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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
smile
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Examples
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How sweetly at thy own sad lot thou smilest, chanting a strain, which, spite of thee, may prove thee wrong!
The Trojan Women 2008
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How sweetly at thy own sad lot thou smilest, chanting a strain, which, spite of thee, may prove thee wrong!
The Trojan Women 2008
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Sicurano seeing him smile, suspected least himselfe had (by some unfitting behaviour) beene the occasion thereof: and therefore, with a more setled countenance, hee said: Perhaps thou smilest, because I that am a man, professing Armes, should question after such womanish toyes.
The Decameron 2004
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Tom! thou smilest no more, cried the corporal, looking on one side of him upon the ground, as if he apostrophised him in his dungeon.
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Tom! thou smilest no more, cried the corporal, looking on one side of him upon the ground, as if he apostrophised him in his dungeon.
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Nor smilest as once thou didst smile on thy bride;
The Poetry of Wales John Jenkins
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Why is it that thou alone smilest, as if in glee, in the presence of these? '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Why is it that thou alone smilest, as if an glee, in the presence of these? '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Our wisdom and scepticism are in our hands but children's toys; forgive us for dreaming that we can defy Thee, Thou who smilest at Golgotha.
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Greet thee by many clear tokens thou smilest to hear and to see.
Spirit to Spirit 1917
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