would
/wəd/ noun C2- Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
Plural woulds
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“Gently, gently,” said the old man, with a smile; “and by your leave I will use your purse moderately, for they would say, if they saw me buy too many things at a time, that I had been obliged to await your return, in order to be able to purchase them.”
“It would be as easy as to give the Scarecrow brains.”
“Come along,” said the Scarecrow heartily, and Dorothy added that she would be pleased to have his company.
“For,” he said, “if I should get caught in the rain, and rust again, I would need the oil-can badly.”
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