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Example sentences for "wouldst thou"

  • What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food, Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road?

  • Wouldst thou have a man trumpet his own praises?

  • Wouldst thou believe it, child--he is a prisoner in the castle of Dublin!

  • And if I would not forgive him, wouldst Thou leave me?

  • But if I were heir to the throne, wouldst Thou come to me?

  • Who knows, wouldst Thou be sorry to work for me?

  • Wouldst thou make me think her beauty, Proud and gentle though it be, Which might soar e'en like the heron To the sovereign sun itself, Could descend with coward pinions At a lowly falcon's call?

  • Let Bunyan speak for his own book:-- "Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep?

  • Or wouldst thou in a moment laugh and weep?

  • Wouldst thou, like a perfidious tyrant, thus spoil and lay waste my master's kingdom?

  • Wouldst thou be content to be found with thy genitories full in the day of judgment?

  • Wouldst thou everlastingly leave it there, or wouldst thou pluck it out with thy grinders?

  • And if so be it was preordinated for thee, wouldst thou be so impious as not to acquiesce in thy destiny?

  • I had a dream last night, and yet--wouldst thou believe it?

  • Wouldst thou have me more ignorant than my ancestry?

  • If the day should come when ruin bursts upon us, wouldst thou, Oneiza, tender nurtured as thou art, be prepared to leave all, and follow thy husband into the depths of the unknown wilderness?

  • Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep?

  • Wouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly?

  • Wouldst thou, that thou be recompensed, and I Sit meekly down, defrauded of my due?

  • Or wouldst thou yet a virgin, one, by right Another's claim, but made by force thine own?

  • Wouldst thou lure me, say, To some fair city of Mæonian name Or Phrygian, more remote from Sparta still?

  • Should I present thee with a pumpkin, wouldst thou desire to count the seeds?

  • For should my dreaming work a spell to soothe My troubled soul, wouldst thou deny me dreams?

  • Wouldst thou have a daisy blossom upon a thistle?

  • Wouldst thou strike a man when he is down?

  • Wouldst thou at last with Washington engage, Sad object of his pity, not his rage?

  • Or wouldst thou see A man in the clouds, and hear him speak to thee?

  • Wouldst thou do so, Ardaric, if thou wert a Roman?

  • And wouldst thou now betray him; wouldst thou make his life miserable who always sought thy welfare?

  • And if thou hast put thyself in MY way, what proof of me wouldst thou have?

  • Wouldst thou go into isolation, my brother?

  • Now do I die and disappear,' wouldst thou say, 'and in a moment I am nothing.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wouldst thou" 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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