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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cook .
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Examples
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Quoth Dalilah, “If he be indeed your cousin, he knoweth what you sought of him yesternight239 and how many dishes he cooketh every day.”
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So he said, “Give those fish to the stranger slave girl who now cooketh for us,” meaning the bond maiden whom the King of Roum had sent to him only three days before, so that he had not yet made trial of her talents in the dressing of meat.
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Yudhishthira answered, -- 'O amphibious creature, a man who cooketh in his own house, on the fifth or the sixth part of the day, with scanty vegetables, but who is not in debt and who stirreth not from home, is truly happy.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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His life is vain who hath no son; and his also who is out of pale of virtue: and his too who liveth on the food of other; and, lastly, his who cooketh for himself without giving therefrom unto the Pitris, the gods, and the guests, and who eateth of it before these all.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Cooking is a matter of approbation and emulation, and he who cooketh unto himself alone is on the road to dyspepsia.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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Cooking is a matter of approbation and emulation, and he who cooketh unto himself alone is on the road to dyspepsia.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Quoth Dalilah, "If he be indeed your cousin, he knoweth what you sought of him yesternight [FN#239] and how many dishes he cooketh every day."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"Give those fish to the stranger slave girl who now cooketh for us," meaning the bond maiden whom the King of Roum had sent to him only three days before, so that he had not yet made trial of her talents in the dressing of meat.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"No, woman," speaketh the man, " I cannot worship today, for mine brother Cletis, needeth me to findeth anhydrous ammonia for the medicine crystals he cooketh.
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