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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lurk .
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Examples
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Doubt not but there lurketh under it some hid property and occult virtue known to very few in the world.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Doubt not but there lurketh under it some hid property and occult virtue known to very few in the world.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Pure is his eye, and no loathing lurketh about his mouth.
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That very fire, when brought out by friction, consumeth by its energy not only the wood in which it lurketh, but also an entire forest and many other things.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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It lurketh in wood and never consumeth it till it is ignited by others.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Sometimes it lurketh under an odd Similitude: Sometimes it is lodged in a sly Question, in a smart Answer, in a quirkish
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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In the myddle mountayne within the center thereof, and open mouth of the same, there lurketh inuisibly a deadly deuouring olde Dragon, hee is vtter destruction to some, and others are not hurte to death by him.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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If thou usurpest and ascribest to thyself any of the gifts of God, and if thou desirest to be held in honour of men on account of any interior or exterior grace, there lurketh in thee great pride.
Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois 1506-1566 1903
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But he is overcome of the weasel; and men bring the weasel to the cockatrice's den, where he lurketh and is hid.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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In peril the lion is most gentle and noble, for when he is pursued with hounds and with hunters, the lion lurketh not nor hideth himself, but sitteth in fields where he may be seen, and arrayeth himself to defence.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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