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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
proffer .
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Examples
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And he maketh a ruthful noise and ghastful, when one proffereth to fight with another: and unneth is hurt when he is thrown down off an high place.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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And he maketh a ruthful noise and ghastful, when one proffereth to fight with another: and unneth is hurt when he is thrown down off an high place.
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And this Sir Damas, our master is as evil beloved, for he is without mercy, and he is a coward, and great war hath been betwixt them both, but Ontzlake hath ever the better, and ever he proffereth Sir Damas to fight for the livelihood, body for body, but he will not do; other-else to find a knight to fight for him.
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And sithen Sir Elias proffereth so largely, I shall fight with him, or else I will be slain in the field, or else
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And this Sir Damas, our master is as evil beloved, for he is without mercy, and he is a coward, and great war hath been betwixt them both, but Ontzlake hath ever the better, and ever he proffereth Sir Damas to fight for the livelihood, body for body, but he will not do; other-else to find a knight to fight for him.
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And he maketh a ruthful noise and ghastful, when one proffereth to fight with another: and unneth is hurt when he is thrown down off an high place.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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The wise are they that speak not unless they obtain a hearing, even as the cup-bearer, who proffereth not his cup till he findeth
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The wine of this world is but a vapour in the desert, its pity and compassion but toil and trouble, the repose it proffereth only weariness and sorrow.
Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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She draweth near to me, when death hath come betwixt us two And proffereth union, when it no profit can me do.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879
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Death proffereth unto every confident believer the cup that is life indeed.
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854
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