Greatly were we all concerned when we heard that the "Revenge" had set sail, and that thou hadst departed in her.
We learnt it at the time of our dear grandfather's sudden death, which befell within an hour after thou hadst gone off to join the "Revenge".
And I waited, just to hear what further artifice thou hadst concocted, in order to beguile me.
Thou hadst it in thy keeping, Francesca, as I fondly fancied I had thine!
At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; They went up by the mountains, they went down by the valleys, Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Thou, Lord, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to stand strong: Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
Believe me, Usury, it grieves me thou wast not hanged long ago, For if thou hadst been hanged, before thou slewest Hospitality, Thou hadst not made me and thousands more to feel like Poverty.
Youth, youth, thou hadst better been starved by thy nurse, Than live to be hanged for cutting a purse.
Thou, Carian lord, hadst better have been tost Into a whirlpool.
Be not so fearful--ever hadst thou a coward heart.
Who gave thee courage to pass the shadows of men whom on earth thou hadst not dared to face in war?
And the Spirit of Rei answered: "Her face is that beauty which gathered like a mask upon the face of dead Hataska, and upon the face of the Bai, and the face of the Ka, when thou spakest with the spirit of her thou hadst slain.
Now, as my God shall judge me, I hold it braver done, Than hadst thou tarried in thy place, And died above my son!
Children were we bred together-- She who bore me suckled thee; I have been thine old companion, When thou hadst no more but me.
Thou hast just as good a chance of doing so as thouhadst of finding the ruby, and the necklace and earrings.
Hadst thou fallen into it before I met with thee, I had experienced refreshment and ease.
Hadst thou been slain," asked he of the intelligent brute, "how should I have accomplished my enterprise?
In some other way the counsel of the Lord would have been accomplished, if thou hadst yielded to that last appeal.
Hadst Thou esteemed him less, less wouldst Thou have demanded of him, and that would have been more like love, for his burden would have been made thereby lighter.
If thou hadst not been an adversary thou wouldst not have calumniated me, thou wouldst not have reviled my teaching in order that, when declaring what I have myself heard from the Lord.
Thinkest thou, that, if thou hadst a fair wife or mother or daughter or sister that found favour in Nicostratus' eyes, he would be so scrupulous on the point of loyalty as thou art disposed to be in regard of his lady?
I warrant thee," returned the Master, "thou hadst never believed it, hadst thou not heard me.
Thou sentest thy young clerk to me: and thou knowest that, as often as thou hadst not been with me, I sent word that the priest had not been with me.
But thou must needs mount guard at night beside the door, and think to make me believe that thou hadst gone out to sup and sleep.
Twas my art and craft thus caused thee climb; be it thine to find the way down: thou hadst cunning enough, when thou wast minded to flout me.
Why, as to that," replied Biondello, "would thou hadst relished the lampreys of Messer Corso as much!
And, by my troth, had I known beforehand that thou hadst so much strength in thee, and wouldst have brought me so near to a great mishap I would not have suffered thee to enter this time.
But wert thou born of any other god unto this violence, long ere this hadst thou been lower than the sons of Heaven.
Je-sus said to her, Did I not tell thee that if thou hadstfaith thou should see what great things God could do?
And Mar-tha said to Je-sus, If thou hadst been here my bro-ther would not have died.
Better he might have fared, poor wight, Hadst thou not given him a gleam of heavenly light; Reason he names it, and doth so Use it, than brutes more brutish still to grow.
Excuse me, fine harangues I cannot make, Though all the circle look on me with scorn; My pathos soon thy laughter would awake, Hadst thou the laughing mood not long forsworn.
It is true that the present appearance Bears not the form of the wish, exactly as thouhadst conceived it: For our wishes oft hide from ourselves the object we wish for; Gifts come down from above in the shapes appointed by Heaven.
If thou hadst been a woman in my place, John Wynne, thou wouldst be far from saying the thing thou hast said.
That was a matter thou hadst been wise to consider long ago, Hugh.
And they answered: "Richard Longsword has sent us; he was wiser than Thou, Lord, and could not bear with us as Thou hadst done so long.
How hadst thou the heart now alone to bear grey-eyed Athene?
Then Phoebus, as soon as thou hadst tasted the food of Paradise, the golden bands were not proof against thy pantings, nor bonds could bind thee, but all their ends were loosened.
Heaven would show mercy," rejoined Hester, "hadst thou but the strength to take advantage of it.
Thou wast my pastor, and hadst charge of my soul, and knowest me better than these men can.
Peradventure, hadst thou met earlier with a better love than mine, this evil had not been.
If thou hadst a sorrow of thine own, the brook might tell thee of it," answered her mother, "even as it is telling me of mine.
I thought thou hadst forgotten, and when I go to keep mine tryst with Grief, I find thee there, with thy lips upon the cross.
Sometimes I have felt that thou hadst taken up thy passing, and I have hungered for mine, for it was a certainty in mine heart that the dear Father would give thee back to me in heaven.
Thou hadst given me as many thousands of ducats as Thou hast created candidates for this crown, I should be a candidate myself.
Thou hadst the thought to be equal to Kmita, to belong to his company, to be compared with him?
Sir Hereward, were thy head a match for thy heart or thy vast sinews, belike thou hadst not saved it to-day.
This it is I noted in thee yesterday, and marvelled at--when thou hadst ruled the lines bordering the painted initial letter with effect to cut off holy St. Adhelm's ear.
Thou hadst not killed thy first horse, in Somerset, ere we knew of thee and thy quest.
Hadst thou eyes to see my faire, Thou wouldst sigh thy selfe to ayre: Fearing to create this one, Nature had her selfe undone.
Else by the weeping magicke of my verse, Thou hadst reviv'd, to triumph o're thy hearse.
Chast Love whohadst thy tryumph in my flame And thou Castara who had hadst a name, But for this sorrow glorious: Now my verse Is lost to you, and onely on Talbots herse Sadly attends.
O day It was thy piety to flye; th' hadstbeene Found accessary else to this fond sinne.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hadst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
