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Example sentences for "mayst thou"

  • Wishing prosperity to their sister, and saying: Thou art our sister, mayst thou increase to thousands of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gates of their enemies.

  • Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her.

  • Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein.

  • And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee.

  • And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways.

  • With this kind of felicity proper to the holy kings of old (rĂ¢garshis) and attainable by practising commiseration towards thy subjects, mayst thou be illustrious, O king of men!

  • Mayst thou, then, rule thy land with righteousness, and may the Lord of the Celestials have thee in his guard!

  • As thou hast rejoiced me now by the release of the king of swans, O thou source of gladness to thy friends, mayst thou in the same way be rejoiced with thy friends and kinsmen for many thousands of years!

  • Adieu, O best of pious men, mayst thou be prosperous, and may righteousness shield thee, and mayst thou be assiduous in the practice of virtue.

  • I am very glad, O great man, to have secured thy friendship; mayst thou be prosperous.

  • When ill success shall make thee idle lie, Mayst thou in bed be impotent as I.

  • Farewel, Aminta, mayst thou want a Lover, When I shall hate both thee and thy whole Sex; I can endure your sober Cruelty, But do despise it clad in Jollity.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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