was
/wəz/ verb A1- Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural. · There was three of them there.
Verb forms
- Base form
- was
- He/she/it
- wases
- Past
- wassed
- Past participle
- wassed
- -ing form
- wassing
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No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
“He was unable to write, sir.
“How could that bring me into trouble, sir?” asked Dantès; “for I did not even know of what I was the bearer; and the emperor merely made such inquiries as he would of the first comer.
It was Captain Leclere who gave orders for this delay.”
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