Nay," said Hardrager, "but for the mischance which thou deplorest, thou mightestindeed have been in purgatory.
Then Telemachus spake unto the son of Nestor, saying: 'Son of Nestor, in what wise mightestthou make me a promise and fulfil my bidding?
And lo, thy son is now of an age to hear thee, he whom thou hast above all things prayed the gods that thou mightest see with a beard upon his chin.
Surely we sent thee on thy way with all diligence, that thou mightest get thee to thine own country and thy home, and whithersoever thou wouldest.
For to this very end didst thou sail over the deep, that thou mightest hear tidings of thy father, even where the earth closed over him, and what manner of death he met.
And he took a great oath of me not to tell thee till at least the twelfth day should come, or thou thyself shouldst miss him and hear of his departure, that thou mightest not mar thy fair flesh with thy tears.
Now Nestor of Gerenia, lord of chariots, sent me forth to be his guide on the way: for he desired to see thee that thou mightest put into his heart some word or work.
For it is God that led thee out of the furnace of Egypt, that thou mightest be the people of His inheritance.
We, on our part, want to retain thee, only that thou mightest in difficult cases enlighten our eyes; for thou wert the man who gave us good and fair counsel, to which God Himself could not refuse His assent.
As Moses now utterly refused to bear the burden of the people alone, God said to him: "I gave thee sufficient understanding and wisdom to guide My children alone, that thou mightest be distinguished by this honor.
And Delilah said unto Samson, "Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound.
And Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
I wish that thoumightest know him better, for I and all my men will strive to honor you both at this merrymaking.
Now thou mayst have my clothes and welcome," said he, "and thou mightest have had them in exchange for thine without the cost of a single farthing, far less two golden angels.
That thou mightest open the eyes of the blind, and bring forth the prisoner out of prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
I have put my words in thy mouth, and have protected thee in the shadow of my hand, that thou mightest plant the heavens, and found the earth: and mightest say to Sion: Thou art my people.
That thou mightest say to them that are bound: Come forth: and to them that are in darkness: Shew yourselves.
Methought that belike thou mightestnot know that; and so I sent for thee for to tell thee that it behoovest thee to say not one single word concerning him to any of these new friends of thine, nor who he is, nor what he is.
Thou mightest as well say that 'all cattle, and creeping thing and beast of the earth, are created equal, because I said I brought them forth of the earth, as to affirm the equality of men because I say they are of one blood.
How many letters hast thou indited to holy men, imploring their prayers, not that thou mightestobtain these human --nuptials, shall I call them?
How often in prayer that thou mightest keep unspotted thy virginal purity hast thou poured forth thy tears!
I have taken possession of Heaven for thee, as the Great High Priest, that thou mightest live the Heavenly life, that thou mightest have access into the holiest of all and an abiding dwelling place there.
Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.
Thou mightest tell that for a bit of gossip to the Queen, who, perchance, hath influence with the Signor Bernardini.
Even now, thou mightest have been a slave in the land of the Turk, were it not for thy faithful upholding by the galleys of Venice, which came between thee and the devastators.
Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord He is God; there is none else beside Him.
At the least, as an infant he was good and gentle, and thou mightest love him, Mother of the Zulu.
If I, the king, wished to kill thee, mightest thou therefore kill me or those whom I sent?
Move not from the log where thou sittest, for thou mightest stray too far into the forest.
I, too, Egwina, have thought of the miracle, for such it was, and it hath seemed to me that thou wert spared that thou mightest give Him thy service.
Already the lotion had done its work, and thou mightest have carried red-hot iron thy nine feet and back, and no scar would there have been.
And thou mightest well set up Henry and seek to maintain him till he has time to prove himself.
Thou mightestrighteously have surrendered me to my own perverse will; left me to the fruit of my own ways, and to be filled with my own devices.
Thou mightest long ere now have left me to reap the fruits of my own guilty estrangement, withdrawing the grace and Spirit I have so long resisted, executing against me the awful doom of the cumberer.
For the apostle mentions them for this very purpose, that by considering the dishonor into which thou fallest, thou mightestrecover thyself from this conformity, and return to thy proper dignity.
But evident it is that so Thou canst not do; for if Thou couldst, or if Thy God would have showed Thee any such pleasure, Thou mightest long ago have removed Thy hunger, and needest not have endured this languishing for lack of food.
On this account God appointed for him a more extended arena, and a longer racecourse, that thou mightest the more carefully observe his combatant.
If thou within these twelve weeks turn to the right, and if thou wilt of Rome any doom suffer, then mightest thou live, among thy people.
And he prayed the mild Son of God to be to thee now in aid, that thou mightest do well, and the land receive from God.
The yet it were a doubt, whether thou mightest possess her, for Ygaerne is chaste, a woman most true; so was her mother, and more of the kin.
And if we might with art get Merlin, then mightest thou thy will wholly obtain.
Was it not in very truth for this, that thou mightest always be busy and in action?
And was it then for this that thou wert born, that thou mightest enjoy pleasure?
Doest not thou perceive, how many things there be, which notwithstanding any pretence of natural indisposition and unfitness, thou mightest have performed and exhibited, and yet still thou doest voluntarily continue drooping downwards?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mightest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
