Fine, in old slang

Usage examples of oke.

In this sort I was houlden in an intrycate minde of doubts, at length ouercome withall kinde of greefes, my whole bodye trembling and languishinge vnder a broade and mightye Oke full of Acornes, standing in the middest of a spatious and large green meade, extending forth his thicke and leauie armes to make a coole shadowe, vnder whose bodye breathing I rested my selfe vppon the deawye hearbes, and lying vppon my left syde I drewe my breath in the freshe ayre more shortly betwixt my drye and wrinckled lips, then the weary running heart, pinched in the haunche and struck in the brest, not able any longer to beare vp his weighty head, or sustaine his body vpon his bowing knees, but dying prostrates himselfe.

Robin-goodfellow, the spoorne, the mare, the man in the oke, the hell-waine, the fier drake, the puckle, Tom Thombe, hobgoblins, Tom Tumbler, boneless, and such other bugs, that we were afraid of our own shadowes.

And leet comande anon to hakke and hewe The okes olde, and leye hem on a rewe In colpons, wel arrayed for to brenne.

I, Alda, high priest among the Oke Priests, have been summoned to pass judgement.

Lieutenant Okes said carefully, 'I have often read of your exploits in the Gazette, sir.

If Okes had been officer-of-the-watch he might have panicked and raised an almighty row which even Pomfret, half sodden with drink in his bunk, would have heard.

But when Herrick had relieved Lieutenant Okes at four o'clock Okes had whispered quickly that Bolitho had been on deck for most of the night.

It should have been Okes on the starboard side, but perhaps he was already dead, like so many of the others.

He thought, too, of Herrick's face when he had told him he was taking Lieutenant Okes with him in the lugger.

Should he be killed before the raid was finished, how would Okes manage?

Cradled on his knees was a half-eaten pie, and even as Okes staggered to a halt Rennie glanced up at him and dabbed at his: mouth with a handkerchief.

He caught Okes up around the curve in the road and gasped, 'Where's Mr.

As the musket smoke drifted clear Okes saw the soldiers falling back, leaving others screaming and kicking in a low gorse.

It seemed to Okes that another age passed before all his men were aboard and the last of the marines were falling back along the pier.

No, Herrick frowned as he tried to relive exactly the moment Okes had stepped aboard, unmoved was not the proper description.