mayst
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Now with the warm earth o’er thy breast, O wisest of thy kind and best, Forever mayst thou softly rest, In pace, Peter!
From Seattle Times
Duke of Gloucester in "Henry VI, Part I": Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.
From Washington Post
When travel I on land or sea or air, By any mode of transport I may go, However thou mayst urge this bill of fare, Wouldst sample I this dish?
From Washington Post
Thou mayst report to the Philosophical Society that the child’s education continues, though he is delivered out of the shackles of Gitney and Sharpe.
From Literature
In one respect, I regret, his education has ceased: Thou mayst recall he was a prodigious fiddler; and of late, circumstance hath allowed him to borrow a violin of a gentleman of Boston, and fate bade him play it.
From Literature
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