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- verb Obsolete form of
would .
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Examples
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"Can I ever forget," he wrote Adam Smith, "that it is the very same Species, that wou'd scarce show me common Civilities a very few Years ago at Edinburgh, who now receive me with such applause in Paris?"
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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"I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter them any farther."
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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"Can I ever forget," he wrote Adam Smith, "that it is the very same Species, that wou'd scarce show me common Civilities a very few Years ago at Edinburgh, who now receive me with such applause in Paris?"
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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"I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter them any farther."
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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Sometimes I wou'd repel her Insinuations; and sometimes again accept her Caresses; as appears by the following Invocation.
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In the mean time my Pen wou'd discharge itself of one sort of Scribble or other; and I think here is one appears:
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Apothecaries fil'd amongst those of the Doctors: And this being in particular one of my Sex, my Muse wou'd needs have a Finger in the
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Mildness and Sweetness, to reclaim him: That he having now sow'd his wild Oats, (according to the Proverb) wou'd see his Folly; and finding there is nothing to be reap'd but Noise, Vanity, and Disgrace, in all Probability, wou'd apply himself to another Way of Living; especially having made the Proposal to his Father of settling with a Person of his own choosing, where no Interest nor Family-Necessity had any Hand in the
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Then wou'd she remark upon, and recite the Villainies of those Times, 'till Faintness call'd her Spirits to some reviving Slumbers.
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This is a chargeable Soup, said the Lady, but one wou'd not stick at
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