8 example sentences using fain.
Fain used in a sentence
Fain in a sentence as an adjective
Well, hm, IMO his two fain faults are telling 25000 lies in four years and a complete lack of spine.
I would fain give up my imaginary "soul" in return for the whole world.
Below that it stays silent unless loaded, above that, even small loads create constant fain noise.
I defiled, therefore, the spring of friendship with the filth of concupiscense, and I beclouded its brightness with the **** of lustfulness; and thus foul and unseemly, I would fain, through exceeding vanity, be fine and courtly.
Fain in a sentence as an adverb
Well the user's name is Rav Papa, who is a well known Jewish roman-era scholar, which is one tactic he doesn't mention, press all your advantages, usernames are a great way to show fain to be one side but really be the other.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, But am betroth'd unto your enemy: Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
He would fain set it down for ever; engrave it on rock, if he could; saying, "This is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank, and slept, loved, and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities — all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness.