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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
burn
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Examples
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Whose Candell burneth cleare and brighte; a wondrous force and might
Leap Year -- Day John 2008
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A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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According to Revelations 21: 8, adulterers and liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.
Chris Kelly: God is My Doorman: Mark Sanford for Non-Christians 2009
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Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death, and the tongue then burneth fiercely, and the parched throat is inflamed.
Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009
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Most famous of course is the classic heavy duty "fire and brimstone" text from Revelations: "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."
Old English gods and myths: Hell Carla 2009
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Revelation 21: 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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When he heard my words, he repeated these verses: — Dear friend, ask not what burneth in my breast,
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So he sleepeth and wotteth not whither she goeth, nor what she doeth; but we know that after giving him the drugged wine, she donneth her richest raiment and perfumeth herself and then she fareth out from him to be away till break of day; then she cometh to him, and burneth a pastile under his nose and he awaketh from his deathlike sleep.
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If thou have been oppressed, we will end thine oppression, and if thou be in debt, we will pay thy debt; for of a truth my heart burneth to see thee, since I first set eyes on thee.
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On every side my heart is in despair; nor is there any help for my pain; but it burneth ever thus.
The Argonautica 2008
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