If thou wertnot my father, I would say, I will not!
Therefore, so soon as thou wert of an age, set in thy strength and able to thine own support, I tore myself from thy sweet fellowship and lived alone lest, having thee, I might come nigh to happiness.
Thou wert indeed of an high estate and strong, and these but lowly folk and weak--yet mercy on them had ye none.
Thou wert in thy former life a Rishi of immeasurable soul, known as Nara of great might At the command, O child, of Brahma, thou hast been born among men!
Thou wert wont to say always, 'Save thee there existeth not one dear unto me.
O wielder of the bow with the left hand, O thou of mighty arms, thou wert a god before, eternal (as other gods).
Wou'd I had never known another Dwelling, But this too happy one where thou wert born!
Thou wert undone, I understand thee-- And will be secret as a Confessor, As lonely Shades, or everlasting Night.
But, Galliard, thou wert telling me thy Adventure with Silvianetta; there may be comfort in't.
Thou wert brought to allow of the eating of beans?
Be, as thou wert, best steward of my hours, And so return into thy country bow'rs.
Speak as thou wert won't, Like Love herself, my lovely Honorea.
Far off from human neighbourhood, Thou wert born, on a summer morn, A mile beneath the cedar-wood.
The people: "Thou wert a prophet and our shepherd during our march through the desert, and now thou sayest, 'I know not out of which rock God will give ye water.
Thou wert right," answered the sultan; "but now for myself.
Thou wert with us so long, that we feel toward thee like one of the family.
If thou wert ill, how wouldst thou like to have thy throat cut, instead of being kindly nursed?
If thou wert not a coward, thou wouldst not try to intimidate me with a pistol," replied Isaac.
Didst thou not tell methou wert ordered to turn me out?
Thou wert so meek and reverent, So resolute of will, So bold to bear the uttermost, And yet so calm and still.
Work as if thou hadst to live for aye; Worship as if thou wert to die to-day.
If thou wert sensible of courtesy, I should not make so dear a show of zeal.
If thou wert honourable, Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not For such an end thou seek'st, as base as strange.
With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my Rosalind; so, adieu.
Whether it does harm or not, I will not allow it, and even if thou wert to stand on thy head for it, thou shouldst not have a drop of the milk!
Canst thou neither cut thy swathe straight, as thou wert wont to do, nor keep time with thy neighbour in thy reaping, but thou must fall out, like an ewe that is foot-pricked with a thorn and straggles from the herd?
But if thou wert wedded to sorrow and poverty and troublous care, thine ambition, thus struck dead, would of consequence strike dead thy love?
And so, if thou wert wedded to one worthy of thee, in his ambition thou wouldst soar and dare?
As to the rest, thou wert unshaken in the belief that they were ruled by reason.
But if, as thou wert ready to acknowledge just now, the fact of foreknowledge imposes no necessity on things future, what reason is there for supposing the results of voluntary action constrained to a fixed issue?
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thou wert" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
