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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
write
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Examples
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E'en though thou like it not, this is what the gods decree; but thou, after letting thy taper spread its light abroad, writest the letter which is still in thy hands and then erasest the same words again, sealing and re-opening the scroll, then flinging the tablet to the ground with floods of tears and leaving nothing undone in thy aimless behaviour to stamp thee mad.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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E'en though thou like it not, this is what the gods decree; but thou, after letting thy taper spread its light abroad, writest the letter which is still in thy hands and then erasest the same words again, sealing and re-opening the scroll, then flinging the tablet to the ground with floods of tears and leaving nothing undone in thy aimless behaviour to stamp thee mad.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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To his Secretary he said, ‘Thou art the controller of my wit: so do thou watch over me in what thou writest for me and from me.’
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And thou must be sensible, that I can answer every tittle of what you writest, upon the foot of the maxims we have long held and pursued. —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Nothing thou writest of this sort can I take amiss.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Though thou hadst not so good an invention as he to whom thou writest, thou hadst as active an heart for mischief, as ever I met with in man.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Nevertheless, when thou writest that, in thy present mood, thou thinkest of marrying, and yet canst so easily change thy mood; when
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
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And so I dismiss all further argumentation and debate upon the question: and I impose upon thee, when thou writest to me, an eternal silence on this head.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Nay, thou declarest, every time thou writest on the subject, that she will, that she must yield, entangled as she is: and yet makest her virtue the pretence of thy solicitude for her.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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