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  • Couldst thou persuade one of those who have charge of cars and steeds to furnish us with a chariot?

    Helen 2008

  • Couldst thou have looked towards yon sun-god's four-horsed car and turned the light of thine eyes on these corpses, it would have been agony to thee.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Couldst thou persuade one of those who have charge of cars and steeds to furnish us with a chariot?

    Helen 2008

  • Couldst thou have looked towards yon sun-god's four-horsed car and turned the light of thine eyes on these corpses, it would have been agony to thee.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Couldst thou render unto me a roasted cake of hot minced-meat, which is shrouded in melted milk curd, of which is blanketed with a leaf of lettuce, sliced tomatoes and onions, of which is encapsulated by both heels of the loaf of thinly sliced bread?”

    CANST THINE HATH MILK CURD AND MINCED BEEF SANDWHICH? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Couldst thou, or could I, with all our boisterous bravery, and offensive false courage, act thus? —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment for these sinners but bearding them?

    Don Quixote 2002

  • [288] Couldst thou set thy heart upon the increase of riches, wert thou acquainted that God intends instantly to make "silver as stones, and cedars as sycamores," [289] -- though not for plenty, yet for value?

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Couldst thou, by whose gifts she was so inspired, despise and disregard the tears of such a one without coming to her aid -- those tears by which she entreated thee, not for gold or silver, and not for any changing or fleeting good, but for the salvation of the soul of her son?

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • Couldst thou not make them that haue bene, and that are, and that shal be, at once, that thou mayst shew thy iudgement the quicker?

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

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