Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me.
In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.
And he said, "Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life, (and there is no matter hid from the king,) then thou thyselfwouldest have set thyself against me.
And he answered, "Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow?
But assuredly there is not much anger in the heart of Achilles; but he is forbearing; for truly, were it not so, O son of Atreus, thou wouldest have insulted now for the last time.
Let it fall rather, though the forke inuade The region of my heart, be Kent vnmannerly, When Lear is mad, what wouldest thou do old man?
I doe not thinke so, since he went into France, I haue beene in continuall practice; I shall winne at the oddes: but thou wouldest not thinke how all heere about my heart: but it is no matter Hor.
Let the King haue the Letters I haue sent, and repaire thou to me with as much hast as thou wouldest flye death.
Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of olde Sacke, and vnbuttoning thee after Supper, and sleeping vpon Benches in the afternoone, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truely, which thou wouldest truly know.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28.
Jesus answered and said to her: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
She thought of the prayer, including every Christian in holy and loving intercession--"I pray not that Thou wouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou wouldest keep them from the evil.
And but if thou do now as I bid thee, if ever I may see thee, I shall slay thee with mine own hands, for thou wouldest for my rich sword see me dead.
Well, said Sir Percivale, what wouldest thou that I did?
And when she asked thee amends and to become her man, and thou saidest thou wouldest not, that was to make thee to believe on her and leave thy baptism.
O God, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations.
O let not our sins now cry against us for vengeance; but hear us thy poor servants begging mercy, and imploring thy help, and that thou wouldest be a defence unto us against the face of the enemy.
Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not: but mine ears hast thou opened.
And, last of all, the picture shows us an irresistible approximation to an unwelcome goal: 'Another shall carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
When thou shalt be old another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
Art thou not more affected with the Prospect of her green Vallies, than thou wouldest be with the Sight of her Person?
Thou wouldest fancy that the whole Nation are Physicians, for the first Question they always ask me, is, how I do: I have this Question put to me above a hundred times a Day.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
By the hand of my friend," said Kay, "often dost thou utter that with thy tongue which thou wouldest not make good with thy deeds.
King Arthur, "now hast thou betrayed me two times, who would have weened that thou that hast been unto me so self and dear, and thou art named a noble knight, and wouldest betray me for the rich sword.
And Don Arias Gonzalo went with his sons upon the wall to see who called for him, and he spake to the knight, saying, Friend, what wouldest thou?
He held Ulysses by the wrist, to stay his entrance; and "Whither wouldest thou go?
Thou boasted before the emperor, that thou wouldestme kill; take all my castles, and my kingdom; and much good should be to thee of that thou desiredest to have.
And if thou wouldest now be my companion, as we shall agree, and my father well avenge, and well avenge thy folk that Uther here killed, and thy marvellous work, that he hence drew.
Look on these features--Thou wouldest have wrung them with despair.
Look on this form--Thou wouldest have prest it in depravity.
Yet methinks thou wouldest do well to wear the tonsure and the gown, that thou mayest in all quarrels or troubles have the right to claim the benefit of clergy, and so escape from the secular arm if it were stretched out against thee.
At the Monasteries thou wouldest receive food and bed, and mayhap an alms to help thee on thy way.
At some hostel they would give thee bed and board, most like, if thou wouldest make them merry by a song; or at some great house, if thou couldst recite a ballad or speak a Latin grace.
I truly think that my brother is another, and there are more whose names thou wouldest not know.
And Levi reproached him, saying, "Thou wouldest not lend me thine axe when I desired it, but I will be better than thou, and will lend thee mine.
And Simeon answered him, saying, "Thou wouldest not lend me thine axe, therefore will I not lend thee mine.
And unless thou do now as I bid thee, if ever I may see thee, I shall slay thee with mine own hands, for thou wouldest for my rich sword see me dead.
Well," said Sir Percivale, "what wouldest thou that I did?
Who would have thought that thou that hast been to me so lief and dear, and that art named a noble knight, wouldest betray me for the riches of the sword.
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
If thou wert in a mirk house one day, and doors and windows shut: if thou wouldest not let the sun come in, who was to blame if the house were mirk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wouldest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
