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English
Verb
'ld
- Contraction of would.
- Synonym: 'd
1599 (first performance), B. I. , The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. , London: ">…] for William Holme, , published 1600, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, signature D, verso:Gods pretious, come avvay man, vvhat do you mean? and you knevv him as I do, you’ld ſhun him, as you’ld do the plague?
1915, Rupert Brooke, Lithuania: A Drama in One Act (Stewart Kidd Modern Plays), Cincinnati, Oh.: Stewart Kidd Company , →OCLC, page 8:Who’d want anything here, to rob us? And is it likely any one ’ld want me? And Anna—Anna ’ld give them more than they came for. She’s stronger than most men.
1932, Alec Waugh, “The Slave-trader”, in No Quarter, London, : Cassell and Company, , →OCLC, page 125:There was no risk, he said. He liked life as much as anyone. If there were any risk he’ld be the first to dodge it.
1966, John Betjeman, “Narcissus”, in High and Low, London: John Murray, , →OCLC, section “Light and Dark”, page 58:We’ld go for walks, we bosom boyfriends would / (For Bobby’s watching sisters drove us mad), / And when we just did nothing we were good, / But when we touched each other we were bad.