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  • The offer was for a discounted anorak (seriously) and somebody thought it a wizard wheeze to dress the Quaker up in it and put a speech bubble from him saying "Two quid less than thou'dst pay in a shop".

    Doing Porridge Peter Ashley 2008

  • And she, hearing her captors 'words took her robe and tore it open from the shoulder to the waist, displaying a breast and bosom fair as a statue's; then sinking on her knee, one word she spake more piteous than all the rest, "Young prince, if 'tis my breast thou'dst strike, lo! here it is, strike home! or if at my neck thy sword thou'lt aim, behold! that neck is bared."

    Hecuba 2008

  • And she, hearing her captors 'words took her robe and tore it open from the shoulder to the waist, displaying a breast and bosom fair as a statue's; then sinking on her knee, one word she spake more piteous than all the rest, "Young prince, if 'tis my breast thou'dst strike, lo! here it is, strike home! or if at my neck thy sword thou'lt aim, behold! that neck is bared."

    Hecuba 2008

  • I see thou really knowest not, and thou'dst better.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • I see thou really knowest not, and thou'dst better.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • "I do believe, Master Butter, that thou'dst pity the Devil's wife in childbirth."

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

  • 'I should ha' thought thou'dst had time enough, lad, 'said Meshach.

    Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

  • 'But that,' the dying man continued with a frown -- 'that was afore thou'dst taken up with these socialistic doctrines o' thine.

    Tales of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Janice, indignantly, "though thou wouldst not believe me; and but for me thou'dst still be a prisoner."

    Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

  • Then to the dust again returnedst and wast dead, As 'twere from out the dust, indeed, thou'dst never stirred.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

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  • thou wouldst

    December 18, 2017