wert
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Borgia, thou once wert almost too august And high for adoration;—now thou'rt dust!
From Slate ● May 8, 2012
A blessing wert thou, O oblivion, If thy stream carried only weeds away, But vernal and autumnal flowers alike It hurries down to wither on the strand.
From Slate ● May 8, 2012
Douay's Dalila, for example, asked Samson in stodgy Elizabethan English "Wherewith if thou wert bound thou couldst not break loose?"
From Time Magazine Archive
"What thou wert and still art will not die!" cried the Prince who carried on as Chancellor.
From Time Magazine Archive
We wert walking through the fair, and something inside my rib cage began to stir.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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