- past tense form of methinks.
methought
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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How strange, methought, I should have lived so near, Nor ever worshipp'd Nature's altar here!
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde
Despite the web, methought they saw, appalled, The stealthier weft in which all sound was still ...
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton
After this methought I was taken to see heaven; where I beheld the Lord Himself seated on His kingly throne, and angels in the shapes of white birds singing for Him.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
A potter at his work I chanced to see, Pounding some earth and shreds of pottery; I looked with eyes of insight, and methought 'Twas Adam's dust with which he made so free!
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
There was less flouncing and fanning, methought, than in the larger town; but no doubt the usual telegraphy was carried on, only in a more covert manner, as became the severer exigencies of village decorum.
From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward
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