How happily compendious didst thou make My study when I was the lines to draw Of genuine beauty!
He won the day, But for the conquest thou didst pay.
How didst thou groan it In the spirit, O thou whom my soul loves and fears!
How didstthou cry, And groan on high, 'Father, forgive, And let them live!
Thus soared thy soul, who, though young, didst inherit Together with his blood thy father's spirit, Whose active zeal and tried faith were to thee Familiar ever since thy infancy.
But thou thy freedom didst recall, That it thou might elsewhere inthrall; And then how could I but disdain A captive's captive to remain?
And if I sought to turn mine eye from off myself, he went on with his relation, and thou didst again set me over against myself, and thrusted me before my eyes, that I might find out mine iniquity and hate it.
If thou didst bestow upon him thy bounty, thine is the blame not to have given it freely, and without expectation of good to thee, save the doing of the act itself.
Thou didstreply To the Abhorred, O soul of mine: "No single beauty is the best When she is all one flower divine.
And didst thou deem the barren isle, or ocean waves, could bind The master of the universe--the monarch of mankind?
For thou didst gird me with strength unto the battle, thou didst enlarge my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
And didst thou nothing to alienate her affections from thy brother?
Why dost thou seek me now, when but a few days since thou didst chide the squaw for her willingness to oblige me?
Not long since thou didst tell of an unhappy man, round whom afflictions had gathered.
But thou didst arise, O Lord, thou didst disappoint him and cast him down; thou didst deliver my soul from the wicked.
Had the children of the Forest offended thee, that thou didst deliver them into the hand of their enemies?
Thou didst find compensation for lamentation over the dead, in the caresses of the living?
In her arms thou didst forget the brother, whom thy cruelty had doomed to the maniac's cell and chain?
Thou didst pity and shalt be pitied: thou wast merciful and shalt receive mercy.
Drink in it Della Scala's health, as thou didst once before.
Art not Thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before Thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend for ever?
Thou didst not aske burnt-offerings at my hand Then LORD said I 'I come at Thy commaund; Thy Booke eternall, doth of mee record, That I should come to doe Thy will O Lord!
Thine indignation turne And make mee not to wicked fooles a scorne, When Thou didst strike I silent was and dum[b] Because I knewe the blowe from Thee did come.
My sacrifice of meates Thou would'st not take, But Thou mine eare didst peirce and open make.
Thou wert a favourite falcon, kept in captivity by an old woman: When thou heard'st the falcon-drum thou didst fly away into the Void.
Falling like rain from heaven upon the roof of the terrestrial world Thou didst run in every direction till thou didst escape by conduit.
Thou didst strongly shake thy wings and feathers, and having broken thy cage Didst take to the air and journey towards the world of Soul.
O heart, what a wondrous bird art thou, that in chase of divine rewards Thou didst fly with two wings to the spear-point, like a shield!
The rose flees from autumn--O what a fearless rose art thou, Who didst go loitering along in the presence of the autumn wind!
Beshrew me, Sis, but since when didst thou shift to so fair a taste for--what was it?
See; thou didst but set fast foot in this thy native soil of Norway.
T was the great Olaf, thine uncle, Olaf Tryggvesson the King, that didst call thee.
Surely, though, thy fear was larger than thine eyeballs; for thoudidst multiply both the followers and the harm done to thee.
As thoudidst say, we both be boys, and life is all before us.
Let me, I pray thee, play out my day here at La Zisa, even as thou didst promise me.
But I have heard it said thou didst obey no law but thine own will--and his.
Thou hast sworn to me thou didstnot help to murder the woman.
I bless thee, O thou wise and loving Guide, That thou didst lead to full salvation's tide, And there my heart didst wash in crimson blood, Restore into the image of my God.
Worn straight by the priggish or surly Thou didstnot enthuse or beguile; But tilted a little and curly Of brim--how seductive thy style!
Didst thou in sooth believe Thy presence would be welcome?
Thou didst withhold nothing from me, help me to withhold nothing from Thee.
COME AND SAVE MAN WHOM THOU DIDST FORM OUT OF THE DUST.
Lord, Thou didst deliver to me five talents, behold I have gained other five over and above.
O King of nations and their desired One and the Corner-stone that makest both one, come and save man whom Thou didst form out of slime!
Thou didst make all the Indies shine with much light" (Hymn of the Greek Church to St. Thomas), and that light was the light of faith in Him Whom they had not seen.
Thou Who didst not refuse the manger-bed, come to my heart, look at the contrition and the humiliation and the reparation and the aching longing to be what Thou dost want, and forget the faithlessness and the failures and the weakness.
If it were not that Thou didstask for it, I dare not offer it.
Thou didst seem to understand me when I hinted of--in a word, what is the object William would gain from me?
As thou didst illumine Moses with the fire, so illumine our hearts and minds that we may win eternal life.
O God, who didst reveal the wood of the true cross on Mount Calvary, where Christ was betrayed by Judas (for God gave over his Son to be betrayed by Judas), reveal to us by the judgment of the barley bread whatever we ask in thy name.
I was chaste and thoudidst fill my veins with fire.
I was a virgin, and thou didsttake my virginity from me.
What man didstthou ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means?
Thou, thou, didst bid me kill My mother: which is sin.
Why didst render not Back unto us, the children of the dead, Our father's portion?
And didst thou bear, Bear in thy bitter pain, To life, thy murderer?
Oh, thou didst walk in agony, Hearing thy mother's cry, the cry Of wordless wailing, well know I.
I have placed thy letter in the box thou didst give me, and no day passes that it is not wet with my tears.
I thus communed with myself: "O Es-Samit, thou didstcontract with thy brother to do this and that, and to render unto him a proper account of thy dealings.
As thoudidst enter my house in yonder box, in yonder box shalt thou quit the world!
When the partner in thine infamy didst steal the key of the door from me, thinkest thou that mine eyes were blind to the theft, O thou foredoomed carrion?
Thou hast returned as thou didst promise; therefore I conjure thee, conceal not thy face from thy slave!
O thou spawn of offal, learn that I have been aware of thy malevolent intentions since first thou didst seek to penetrate into my secret.
Let others say the thing they please, My faith, though very dim, Thinks He will say who always sees, In doing it to one of these Thou didst it unto him.
Didst thou ever hear of a creature," said he, "that puts an iron ring around his own neck?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "didst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
