Maybe a parrot had been left the sole survivor after a sack, ye ken, an' Isaac couldna forget the scene.
My lord couldna tak it weel your coming blinking and jinking in, in that fashion.
Had your marriage been a proclaimed and acknowledged action, our stratagem to throw an obstacle into your way thatcouldna be got ower, neither wad nor could hae been practised against ye.
The Deacon there couldna let blatter wi' a hearty oath to save his withered sowl.
He never cared a preen for her, and then when she proved a dirty trollop, he couldna endure her look!
They were ay needing something done, and I couldna even get a spadeful of earth without another pair of hands.
And then him, and my father, and the other lad had things to say that I couldna make much of.
I couldna get them kepit to my mind without troubling somebody.
But I dinna ken--we're baith gey good at single-stick, and it couldna weel be judged.
But I dinna ken; we're baith gey good at single-stick, and itcouldna weel be judged.
I meant ye wrang, couldna I clod ye ower that craig, and wad man ken how ye cam by your end mair than Frank Kennedy?
And then there's the smugglers that they're aye leagued wi', she maybe couldna manage them sae weel.
He wad gie it though, sir, as I tell ye; mair especially if he thought the buyer was a puir man, and couldna stand by a loss.
If shentlemans were seeking ta Red Gregarach," he said, "to be sure they couldna expect to find her without some wee danger.
There's no a burn in the South I dinna ken, and I never cam to the water I couldna ford.
I couldnawish to dee better than just be happit i' the waters o' my ain countryside, when my legs fail and I'm ower auld for the trampin'.
But I never yet cam to the water I couldna ford," says he.
Sir Mooray said I was to see and get a good nurse to tak' charge of the bairn--one as would go abroad; and I telled him he couldna do better than keep ye, when I thocht he was going to fly at me.
Why couldna ye walk like a Christian, and not get in that way?
Nay; he couldna see me, for I was standing close t' th' edge, and he was looking straight on.
And then I heerd Stepaside tell Wilson he must do summat, but what it was I couldna rightly say.
We hated to admit, both of us, that there was anything we couldna do; I'm a wee bit that way inclined still.
Else they'd put up the rent to sic a figure he couldnapay it.
I couldna think of ought but the way the laddies were suffering in France.
Ye can talk to a stranger where ye wouldna and couldna to ane near and dear to ye.
But I couldna ha gone easy, had I known that I maun lose the support of thousands of folk for what I said.
He kens fine that sometimes there'll be those who couldna save, no matter how they tried.
And it filled me wi' rage tae see those who couldna or wouldna understand.
If it had known, it couldna help the life any--" She nodded again.
I feel that He has been walking along my life; I couldna prove it to ye, Marcella.
It would be strange, with such a grip as this, if we couldna squeeze out a pardon for my client.
A' day I've had my dwelling into the inside of a stack of hay, where I couldna see the nebs of my ten fingers; and then two hours of it waiting here for you, and you never coming!
He had something in his hand," she answered, "but I couldna steer it.
So since I couldna bide frae him, Donald brocht me here to this cauld, ill, ootland place, where we bide amang fremit and unco folk that hate us.
She couldna be in Glesca withoot me kennin',' replied Teen confidently.
I wasna in a' the time, but I'm sure that kinder he couldnahae been.
I couldna say, I'm sure,' answered his mother, with a stolid indifference which astonished even him.
He asked me to bear him company and carry his luggage to Leith, and I couldna refuse sic a favour to the braw knight.
Na, na, I should hae been glad to lend a helping and a willing hand to ony practicable plan, but it would be madness to throw away our lives where there couldna be the slightest possibility o' success.
And, although he hadna written to me for some years, I couldna think that ony man could be so wicked as to write words o' falsehood and bind them up in the volume o' everlasting truth.
They couldna imagine a bawbee or a kind word to anybody but themsel's.
You couldnaspeculate as to how Robert Campbell would take a plate o' parritch; he might like them, and he might send them to the Back o' Beyond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couldna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
