hadst
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death,
From BBC • May 5, 2023
Jonson assures the dead playwright that his artistic reputation is secure, “though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 4, 2015
What an intense appreciation hadst thou of literature, always going fast asleep over anything more substantial than the morning paper.
From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander
And Mar-tha said to Je-sus, If thou hadst been here my bro-ther would not have died.
From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Pollard, Josephine
Thou couldst desire no earthly thing But stil thou hadst it readily; Thy musicke still to play and sing, And yet thou wouldst not love me.60 Greensleeves was all my joie, &c.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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