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Example sentences for "would that"

Then he sighed and spake thus to his heart: "Would that I were wiser!

Would that I were wise from the very heart, like my serpent!

Your love to woman, and woman's love to man--ah, would that it were sympathy for suffering and veiled deities!

Would that ye were perfect--at least as animals!

Would that ye could not endure it with any kind of near ones, or their neighbours; then would ye have to create your friend and his overflowing heart out of yourselves.

Would that I could blind their staring eyes with lightning!

Would that kneeling I could lay it at her feet!

Would that I could answer you, duchess, but God in heaven knows that I was ignorant of her departure, until I learned it from yourself!

I would that love, for me, were but the episode of the hour!

Would that I could breathe poison into the veins of yonder staring menials at the door!

One might have imagined that an ocean washed their base, and I would that it really had been so, but a very different hue spread between them and the distant horizon than the deep blue of the sea.

All I can say is, Would that I had discovered such a feature, for I could then have done more upon its waters tenfold, than I was enabled to accomplish in the gloomy and burning deserts over which I wandered during more than thirteen months.

Would that he were still alive, how it grieves me that I have suffered him to be killed!

Would that I were a thousand feet beneath the earth so as not to hear that!

I would that I had never left my abbey cell.

I would that we were upon the far side of Ebro again, for there is neither honor nor profit to be gained here.

And yet I would that he would leave the folk alone.

But it is time for supper, and I would that my men were returned that we might make ready a meal.

Would that I had but the third part of this wealth of mine, and that they who perished at Troy were alive again!

Would that I had died that day when many a spear was cast by the men of Troy over the dead Achilles.

Would that I might always have the heart (desire) of chasing butterflies!

I would that I might always be able to find pleasure in simple things, like a happy child.

I would that it had been my soul and not my boy's!

I thank thee a thousand times, and I will add that thou art a good and honest man, and I put my hand upon my heart and swear that I would that I could say thee "yea".

So be it: we have had our time, but I would that in it I had seen some more such fights as yesterday's.

I would that I had been born of thy race.

Ah, Ghek, would that we had the great warships of Gathol or of Helium to pour their merciless fire into the streets of Manator while U-Thor marched to the palace over the corpses of the slain.

I would that I might dissuade the friend of my friend O-Zar from such madness.

I would that I might thanke you, as, as, you call me Glo.

And heere my Mistris: Would that he were gone.

Good my mother peace, I would that I were low laid in my graue, I am not worth this coyle that's made for me Qu.

And now I would that we were well out of the Burg and in the merry greenwood again, and it repents me that I brought thee hither.

Would that he might return and tell Of his mysterious Company!

Ah, would that I had never been The lover of the Fairy Queen.

Or would that I again might be Asleep below the Eildon Tree, And see her ride the forest way As on that morning of the May!

It is all for a rose That I gave her not, And I would that it grew In the garden plot, And I would the rose-tree Were still to set, That my love Marie Might love me yet!

Would that I might have told her more of Him!

Oh, I would that my mother might know how near our Lord can be, even in this desert!

O my brethren," answered Heraklas with a sob, "would that I could save you!

Would that I had the faith in God that I ought to have!

Oh," he muttered, "would that I could die a thousand deaths to prevent a scene like that!

Would that I could have died in Hilland's place!

The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.

Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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