Then ye'll can tell her that I recommended it; that'll set her to the laughing; and I wouldna wonder but what that was the next best.
There's something no' right with the man James, and I wouldna wonder but what Alan Breck would give an eye to him this day.
Nae doubt that's your opinion," said he; "but I wouldna be the least surprised if they were hunkering this wood.
It wouldnabe greatly to my taste; and forbye that, I see reasons against it.
Alan's button here or Alan's button there, the four quarters of Alan wouldna bribe me further in.
Firstly, because I havena got the courage andwouldna daur; and secondly, because I am a man of so much penetration and would see ye damned first.
But it wouldna be a pleasant diversion in this weather," he remarked, with a shudder.
Miss Caprice an' me wouldna suit on the same programme," was the worthy diplomatist's excuse.
I daursay you think I was keeking, but if I was I stoppit it when the piano stoppit; it was a hard thing to me to do, and it would hae been an easy thing no to do, but I wouldna spy upon Elspeth in her great hour.
I never made pretence that I wanted you, except because she wouldna come without you.
I wouldna wonder but one might catch the scarlet fever gin he werena carefu', so I just took a change of names for a bit while.
He wouldna tak' injustice himsel', not even from a Roman magistrate.
I wouldna name God, if I was you," said McNab scornfully.
They wouldna gie the smoke aff their porridge--but I'll tell you the differ o' them.
They turn up their lang noses, and the palms o' their greedy hands at the like o' you and me, but there isna a lady or a gentleman at this table, that wouldna scorn the dirty things they did here.
And Thomas said he had not heard a mair sound observe for some time, and that, if I held to that doctrine in the poopit, it wouldna be lang till I would work a change.
They say murder wouldna hide if ye could put a' the tokens o't beneath North Berwick Law.
I wouldna set my face to a lee for a' his revenues.
I dinna deny but what a bonny face fell takes me, but Mr. Dishart wouldna gie a blade o' grass for't.
There's no blood in you for my knife, and your neck wouldna twist.
If I were a man," she exclaimed, addressing the people, "I wouldna let myself be catched like a mouse in a trap.
If they would speak I wouldna complain, for I'm nat'rally the sociablest man in Thrums.
He wouldna want the women o' the congregation to ken he was promised till after they had voted for him.
But I wouldna wonder," he shouted, "though we had rain afore morning.
At this Babbie smiled gratefully to him, and then both laughed, for they had heard Nanny remarking to the kettle, "But I wouldna hae been nane angry if she had telled Enoch that the minister was to take his tea here.
I wouldna let you near her the nicht though you gaed on your knees to me.
Dominie, I think she began to say that when the minister came hame he wouldna accept my resignation, but I paid no heed to her.
I could hae ta'en her on my knee at that minute, but the bairns was there, and so it wouldna hae dune.
I wouldna like to sit in a kirk whaur they daurna sing a paraphrase.
And I wouldna turn them oot; wouldna do it for wurl’s, because I like fair play.
I wouldna turn ye oot, no for onything, because I like fair play.
If it was not offeecial, there's few letter-carriers that wouldna need to hae iron hoops on their heids to keep their brains from burstin' on the day efter New Year.
They wouldna be sending all over the country such blessed news if it was na true.
I could keep ye on board for the whole voyage,' he went on, 'but ye wouldna be permitted to land.
I've to keep my views to mysel', for thae young lads are all drucken-daft with their wee books about Cawpital and Collectivism and a wheen long senseless words I wouldna fyle my tongue with.
There's not yin in a thousand that wouldnasweat himself blind to beat the Germans.
When Luckie Macrobie's sweet milk wouldna erne, The reason was clear--she bewitched the concern.
And he whispered words into Sibyl's ear, Which sweetly unto her came, That he wouldna care tho' Lillyfair Were dooked in Ballogie dam.
There's nothing I wouldna do to pleasure ye, Cornel," taking a step further back.
I wouldna say but what I would go; but what would the folk say to hear of Cornel Mortimer with an auld silly woman at his heels?
There is both pluck and a spirit o' contradiction in the callant, and I wouldna be in the least surprised if he preferred the wuddy.
Simon, "ye surely wouldna be speaking o' sic a thing as hanging to an auld man like me.
I wouldna lose the love for the sorrow that may lie in its heart.
I should like to see her again, whether or no, if she wouldna be displeased with me for going," said Seth.
Eh, I wouldna mind ha'in a daughter like that; but nobody ne'er marries them as is good for aught.
A strappin' young carpenter as is a ready-made Methody, like Seth, wouldna be a bad match for her.
I wouldna mind ha'in ye for a daughter, for ye wouldnaspend the lad's wage i' fine clothes an' waste.
Come now, you canna draw back; you said once as women wouldna ha' been a bad invention if they'd all been like Dinah.
Lisbeth sat down again in the chair opposite to him, as she said: "But she wouldna think well if thee wastna so contrairy.
I wouldna have her vexed or distresst for siller, or put out of her ordinar.
If they would but do it quick, I wouldna stand upon the honour of the thing," he said to himself.
Nae, I wouldnarob a bird's nest even for you, Annie.
I wish I had let the coo gang withoot her supper; then I wouldna hae seen Donald.
Sae dry your tears, that is a wee man; grandfaither wouldna like ye to greet sae sairly.
If ye had minded the gude Ward ye wouldna hae let the sun go down on your wrath; ye would hae thought yoursel about laying the matter before your uncle.
I wouldna wonder to see her a daughter some day, wifie.
I dinna want a lass frae the toun, wha wouldna ken, perhaps, whether the dairy was clean or no, and that couldna mak butter nor cheese fit to gang to the market.
He wouldna hae to wark sae hard," said the mother.
But, Mr. Lindsay, I hae seen the time when I wouldna hae taen sic a gift.
If our sons could do better for themselves than we can do for them, I wouldna haud them back.
But I think we wouldna need the bit and bridle sae often if we would tak God's gifts without forgetting wha sent them.
God has forgien me, but he wouldna do it until I had forgien you.
Weel, Wullie, I wouldna mind the lass gaen to service but for the way it has turned oot wi' Jamie.
Ye wouldna have had sae saft an auld age without the gear that came of my disappointment.
But he says everybody kens that, though Jacob is a greedy man, he is but a poor creature, and wouldna dare to harm you, because all Gershom would cry out against him if he were to do his will.
As to the churning, if it could be done by the running water, wouldna that be a fine help?
And, Davie, the loss of Ythan even wouldna mean that to grandfather.
I wouldna say that grandfather himself is not among the number.
Of course I wouldna speak to grannie, or to any one else but you.
If they bin gone to the good place they wouldna want to come back, and if they bin gone to the tother place they wouldna be let to.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wouldna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
