methought
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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"I cry you mercy, Master Martin," quoth the other; "you did bring in impiety, and so methought piety should not be excluded."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
For, methought we were still steering to the South, when on our larboard hand uprose a range of lofty hills, upon which it seemed to me that I could almost have jumped.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
And when I did eate of those fishes, methought they were exceeding good.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de
"Why, methought I left it open," said he.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
For methought that a goodly man was bearing me off through the pleasant willow-groves, by the river-banks, and places strange to me.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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