fain - use in sentences

Infinitive complement

  • follow: Dick would have withheld him, had he been in time; as it was, he was fain to follow.
  • see: This frightened heart is fain To see restored again My Charioteer, in Krishna's kind disguise.
  • do: So that in effect he was fain to do all things himself.

Modifies a noun

  • ti: Add to this, that He says to Owein, Pell o Fôn fain wyt ti, dwythwal werin &c.

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