may'st

• “The guests are met, the feast is set: may'st hear the merry din - and the celebrated performance of the stage adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner began.”

  EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT 2/5: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar

• “Pay to the laws of society what retribution they require for their violation – and if suffering should lead to contrition, and seclusion from the world bring thee back to rectitude, then thou may'st find again thy father”

  Camilla

• “Mistress, thou may'st condemn the mischief I have done, for sorrow's sting o'ermasters thy judgment; yet can I answer thee in face of this, if thou wilt hear.”

  Hippolytus

• “Why so eager for the flowing spring, when hard by these towers stands a hill well watered, whence thou may'st freely draw?”

  Hippolytus

• “Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “They will return across the lake, scale the cliffs there and pursue thee, but thou may'st escape them if thou be'st swift.”

  The Moon of Skulls

• “Then, when thou know'st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may'st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first.”

  The Annotated Wheel

• “Des, I find it hard to accept George Henry Needler as a purveyor of actual English when he turns out lines like: "Me may'st thou gladly welcome / with messengers high meed.”

  languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.

• “Bend thy thoughts on the Sky, And in midst of prosperity, know thou may'st die.”

  Gravity's Rainbow

• “Be thou who thou may'st, my son thou canst not be.”

  Roumania Past and Present

Show 10 more examples...