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Sithen

Sithen \Sith"en\, adv. & conj. [See Since.] Since; afterwards. See 1st Sith. [Obs.]

Fortune was first friend and sithen foe.
--Chaucer.

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sithen

conj. 1 (context obsolete English) From or since the time that. 2 (context obsolete English) since then, after that.

Usage examples of "sithen".

But those attempts had happened inside the sithen, where I was supposed to be safe.

Simply to be seen while the reporters are in our sithen would raise suspicion.

I do not do my utmost to solve these deaths, to protect everyone in this sithen, from greatest to least, then I do not deserve to sit on any throne.

Put that same spell caster inside the sithen, inside faerie, with no damper of metal and technology on them, and your officers would be in even greater danger of being bespelled.

You have called the police into the sithen, Princess, and we must prepare.

An idle comment could have grave consequences, if the sithen has truly returned to that much life.

The main hallways of the sithen have not affected humans in this way for more than fifty years.

I was kneeling on rough stone, in the half-light of the sithen hallway.

You could not sit on the throne of a specific sithen unless the sithen itself accepted your right to rule.

A tremendous crashing filled that light, a thunderous sound that shook the floor beneath me, and thrummed along my bones like the very walls of the sithen had convulsed with us.

The light that was everywhere and nowhere in most of the sithen began to seep through the room.

Now that the sithen lives again, it will answer to other magicks besides your own.

We had been met at the door to the sithen by guards and taken straight to the queen.

And the traveller Leopold was couth to him sithen it had happed that they had had ado each with other in the house of misericord where this learningknight lay by cause the traveller Leopold came there to be healed for he was sore wounded in his breast by a spear wherewith a horrible and dreadful dragon was smitten him for which he did do make a salve of volatile salt and chrism as much as he might suffice.

The guns would only be allowed in certain parts of the sithen, the faerie mounds.