methought
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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For methought that a goodly man was bearing me off through the pleasant willow-groves, by the river-banks, and places strange to me.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
When I read the words, The cruel words, methought my heart stood still, And when the ebbing life returned I seemed To have lost all thought of Love.
From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir
And just as a bulky sugar puncheon, All ready staved, like a great sun shone Glorious, scarce an inch before me, Just as methought it said, 'Come, bore me!'
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
I was going to practise the day after the next, and methought I will then discover.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
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
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