Occleve

American  

[ok-leev] / ˈɒk liv /

noun

1. Hoccleve.

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Example Sentences

But happily it was not so; it was here, as it had been before with the French importations, and with the earlier Latin of Lydgate and Occleve.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

Another Occleve was going to write the name up on the shields and rolls and things.

From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

"You," said the judge, addressing with a new note in his voice the third prisoner, "You, Occleve, stand in a different—" Rosalie began to pray.

From This Freedom by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

Oblivion had overtaken Gower and Occleve, and Lydgate and Stephen Hawes, and Skelton, and Henryson and James I. of Scotland, and well-nigh Chaucer himself—all the mediaeval poetry of the schools, in short.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Occleve seems, however, sometimes to have told a tale not amiss, for William Brown, the pastoral bard, inserted entire a long story by old Occleve in his “Shepherd’s Pipe.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac