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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
play .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Thou poor old man,” said Halbert, “and can such a vain conceit as this of thy fancied use, reconcile thee to a world where thou playest so poor a part?”
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Thou playest a noble part, maiden; but sickly are the whims of Fate and the goddess.
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Thou playest a noble part, maiden; but sickly are the whims of Fate and the goddess.
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"I will forgive thee thine indiscretion if thou playest while we dance."
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Thou playest with all mobile and immobile things (as with thy toys).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Nor can it be consistent with the condition of love that any thought of life should divert the heart from affection for its mistress: -- Thou, who art the slave of thine own precious self, playest false in the affairs of love.
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THOU LAND OF THE GLAD HAND Thou land of the Glad Hand, whose frequent boast Is of the hordes to whom thou playest host!
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Sweet is the tune, by Pan of Arcady, that thou playest on the harp,
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Voiceful cricket, drunken with drops of dew thou playest thy rustic music that murmurs in the solitude, and perched on the leaf-edges shrillest thy lyre-tune with serrated legs and swart skin.
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Thou dancest and playest with thy feet, and I with my feet have laboured in great pain.
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