For I'm weary wi 'hunting, and fain wald lie down.
I'd fain have done so, to try and show him we had both been too hasty.
He rolled off his horse so ignobly and funnily, that even the ambassador was fain to burst out.
Is not remorse the justice which is administered by that very law which you would fain serve?
The lamp looked pale and ashamed; the carvings on the walls, like chained dreams, stared meaningless in the light as they would fain hide themselves.
The Maxim of Excluded Middle is the maxim of the definite understanding, which would fain avoid contradiction, but in so doing falls into it.
His message perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head.
As we walked home, I would fain have enlightened my charge on the characters of the people we had quitted; but she got it into her head that I was prejudiced against them.
