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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
break .
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Examples
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“Allah upon thee,” cried I, “hold thy tongue with me, for thou breakest my liver in pieces.”
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When the damsel saw him she sprang to her feet and, taking firm stand on the bank of the stream, whose breadth was six ells, the normal cubits, made one bound and landed clear on the farther side,169 where she turned and cried out with a loud voice, Who art thou, O thou fellow, that breakest in upon our privacy and pastime, and that too hanger in hand as if charging a host?
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And beware how in making the portraiture, thou breakest the pattern.
The Essays 2007
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Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
Psalms 48. 1999
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968
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Or, (if thou breakest thy pledge), O king, thou mayst free thyself from this sin by offering good savoury food to a quiet bull carrying sacred burdens.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Ah me, the pity of thee, O boy! if in any wise thou breakest the grim bar of fate, thou shalt be Marcellus.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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If therfor thow dost consider the commandement which thou breakest/it is of God: If the matier/it is aganist the furst table and therfore thys synne is the more heynus and weightie.
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For then thou wouldst have been less great, not less good: whereas now if thou breakest faith with God
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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Or, (if thou breakest thy pledge), O king, thou mayst free thyself from this sin by offering good savoury food to a quiet bull carrying sacred burdens.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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