Word: doth
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Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, An ague hath my ham. Freezeth river, turneth liver, Damm you, sing: Goddamm...
...like poets (Keats: "It is astonishing how they raven down scenery like children do sweetmeats"), playwrights (Shakespeare's Juliet: "No man like he doth grieve my heart") and grammarians (Bergen and Cornelia Evans: A Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage) should...
Dear Tod, we like your savoir-faire Direct and deft and debonair. No pitch, no plaques, no benefits, No Ladies' Aid, no worker kits. Half-Nelson tactics aren't your dish You twist your ring and state your wish. The genie hears: Voila, a champ. The oil doth pour from Nelson's lamp...
Divinity v. Publicity. He needed these qualities when, on his ascension, he stepped into what he called an "inevitable mess." He learned that for a popular modern monarchy it is not so much divinity as publicity that doth hedge a king, and that for the first time since Queen Victoria's early widowhood, a British king, his mercurial brother, had forfeited the royal immunity from criticism...
Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself . . . And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner . . . Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest...