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- verb archaic Second person singular simple past and past participle form of
come .
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Examples
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Even thus, vile wretch, thou cam'st to make me partner in an outrage on my father's honour; wherefore I must wash that stain away in running streams, dashing the water into my ears.
Hippolytus 2008
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On me the gods have hurled the curse that dogged thy steps, for thou didst slay thy brother at his hearth ere thou cam'st aboard our fair ship, Argo.
Medea 2008
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On me the gods have hurled the curse that dogged thy steps, for thou didst slay thy brother at his hearth ere thou cam'st aboard our fair ship, Argo.
Medea 2008
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Even thus, vile wretch, thou cam'st to make me partner in an outrage on my father's honour; wherefore I must wash that stain away in running streams, dashing the water into my ears.
Hippolytus 2008
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V-VII, beginning "Thou cam'st in love to my relief."
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976
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Wou'd thou hadst been acting Incest, Murder, Witchcraft, when thou cam'st to pray: Thou hadst in any thing sinn'd less than in this
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_ Why, if he is this avaricious Wretch, how cam'st thou by such
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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I loved thee, maiden, when thou cam'st long since,
Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus
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O thou who cam'st to smile on me at dawn of life's beginning!
Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux 1873-1897 1912
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O thou who cam'st to smile on me at dawn of life's beginning!
The Story of a Soul Lisieux, St Therese of 1912
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