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Example sentences for "thou mayst"

  • Enter the vestibule, O my lady, so thou mayst drink.

  • Thus unto thee have I set forth my case; consider well My words, so thou mayst guided be aright by their intent.

  • So he fled from him and seeking one of the sovrans, said to him, "I come to thee and lay hold upon thy skirts and take refuge with thee, so thou mayst help me against my foe.

  • O my lord, these are sandals for the treading of thy feet, so thou mayst wend to the wardrobe.

  • Let me kill him with beating;" but quoth they, "Thou mayst no ways do that.

  • The man is my brother, O stranger, and presently, if thou wilt, thou mayst be eating at the same board with him.

  • Or if thou wilt, thou mayst go thy ways unhurt into the wood.

  • Since, young as thou mayst be, thou art our War-leader, and doubtless shalt so be after the Folk-mote hath been holden.

  • Thy nailes blak if thou mayst see, Voide it awey deliverly, And kembe thyn heed right Iolily.

  • Shouldst thou (at any time) be hard pressed, thou mayst discharge it.

  • In the order of creation, thou mayst, in a former birth, have been begotten by this pigeon.

  • Therefore, give me back my Vami steeds, so thou mayst be able to protect thy life.

  • And when all thy weapons have been completely baffled, thou mayst hurl it.

  • And as for my service, thou mayst need it; for indeed I deem thee not so safe as thou deemest thyself in this Burg.

  • Thou mayst then, O son of Kunti, practise all the other modes of life (that come afterwards).

  • Having O Bharata, earned and enjoyed religious merit and wealth and pleasure for some time with thy brothers, thou mayst then, O king, retire into the woods.

  • Discarding desire and enjoyment, thou mayst succeed in liberating thyself from false speech.

  • Do that voluntarily then which thou canst do, and must do by compulsion; thou mayst refrain if thou wilt, and master thine affections.

  • Thou art lame of body, deformed to the eye, yet this hinders not but that thou mayst be a good, a wise, upright, honest man.

  • Thou mayst do it; Est in nobis assuescere (as Plutarch saith), we may frame ourselves as we will.

  • Needs must I pluck out thy sound eye and cut off thy whole leg, so thou mayst become a blind cripple and I be quit of thee.

  • Thou mayst be sure Edgar will never come near Atheling till God visits thee and gives thee a heart like His own to love thy son.

  • Thou mayst talk to my men, if they will be bothered with thee.

  • Thou mayst smile, but thou shalt rue the day when Count Rodolpho asked and was refused.

  • Thou mayst fly in safety, and none ever know the stain upon thy name.

  • Thou mayst add to thy guilt the design of the assassin, but for Rome I would dare greater danger.

  • Senator of Rome, thou mayst envy my last hour--men like Walter de Montreal perish not unavenged.

  • Now, Memmius, How nature of iron discovered was, thou mayst Of thine own self divine.

  • France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, A chafed lion by the mortal paw, A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.

  • Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee; I will instruct my sorrows to be proud, For grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

  • And if thou please, Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think I come one way of the Plantagenets.

  • Vain is that excuse; thou canst escape: thy mind is responsible for wrong: Vain that murmur; thou mayst live: thy soul is debtor for the right.

  • Thou mayst know if it be well with a man,--loveth he gaiety or solitude?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thou mayst" 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:
    thou also; thou believest; thou comest; thou didst; thou diest; thou doest; thou exalted; thou only; thou refuse; thou seest; thou whose; thou wouldst; though afraid; though from; though late; though not; though quite; though seeking; though somewhat; thought more; thought transference; thousand generations; thousand things; thousand times; thousands upon; was afraid