So down they went into that rose garden which methought was like to prove their fool's paradise, and Yvonne and I were left alone.
Men of position were they for the most part, gentlemen of the Court with here and there a soldier, and from the manner in which they eyed me methought they favoured me but little.
Andrea, and for a moment methought he would have struck him.
The twain in the boat stood up, wielding their great oars, and methought them on the point of coming to their master's aid, in which case my battle had truly been a lost one.
Now for myself I cared little who might come, but methought that it was likely to do poor Jeanneton's fair name no benefit, if the arm of Gaston de Luynes were seen about her waist.
Also did I recall the riddle touching Vilmorin's conduct which a few moments ago I had puzzled over, and of which methought that I now held the solution.
Him, however, methought no great evil was to be feared from.
Then they passed from me to the vanishing Jeanneton, and methought that she was about to call her back.
An air of pensiveness added interest to his handsome face and courtly figure, and methought that Geneviève must be hard to please if she fell not a victim to his wooing.
My imagination was raised--methought the lively colours of the complexion had faded, the benignant smile had vanished, and an expression of perplexity and sternness usurped its place.
At noon the letter arrived, coldly, confusedly written; methought there appeared even a degree of irritation in it.
I looked at him as he finished speaking, and caught his eye for a moment; its expression methoughtwas doubtful.
I assumed a firmer tone--methought he insulted me.
The moon suddenly emerging from a thick cloud, I observed his countenance, and methought his features seemed familiar to me; but they were overspread by a pallid and death-like hue.
Men say that Calais is closely besieged by the King, and methought he had need of thee and my father likewise whilst the campaign across the water lasted.
Methought it was some angel visitor from the unseen world," answered Raymond, "flitting into yon dark prison house, where it seemed that no such radiant creature could dwell.
Last night, after seeking unto this saint and that, methought "why not applie unto y^e fountain head?
Methought I was tired of waiting for Will, and became alarmed.
Last night, as I looked out from where I lay at Preston, methought the red warrior shot his spear athwart their soft scintillating light; and as I gazed, his ray seemed to ride half-way across the heavens.
As I fixed my eyes on those little traceries, it might be fancy, but methought I saw the bright flash of a human eye gazing on me.
The airmethought was much altered as well as the manner of the houses, which are built flatter, more after the eastern manner.
Being taken before the Governor, he demanded my pass, to which he set his hand, and asked two rix-dollars for a fee, which methought appeared very exorbitant in a soldier of his quality.
Ivanhoe, raising himself joyfully on his couch, "methought there was but one man in England that might do such a deed.
And bear me to the shadowy land of dreams Where yesternight I roamed by crystal streams, And gathered flowers methought would never fade, Or talked with angels 'neath the pleasant shade!
Oh how terrified Methoughtwas Curio, from whose throat was cut The tongue, which spake that hardy word.
Methought certain scales or films fell from my eyes, which had hitherto hindered these little tokens from being visible.
Methought I saw her lovely spirit go With lingering looks into yon star so bright, Which then assumed such a beauteous light, That all the fires in heaven compared with this Were scarce perceptible to my weak sight.
We mistake, if a Petrarch-like delicacy is not to be found in the following:-- Methought my Love was dead.
Methought I could distinguish in their hands all those paintings and images, sacred to this divinity, brought out on this portentous occasion, from the subterraneous apartments and mystic cells of the temple.
I sank to the earth in a trance, during which a sound like the rush of pennons assaulted my ear: methought the evil spirit was bearing off his soul; I lifted up my eyes, but nothing stirred; the stillness that prevailed was awful.
On their Approach, methought I saw a new Bloom arise in your Face, and new Charms diffuse themselves over your whole Person.
Methought I was unaccountably conveyed into the most delicious Place mine Eyes ever beheld, it was a large Valley divided by a River of the purest Water I had ever seen.
This imaginary Noise, which methought was louder than the burst of a Cannon, produced such a violent Shake in my Brain, that it dissipated the Fumes of Sleep, and left me in an Instant broad awake.
As soon as we were alone, I saw her eyes full of tears, and methought she had much to say to me, for which she wanted encouragement.
Belvidera gave me a glance, whichmethought intimated, that they were both curiosities in their kind, and worth remarking.
Methought this short interval of silence has had more music in it than any the same space of time before or after it.
Methought the Prince in whiskered state Before me at his breakfast sate; On one side lay unread Petitions, On t'other, Hints from five Physicians!
Methought I heard thee midst a courtly crowd Say from thy throne of gold, in mandate loud, "Worship my whiskers!
Only methought the time too swiftly pass'd, And every note I fear'd would be the last.
She hath been ailing of late, and methought the change would be of benefit.
Methought that fur rug yesterday was sumptuous after my experience with the wind and snow, but your friends have lodged me like a king.
Methought the query was prompted by idle curiosity.
Methought the time was propitious to make an entry.
Methought 'twas too daring to have originated with Peggy.
Methought 'twas understood that he was to be granted every indulgence consistent with his safe-keeping.
And methought that after doing all this she would return to Me; but she returned not; and the Traitress, her sister Judah saw it.
Methought thou wouldst call Me 'My Father,' and wouldst not turn back from following Me.
Methought we should have lost our lives as well as our goods, and I doubt not we should have done so had you not ranged yourselves with us.
Methought that the Draper and Hatter filed in, Along with the Grocer, his nearest of kin; And I caught the Co-oper just in the neck, In his hand were his divi.
Methought as I walked I sprang up so high, That I really found out I was able to fly; So backwards and forwards methought that I flew, To the clubs of the town which I found were all Blue.
When I said a mother, Methought you saw a serpent: what's in mother, That you start at it?
Methought you said You saw one here in court could witness it.
And lo, I came to Lewes, and methought one devil only sat on the gate, and swayed the hearts of all the men in the town.
And as we were all at prayers in the chapel, methought it was full of devils whispering all sorts of temptations, as they did to Saint Antony, trying to keep the monks from their prayers and meditations.
Methought I was in Heaven’s domain, Within that place so fair to view, And held to my breast my loved one prest, When down I sank the cloudlets through.
Methought I was in heaven’s domain, Within that place so fair to view, And held to my breast my loved one prest, When down we fell the cloudlets through.
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