O queen of Carthage, wert thou ugly-black, AEneas could not choose but hold thee dear!
Wert thou the Pope thou might'st not scape from us.
When wert thou in the field with banner spread, 180 But once?
I knew thou wert deceiving us when thee said 't was not thine," charged the girl.
Thou wert hardly in the way of it," replied Mr. Drinker.
Ho, Charles, art as hot for the rebels as thou wert a moment since?
Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he?
Why thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
If thou wert my fool, Nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being OLD before thy time.
From the same snowy alabaster rock Those hands and thine were hewn; those cherries mock 50 The corall of thy lips: thou wert of all This well-wrought copie the fair principall.
And thou, was it not that thou wertalso coming to make thy home here for some days, until thy day of marriage?
Before I gave thee this lesson, which is a better than thou ever gavest any one, and easier to remember, thou wert accusing me of invidiousness and malice against those whom thou callest the great, meaning to say the powerful.
I wish Sir Joshua Reynolds had painted thee in those days, my dear: but thou wert the very image of one of his little ladies, that one who became Duchess of Buccleuch afterwards.
I will not however stop thee long, for thouwert going on quite consistently.
Thou wouldst govern this kingdom but a short time in peace and safety, if thou wert to follow the counsels of the heart only.
Then thou wert as frightened for him when he met thee on the road as a mouse in a mouse-trap, and hid thyself under a heap of clothes, like a dog on board a ship.
When thou who wert his all of joy, hast vanished from his view?
Who said that I had given thee up, who said that thou wert sold?
No," she replied, "I should blush for thee, if thou wert capable of such baseness.
I did do so to prove thee, and know whether thou wert resigned to the Divine will, and wert walking in those ways wherein alone thou canst become worthy of initiation into the highest grade of knowledge.
A man such as thou art, may well look at king's daughters; but wert thou thy father Cyrus himself, I could not allow my Tachot to leave me for Persia!
Aristomachus, "wert thou ten times more fainthearted than thou art, and were our enemies double their number, I at least, will fight them!
And Psamtik, in presence of these witnesses, swear to honor and respect thy step-mother, as if thou wert her own child.
I have not quite forgotten thee; Thou wert an early importation From Erin's Isle, and thy migration Did little damp in heart or hand Thy love for the old parent land, Who's green is greener in its pride Of bloom than all the world beside!
As thou wert erewhile wont my sight to bless, So to console my mind thou now dost fly; Hope therefore stills the pangs of memory, Which coupled with desire my soul distress.
Heaven showed she knew Thee, who Thou wert and whence, Veiling her eyes above the riven earth; The mountains trembled and the seas were troubled.
I will sleep in thy arms, my warrior, as if thou wert alive.
The man is of no mortal mould, and thou wert pityingly comforted by him in his flight as by a father.
How wert thou not ashamed to send so cruel a message?
When thou wert gone, I returned with Keyuraka, and sat down near the couch of flowers; and there I gladly remained, receiving ever fresh marks of kindness from the princess.
Tell us from the very beginning the whole history of thy birth--in what country, and how wert thou born, and by whom was thy name given?
Holy Caterina, thou who hadst no other love but Christ, thou who in life wert His affianced bride, and who in death wast received by Him in Paradise, pray for us!
King Olaf said aloud to himself: 'Formerly thou wert the slave of many lusts; now thou hast but one master, and that is God.
King Olaf,' she said, 'what thou now sayest both Hjalte and Ingegerd have told me long ago, but I would not believe that thou wert more than a good and brave knight and noble King.
Thou wert my nurse in many an hour of pain, My comforter in many an hour of sadness; And when my spirit leaped to joy again, Thou wert the one who joyed most in its gladness.
But your wound is a witness, Meeah; and I am one also, when thou wert sick to death; and the old Dervish and his child as well.
Why, they told me thou hadst been killed in battle; then that thou wert sorely wounded, and dying in some fort.
How often hath the old man been kind to thee; how often sent thee medicine when thou wert ill.
I was watching thee silently in the night, Meeah, and thou wert dreaming of her.
I was not harmed but in heart, brother, when he asked me to be his leman when thou wert gone.
We heard thou wert dead, lying on the field by Korla, and some have gone to seek thee there.
Surely thou wert ever careful of me, even when I was a wild boy; and now cares come on me, and warnings of danger which are not to be put aside heedlessly.
See, before the Virgin, to whom thou wert crying, I devote myself to thee; I am thine henceforth.
Whispers me, 'Mary, thou wert therefore choice Of demons for their dwelling-place on earth, Because thou wert pure found and they desired A refuge that should least resemble hell.
Thou wert then as now escaped from Shimei's snare!
She answered him in stormy rage: "If in the joust thou dost engage With such success as I desire, And all thy broken oaths require, Thou wilt not reach Sanlucar's square So proud as when thou last wert there.
I heard thee say That thou wert mine and 'twas to me thy heart was given away.
If thus thou wert born thou well mayst scorn to ope those lips of thine, That out should fly a treacherous lie, to meet a word of mine.
Remember how upon that day thou gavest many a sign Of love and lavished'st the kiss which told me thou wert mine.
And thou wert the meekest man and the greatest that ever ate in hall among ladies.
And thou wert the truest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in rest.
And thou wert the courteousest knight that ever bore shield.
And thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights.
And thou wert the truest friend to thy lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wert" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
