couldst
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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If thou couldst ever put thy pride away, Belike my prejudice would fall aside.
From Slate • May 28, 2014
Douay's Dalila, for example, asked Samson in stodgy Elizabethan English "Wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Heartily do I wish thou couldst see this household—its freaks and pranks and glories.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Thou couldst not; thy heart of ice will melt, but that will cost thee a carolus.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
Say, hast thou tracked a traveller's round, Nor visions met thee there, Thou couldst but marvel to have found This blighted world so fair?
From Poems on Travel by Various
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