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Example sentences for "thou canst"

  • Quoth I, 'For myself, thou canst find me where thou wilt; but thou, who can come at thee where thou art?

  • And he went on to humble himself to the fox and say to him, 'Haply, thou canst do somewhat to deliver me from destruction.

  • Thou canst not go home; there is none here fit to take charge of thee.

  • My mother will make thee welcome, if thou canst climb as high as the castle yonder.

  • I have no hand at making of speeches, quoth Panurge to me privately; prithee, man, make answer to her for us, if thou canst.

  • Proceed further in them, and learn the remainder if thou canst.

  • Wherefore, my son, I admonish thee to employ thy youth to profit as well as thou canst, both in thy studies and in virtue.

  • Thou canst well of woodcraft," said the King, after a pause, "and hast started thy game and brought him to bay as ably as if Tristrem himself had taught thee.

  • Thou canst show me," said Richard, "no special interest thou hast to become intercessor betwixt me and the execution of justice, to which I am sworn as a crowned king.

  • Try thy boasted strength on this bare brow, and see if thou canst prevent my purpose.

  • But I need not ask thee--thou canst not be idle if thou wouldst; thy noble qualities are like a fire burning within, and compel thee to pour thyself out in music and song.

  • Thy word is law; thou canst dispose of us The living, as thou will'st, as of the dead.

  • Not that I wish thee sad, heaven knows-- Still if thou canst, be light and gay; I only know that without thee The sun himself is dark for me.

  • Lord, if it be Thy will, Thou canst heal me!

  • Then he opened his arms and again launched forth his flaming cry, as if he had torn it from his glowing heart: "Lord, if it be Thy will, Thou canst heal me!

  • Thou, thou villain, Hast pushed my boat to open sea; to prove, At my sad cost, if thou canst steer it back.

  • Caesar, thy worst; Now part us, if thou canst.

  • Thou canst accept the money for him, and when thou art in the Soudan, and he is going to do it, thou canst prevent it.

  • What Joseph the Israelite did, thou canst do; for I am no more unjust than was that Rameses whom Joseph served.

  • If thou art able, correct by teaching those who do wrong; but if thou canst not, remember that indulgence is given to thee for this purpose.

  • Thou canst pass thy life in an equable flow of happiness, if thou canst go by the right way, and think and act in the right way.

  • Humphrey of Gloucester, if thou canst accuse Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge, Do it without invention, suddenly; I with sudden and extemporal speech Purpose to answer what thou canst object.

  • A short alarum; then enter the town with soldiers] O'ertake me if thou canst; I scorn thy strength.

  • Come, officer, as loud as e'er thou canst, Cry.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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