wist
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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We Are Young, too, is wistful for an era that was already full of wist.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013
The Trusty Eckart felt it, But wist not of the cause; His heart the music melted, He wondered what it was.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
As it chanced there were four human eyes watching that she wist not of.
From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Lewis Wingfield
Who that comrade was to be he wist not; any companionship would be better for him than none.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist: It moved, and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various
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