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- verb Obsolete spelling of
could .
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Examples
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Re Mike gabriel: I know there is something in early early development that coulde be hand-drawn.
At the Big Diz Steve Hulett 2008
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Maybe you coulde show that Mark Watson thinks everything's against him or that no one cares about HIM, but that's not how typical 16 year olds operate.
HH Com 406 Miss Snark 2006
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Maybe you coulde show that Mark Watson thinks everything's against him or that no one cares about HIM, but that's not how typical 16 year olds operate.
HH Com 406 Miss Snark 2006
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And the rest of their weapons coulde by no meanes hurt them.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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But they compelled vs to drink so much, that in regard of our customary diet, wee coulde by no means endure it.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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God, and voyde of all earthly corruption: had there no sepulchre in very diede, for that he being a spirituall body conceiued by the breathe of the holy ghost coulde not suffre, but should come againe to be iudge of the Gentiles: This saieth Segonius, and many other thinges sounding to like effecte: whiche the Mahometeines are wonte to throwe out against the Christians, bothe foolisshely and wickedly.
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Husband, which she had a more covetous intent to keepe, questionlesse, not caring how many like lustfull matches shee coulde make, to be so liberally rewarded, if this had succeeded to her minde: whereas he shewed himselfe wise and discreete, in paying nothing for his pleasure, and requiting a covetous queane in her kinde.
The Decameron 2004
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For why shoulde he elles haue so raked it vp in the ashes, and forbidden it to be examined: so that the people coulde neuer come to knowledge what maner of thinge it is that thei beleue in.
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Neuerthelesse for this time you must sende them as you may get them: if you coulde finde the meanes that the haire might bee clipped off them, they woulde not take so much roome in the shippes as they doe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Northwardes, to seeke if we could finde any way cleare to passe to the Eastward, but the further we went that way, the more and thicker was the ice, so that we coulde goe no further.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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