If he'd made a botch of the job 'twould have saved me offerin' my plant to the city.
If I had married you then 'twould have saved many a misfortune.
Mind this--'twould be very awkward for you if your old man were to know.
But mind, not a word of this; for 'twould be the loss of a winter's work to me if I had spread such a report and it were not true.
If I throw this sword into the water,' said Sir Bedevere to himself, 'how great a sin 'twould be to waste so noble a weapon.
Twould be but the grinding of a chain beside a horseblock.
Be thankful unto heaven and your master: Nor let your heart grow bigger than your purse, But live within a limit, lest you burst out To riot and to misery again: For then 'twould lose the benefit I mean it.
The following passage is to the same effect: "'Twould make a horse break his bridle to hear how the youth of the village will commend me: 'O the pretty little pinking nyes of Mopsa!
Freedom and bondage wit can make all one; So 'twould by being left and being lov'd, If I had any of it temper'd so.
Nay, Kit, I do think 'twould break my heart indeed, if anything of my doing should mar my Moll's happiness.
And now having his money in our pockets, we felt 'twould be more dishonest to go back from this business than to go forward with it, lead us whither it might.
As for Dawson, he declared he would sooner see his Moll in her winding-sheet than in the king's company, adding that 'twould be time enough for her to think of going to court when she had a husband to keep her out of mischief.
He made it to appear that the lower part of his vaulted roof was wainscoted in the style of the walls, and to such perfection that 'twould have puzzled a conjurer to decide where the oaken panels ended and the painted ones began.
Then I think 'twould have been kinder of you to give me a hint of it beforehand.
And if, as you say, we owe her everything, then I count 'twould be a mean, dirty return to make her live out of England and feel she has a sneaking coward for a father.
None, mistress; but 'twould be a dread villain verily who would carry the engines of his trade abroad in daylight to betray him.
Be God, sure 'twould nearly get the job for myself.
NAGLE A man wearin' a watch and chain like that would get credit anywhere he'd be known, though 'twould be no use to a stranger.
But perhaps 'twould be better to make sure and try again.
Sadly) 'Twould be better for us all in spite of what the clergy say that we were all Protestants, or else died before we came to the use of reason.
Twould cause a riot if there was enough o' people about.
He gets a shilling a week now, he'd got two then, perhaps three, and 'twould be such a help to us.
I could have wished the summer was coming on instead o the winter--'twould be easier for him to begin upon.
Twould be hard if we failed at these arts, since they are about all we do know.
Twould gladden thee, yet sadden thee to hear how we kissed and forgave one another.
Could all the choirs That charm the poles But strike one doleful sound, 'Twould be employed to mourn our souls, Souls that were framed of sprightly fires, In floods of folly drowned.
The pistol was loaded, but 'twould never be fired, and nobody would have thought of searching its barrel.
About the third day 'twould be as bad as being tied to the stake in the middle of the flames.
I might pin it to the barn door, or--maybe 'twould be better if I fastened it beside the painting.
P'r'aps 'twould be better to cook two for each of us.
Twould seem (as some one aptly said) As though a nobleman lay dead Upon an upper landing, In such tranquillity and quiet Do members masticate their diet!
Seems to me 'twould be natural if I did, Mrs. Reisen.
Twould be sure death to fling one's self down, since the rock at the base is after all too wide to be passed by a leap from the window.
But, for Old Marvin now--Methinks 'twould please me well to shoot against him at archer match.
Then indeed we knew that if any of us returned alive from this adventure, 'twould be by the favor of all the Saints and by the utmost might of our arms.
Were I bested by such as he, 'twould be no honor lost.
My lord, methinks 'twould better the match for those that come to see our archery if we had, besides yonder target, a moving mark.
Twould seem else that thy lodge is but meagerly furnished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twould" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
