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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
throw .
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Examples
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Jews yellow. 131 And every day she tortureth me and scourgeth me with an hundred stripes, each of which draweth floods of blood and cutteth the skin of my shoulders to strips; and lastly she clotheth my upper half with a hair cloth and then throweth over them these robes.
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And Joseph was going to throweth it away, but Mary saideth unto him, she saideth, 'Holdeth it!
Archive 2007-12-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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And Joseph was going to throweth it away, but Mary saideth unto him, she saideth, 'Holdeth it!
An Enormous Spitball! ** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007
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And the process against idolatry is exactly set down: for God there speaketh to the people as Judge, and commandeth them, when a man is accused of idolatry, to enquire diligently of the fact, and finding it true, then to stone him; but still the hand of the witness throweth the first stone. 449 This is not private zeal, but public condemnation.
Leviathan 2007
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Fear and liberty are consistent: as when a man throweth his goods into the sea for fear the ship should sink, he doth it nevertheless very willingly, and may refuse to do it if he will; it is therefore the action of one that was free: so a man sometimes pays his debt, only for fear of imprisonment, which, because no body hindered him from detaining, was the action of a man at liberty.
Leviathan 2007
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In his coming towarde the ennemy, he throweth his stone, fetching his ronne, and maketh lightlye a narowe mysse, thoughe it be a good waye of: suche continuall practise they haue of it.
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For whome she catcheth, she throweth a foote beneth beggery, whilest thei canne finde none ende of their scrattinge, but the more thei haue, the fellier gnaweth their longing.
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Eliphante: and euen so sittyng on his backe shooteth, or throweth the darte at his game.
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Nothing abashed, he hammered his mule with heel, and departed ejaculating, “What hath man but a single life? and he who throweth it away, what is he but a fool?”
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And lastly she clotheth my upper half with a haircloth and then throweth over them these robes.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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