usedst to

Definitions

second-person singular simple past indicative of use to

archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular

Examples

“But how I excurſe!—Yet thou uſedſt to ſay, thou likedſt my excurſions. If thou doſt, thou’lt have⟳ enow of them: For I never had a ſubject I ſo much adored; […]”

““[…] Shall I go and call⟳ Mr. Ebenezer, the Methodist preacher?” “No, no, Mary, by no means. I have⟳ often heard him preach, but I never found peace to my soul, I always came away with a heart as heavy and as cold as a stone.” “How so? Thou usedst to call⟳ him a wonderful man.””

“Well, Liberty, if that’s your theme, you will not blame⟳ me when I dream⟳ of days to come⟳ when you’ll regain⟳ your old, long-lost, but loved refrain. At any rate, the song I raise⟳ is mindful of those sterner lays when a stanch bard could gladly come⟳ to you nor snivel like⟳ a bum. Not as thou art I sing⟳ to thee, but as the gal thou usedst to be!”

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