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
Methinks thou couldst not do it better in a play.
From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Standish, Burt L.
"Surely, Vaterchen," he laughed gayly, "if thou didst but know what it is to be in love thou couldst not scold me so!"
From A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico by Jabez, Brother
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