methought
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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So early acquainted with the sweet Muse, who attuned my soul to pure harmonies, I won her, and methought was loved by her in return.
From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Graeme, Elliott
This youth that you see here, I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death; And to his image, which, methought, did promise Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by Kemble, J P
"Yea, well," I cried; "and that I was so angered at her patience, which methought was foolish, yea, wicked in its excess, that it did throw me into a passion."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
"But," said Judith, timidly, "methought you said you were going out with these same desperate men?"
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
For, methought we were still steering to the South, when on our larboard hand uprose a range of lofty hills, upon which it seemed to me that I could almost have jumped.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
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