leasings

And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.

Waverley 2004

Look you, my gude friend, there has been twenty things said about this same lord, in which there is no more truth than in the leasings of Mahound.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Whereby (with some indifferent reason) it is concluded, that dreames do not alwayes fall out to be leasings

The Decameron 2004

Whereby (with some indifferent reason) it is concluded, that dreames do not alwayes fall out to be leasings

The Decameron 2004

Sir, said she, I came not hither to tell you any leasings, for if I could, yet I would not, because it is not good to fable with such

The Decameron 2004

Historiographer make leasings, if history be a report of plaine trueth?

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Historiographer make leasings, if history be a report of plaine trueth?

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

For all thy sages are exceeding deceitful, they say leasings before thyself -- that thou shalt find in this day's space.

Roman de Brut. English Layamon

And in the meanwhile, you may believe, good mine host, what I have said, and take to you your books, and agree with their truths or leasings as you please, and much good may it do you; and I pray God that you halt not in time on the foot that your guest Don Quixote halteth.

The Fourth Book. V. Treating of That Which Befel All Don Quixote His Train in the Inn 1909

‘I, poor soul, being alone amidst my friends, and weakly practised in such affairs, began, I know not how, to account his leasings for verities, but not in such sort as his tears or sighs might any wise move me to any compassion that were not commendable.

The Fourth Book. I. Wherein Is Discoursed the New and Pleasant Adventure That Happened to the Curate and the Barber in Sierra Morena 1909