could
/kəd/ noun C2- Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
Plural coulds
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“Not so much as I could wish, sir: but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”
Elizabeth could not help saying, “It is very much to his credit, I am sure, that you should think so.”
If I were to go through the world, I could not meet with a better.
The ship drew on and had safely passed the strait, which some volcanic shock has made between the Calasareigne and Jaros islands; had doubled Pomègue, and approached the harbor under topsails, jib, and spanker, but so slowly and sedately that the idlers, with that instinct which is the forerunner of evil, asked one another what misfortune could have happened on board.
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