If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. From LearnThat.org. [Henry van Dyke (1852-1933).]
Adverb : He fain would accept. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : They were fain to go. ,He was fain to obey his Lord. From Dictionary.com.
Your name fain would I know. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
No, I could not "fain," as she did; but I glanced at my watch as I rose from the table, and found that it wanted a quarter of eight. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Gift. A Novel.] Reference
Have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference
Still will be some, whose form thou fain wouldst change. From Wordnik.com. [The Georgics] Reference
He would fain have said one word to him, only one word; but. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Before we'll part, I'll wage a croon, she's fain to follow it yet. From Wordnik.com. [Music For Sting's Favorite Season] Reference
We cannot linger, as we fain would do, over the quaint and amusing. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Caesar put the proffered crown aside, but he would fain have had it. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
I was fain to confess that one of two things was certain: either the. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
"About as usual," returned Judith coldly, and would fain have added. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Mr. Forster, at the conclusion of his remarks, would fain have drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
I would fain dwell upon this happy meeting and lengthen it to the utmost. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Mrs. Slocum was touched by her appearance, and fain would have claimed her. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"Yes, yes," he said, "I would fain gaze upon the outer door of thy dwelling.". From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
Is one that would fain run an even path in the world, and jut against no man. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
Hudson would fain have steered Greenland way and had another try for the north. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
I fain would have pleaded illness or some other false reason for my transgression. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
A reminder of some tiresome or disagreeable little duty which you would fain forget. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
I thought of the world's myriad sleepers, and would fain have played Captain Handy to them all. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
Thou wouldst fain find her who is thy enemy, although thou deemest her to be thine innocent friend. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
And with this enigmatical expression I was fain to be content; for she would vouchsafe me no other. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
I panted for a suit of black for it, but could not obtain one; so I was fain to put up with one of blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
We have already seen him at a "militia muster," and fain would we pause here, to display him at a barbecue. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
All that she had felt, all that she meant for the future, surged strong within her -- was fain for utterance. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
But there are others to whom from our bright homes, our cheerful firesides, we would fain say a word, if we dared. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
David Nesbit and Reddy Brooks, who made me keep quiet when I wished to speak, and speak when I fain would have slept. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
They were both prepared to try again; I would fain think that hope and the sense of power was yet strong within them. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
He shook his head, for he would fain escape the pain of saying openly that he was too poor to think of such a purchase. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
"Come and ask me when -- when you have caught the Motor Pirate," she said, and with that answer I was fain to be content. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
Ideala understood, and would fain have stopped the story, but it seemed a relief to the girl to speak, and so she listened. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
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