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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
fill
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Examples
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Winterfilleth - Could this simply be 'filleth' as in 'grows full?'
Litha (June): the early English calendar Carla 2008
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"This is the deposit of Allah, then thy deposit, [FN#335] till this eunuch cometh to thee; and indeed, O elder, my due to thee is the white hand of favour such as filleth the interval betwixt heaven and earth."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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My favourite psalm is 84, where it says, in verse 6 & 7, Who passing through the valley of Baca, make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
Life to the Full Belinda 2009
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Someone should tell them, 'he who earneth wages filleth a bag with holes'.
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But now, as for thee, O fat of body, thine eating is the feeding of an elephant, and neither much nor little filleth thee.
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Then he raised her veil and discovered a face as it were a Median targe450 or a cluster of pearls: 451 and indeed she was like the full moon, when it filleth on its fourteenth night, accomplished in brilliant beauty.
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'Tis this that filleth me with anxious thought whether thou, O king, seated on the sky, thy heavenly throne, carest at all that my city is destroyed, a prey to the furious fiery blast.
The Trojan Women 2008
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I have quoted the popular saying, βThe son of the quarter filleth not the eye.β i.e. women prefer stranger faces.
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'Tis this that filleth me with anxious thought whether thou, O king, seated on the sky, thy heavenly throne, carest at all that my city is destroyed, a prey to the furious fiery blast.
The Trojan Women 2008
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I had forgotten Him who filleth heaven and earth, β and the heavens and the earth were become one dreary blank to me.
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