Having checked it I can also offer the following "methought" which is also acceptable. From Wordnik.com. [Brown's Reputation is Unravelling] Reference
And now, "methought," I'll take a walk; the evening is fresh, and not very chill. ". From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Hark! from the doors, my son, methought there came. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
Dearest; and there, methought -- charm of my charms!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
And plunge against its bonds -- methought it yearned. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917] Reference
Sweet murmurings, methought the shrill-tongued thrush. From Wordnik.com. [For Auld Lang Syne] Reference
But, methought, as I watch'd thee to-day slowly treading. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
Scarcely methought could lie cause to desert me therein. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
And methought that beauty and terror are only one, not two. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Till methought it seem'd lost in the roll of the white seas. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
And looked like stainless marble; a touch methought would soil. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850] Reference
No, indeed; methought the Clouds were only fog, dew and vapour. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Door, and his Tale of a Puppy, had the Face of a Lye, methought. From Wordnik.com. [The Busie Body] Reference
Then methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Then methought something strange followed, methought he called Eyjolf. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
Oh, methought, this life is but a slumber, in comparison of that above. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Still I have hopes; methought she received my confession with pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
Shield myself then I did not, and methought then I knew not what shielded me. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
The tripe, salt-fish, and plantains were, methought, much as at other places. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
A sound thrilled through that lengthening host! methought the vault was closed. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832] Reference
Where I lay in slumber, and I gan for to sleep, methought that in the welkin came. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
In obedience to him, methought I laid it on my shoulders, and carried it some way. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
"It must be fancy, though, and yet, methought I saw him stop and then pass on again.". From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
Near mine own ear did a zealot shout until methought the top of my skull was tumbling in. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
I saw him too, sister, and with an air that shone, methought, like rays about his person. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
Him who came to call sinners to repentance; and methought his eye grew lighter than it was. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829] Reference
The deacon Pomponius methought, knocked very hard at the prison-door, which I opened to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
And then he approached still nearer, and methought he was about to clamber into her chamber. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
"Yea, by putting it in the border of his cloak where methought he would find it on the morrow.". From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
I marvelled how it might last; for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for littleness. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
'Yet methought but now I heard the rattle of a bridle in the distance, as if a steed stood in armour.'. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Being little desirous of sleep, I sat down; and as I read, methought I saw the name of Mahoud in the book. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Saw I all manner of mankind from infants to giants, black, brown, red and Roman, and of every kind methought. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
And in the night as she lay beside me in her bed, methought I heard a moan that traveled not far from the heart where it was born. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
So when I had said "yes," methought we were once more flying through the air, until again he set me on my feet, and bid me look down. From Wordnik.com. [The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes] Reference
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