cou'dn't

That's part of the reason I cou'dn't get past the first episode of Mad Men.

On watching the Hey Dad Scandal evolve girliejones 2010

I told about my years in the fleet Marines I tried but cou'dn't really explain what I was doing on the boat.

Dread Brass Shadows Cook, Glen 1990

Very well -- I cou'dn't say or unsay this, you know; so I directly gets leave of my lord to come myself, and stare about; for thinks I, if I _am_ made a fool of, I'm only where I was, you know.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

_ Yes, my lady -- I say [_To_ EVERGREEN.] cou'dn't you give me a hint of the way he had --

Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801

_ I be zorry for that too -- I be, indeed, zur, but if corn wou'dn't grow I cou'dn't help it; it wer'n't poison'd by the hand that zow'd it.

Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801

_ Indeed, I cou'dn't help his coming; and he made me come with him.

John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts George Colman 1799

Where had you been last Night, you drunken Dog, that you cou'dn't take care of me when I was drunk.

The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704

You know I love the man of your heart as much as you do, for his generosity to your cousin Andrew — and cou'dn't we contrive now to discard the Doctor and recommend him?

Turn out! A musical farce, in two acts Matthew Peter 1812

'em, you cou'dn't all of you get water to wash your hands, but wou'd be as poor as so many Church-Mice.

The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women Anonymous

Ogh! he has a fine spirit of his own, but it's I that can match him: 'twould be a poor case if a man like me cou'dn't match a horse any way, let alone a mare, which this is, or it never would be so vicious. "

Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808