Forsooth

//fɔɹˈsuθ//

"Forsooth" in a Sentence (7 examples)

Forsooth, if this were in a play, I'd want my tuppence back!

Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?"

A fit man, forsooth, to governe a realme!

[F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]

‘Saint forsooth!’ said ill-natured Mrs. Brady.

The four boys pumped up their hate to hissing steam. Harmless, quotha. Innocent, forsooth.

Her eyes widened. She squeaked a bit. "Don't tell me she caught you bending again?" "Bending is right. I was half-way under the dressing-table. You and your singing," I said, and I'm not sure I didn't add the word "Forsooth!" Her eyes widened a bit further, and she squeaked another squeak.

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