Sentence examples for the wench from inspiring English sources

That, though, was long ago, feels like another country, and besides the wench is dead.

"But that was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead".

Linking both groups is Don Adriano de Armado, a Spanish grandee whose absurd pretensions to poetic eloquence and love melancholy are squandered on the wench Jaquenetta.

It's the "wench", not the Queen, who sings, in keeping with the Elizabethan belief that it was the role of servants, not noblemen, to play music in public.

She usually does well on the play outfits, too, like the nurse's outfit ('Make his temperature soar') at £29.99 or 'The Wench' at £31.99.

You don't have to know that "fag the bloss" is "bang the wench" to appreciate that it sounds kind of raunchy: we seem to reserve certain sounds for our feelings of disgust.

Henry IV, Parts I and II The never-knowingly-underacted Antony Sher marks his return to the RSC with the beefiest character in the canon, the wench-and booze-guzzling Sir John Falstaff.Sher's challenge will be to find the lingering pathos of the role, and director Greg Doran's to highlight the kaledoscopic vitality of Shakespeare's richly observed scripts.

The wenches, the wives, the gentlewomen even.

Let the wenches dawdle in such dress As they are used to wear, and let the boys Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.

By the time of Neidhart von Reuenthal, a Bavarian squire (d. c. 1250), the knight had turned his attention from the ladies of the castle to the wenches of the villages; Neidhart's melodies likewise have a certain affinity with folk song.

Theo agreed: "The Wenches made the ultimate gesture years ago".