methought
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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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
"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.
The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
I feared him, methought the ghost of all those dead sat on that glittering glaive.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
As I lay, I rose up: methought the house was all on fire, so brightly did it shine.'—Amphitruo, 1060-67.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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