered in that frosty and cold climate, that the banks are not able to hold them.

Richard Hakluyt - Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

So I pressed three; but they yielded not so much as did one aforetime. 'What is the cause of that? asked the King; and she answered, 'The cause of it is that the King's mind is changed. Quoth he, 'How knewst thou that? 'We hear from the wise, replied she, 'that, when the King's mind is changed against a folk, their prosperity ceaseth and their good waxeth less. Anoushirwan laughed and put away from his mind that which he had purposed against the people of the village.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV

But above all, doubt not—I say, doubt not one moment,—that as there is One eye that seeth all things in all places, that slumbereth not by day nor sleepeth in the watches of night, that never waxeth weak at any time or weary—as there is One hand against which no panoply can arm the guilty, from which no distance can protect, nor space of time secure him, so surely shall they perish miserable who did this miserable murder, and their souls rue it everlastingly beyond the portals of the grave, which are but the portals of eternal life, and admit all men to wo or bliss, for ever and for ever!"

Henry William Herbert - The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1

My prayers, the wild winds bear them all away; He hearkeneth unto none and none will hear; Wherefore each hour my torment waxeth aye; I cannot die, albeit life irks me drear. Ah, Lord, have pity on my heavy cheer; Do that I seek in vain And give him bounden in thy chains to me.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Here is a good conceit of this holy maid to eschew the temptations of the fiend: "It happeneth," she said, "that otherwhile the devout fervour of a soul loving our Lord Jesu, either by some certain sin, or else by some new subtle temptations of the fiend, waxeth dull and slow, and otherwhile it is brought to very coldness; in so much that some unwitty folks, considering that they be destitute from the ghostly comfort the which they were wont to have, leave therefore the ghostly exercise that they were wont to use of prayer, of meditations, of reading, of holy communications, and of penance doing; whereby they be made more ready to be overcome of the fiend.

- The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521

Countless are the lands, and tribes of men innumerable win increase of the soil that waxeth under the rain of Zeus, but no land brings forth so much as low-lying Egypt, when Nile wells up and breaks the sodden soil.

of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion - Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

Some employ a burden or refrain. Blow, northern wind, Blow thou me my sweeting, Blow, northern wind, blow, blow, blow! Others are touched with a light melancholy at the coming of winter. Winter wakeneth all my care Now these leavës waxeth bare, Oft I sigh and mournë sare When it cometh in my thought Of this worldes joy, how it goeth all to nought.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson

"Never have we had so worshipful a guest before!" quoth Robin, "and, as the day waxeth late, I will send one of my young men to guide thee out of the forest depths." "Nay, Heaven forbid!" cried the Sheriff hastily. "I can find mine own way, good man, without aid."

Howard Pyle - The Adventures of Robin Hood

Againe, that there is another nacion, much longer lived than we are, whiche in their youth are horeheared: and in their age, their heare waxeth blacke. They affirme also that there is another sorte of women that conceiue at fyue yeres olde, and liue not aboue the age of viii. yeres. There are also that lacke neckes, and haue their eyes in their shoulders.

Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 : Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.

Sixth. Seventh. But after this, perhaps the soul grows cold again, it also forgets this grace received, and waxeth carnal, begins again to itch after the world, loseth the life and savour of heavenly things, grieves the Spirit of God, woefully backslides, casteth off closet duties quite, or else retains only the formality of them, is a reproach to religion, grieves the hearts of them that are awake, and tender of God's name, &c.

John Bunyan - Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01