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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
breath
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Examples
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I understand, that thou breathest nothing but revenge against me, for treating thee with so much freedom; and against the cursed woman and her infernal crew.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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English ground after the space I have allotted thee, thou diest — or if thou breathest aught that can attaint the honour of my house, by Saint
Ivanhoe 2004
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Flat obedience to thy own flat commands, this is all thou breathest.
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"Thanking God that thou still breathest," I finished in awe.
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Thy existence is tenfold redoubled, thy pulse is beating as when thou breathest the atmosphere of high mountains.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Spring flowers are forever blooming in our hearts as thou breathest upon them, and age is but a name for thy immortal youth, O friend of dreamy hours and tender reveries. '
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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Gospel and behold! thou makest out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it becometh a bird by
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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Thou breathest the breath of life for ever and ever.
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Thou breathest forth the air that is in thy throat into the nostrils of men; divine is that thing whereon they live.
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If thou art found on English ground after the space I have allotted thee, thou diest --- or if thou breathest aught that can attaint the honour of my house, by Saint George! not the altar itself shall be a sanctuary.
Ivanhoe 1892
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