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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple past form of can.
  • verb Alternative spelling of couldst.

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Examples

  • How couldest thou be in Bassorah yesterday and Cairo yesternight and withal awake in Damascus this morning?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • How couldest thou work such work and spill the blood of so many thousand Jinn?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • She understood me and made answer, also by signs, “How couldest thou bring all this evil upon me?” and I rejoined after the same fashion,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Their antiquity always made me reverence them: And how was it possible that thou couldest not, for that reason, if for no other, give them a perusal?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I see that this gentleman is the best match thou ever couldest have had, upon all accounts: his spirit such another impetuous one as thy own; soon taking fire; vindictive; and only differing in this, that the cause he engages in is a just one.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • All pure nature, taking advantage of nature, as nature tends; and so simple my devices, that when they are known, thou, even thou, imaginest thou couldest have thought of the same.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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