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 • Mar. 3, 2023
Duke of Gloucester in "Henry VI, Part I": Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020
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 • May 16, 2019
Editor Stern has maintained a fastidious regard for the simplicity of the original, replacing "Thou mayst" with "you may" and never caviling at the robust bloodshed that originally accented most of the tales.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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