amain🔊

It [this book] shews too, who sets out for life amain, / As if the lasting Crown they would attain: / Here also you may see the reason why / They loose their labour, and like Fools do die.

The palfrey was as fleet as wind, / And they rode furiously behind. / They spurr'd amain, their steeds were white; / And once we cross'd the shade of night.

But as the strange captain, leaning over the pallid bulwarks, was in the act of putting his trumpet to his mouth, it somehow fell from his hand into the sea; and the wind now rising amain, he in vain strove to make himself heard without it.

Now when he was got up to the top of the Hill, there came two Men running against him amain; the name of the one was Timorous, and of the other Mistrust. To whom Christian said, Sirs, what's the matter you run the wrong way?

So that it was like a sweet home-coming to him to come on board his well-built ship and have her rowed amain out of Lookinghaven.

Riches are mine, Fortune is in my hand; / They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain, / While Virtue, Valour, Wisdom sit in want.