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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
can .
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Examples
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Authorised Version, 'If thou canst _believe_' -- throwing, as it were, the responsibility on the man -- but it is a quotation of the father's own word, 'If Thou _canst_,' as if He waved it aside with superb recognition of its utter unfitness to the present case.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868
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What a flood of remembrances must then have rushed over the penitent Peter! how he must have thought to himself, 'So soon, so soon is the "canst not" changed into a _canst_!
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868
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491 But one of the merchants said to him, Know thou, O my son, that the value of this kerchief is an hundred dinars at most and that to an eager purchaser, and if this Frank pay thee down a thousand for it, thy profit will be nine hundred dinars, and what gain canst thou desire greater than this gain?
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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Still thou canst listen to me, and grant me thy compassion.
Chapter 10 2010
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Well, if he canst be bothered to deal with Loki, then why should I?
Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject Robert Brenner 2011
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Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
2009 » October 2009
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Well, if he canst be bothered to deal with Loki, then why should I?
Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject Robert Brenner 2011
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Splendors thou canst not reach; and then half angry,
The Lake of Geneva 2010
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