Word: thees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wailing, he caused the howling cur to be led before him. A stern judge, he sentenced the ear-eating canine to fast for two days. Weeping, he cried: "Oh, sinful dog, how do I know that mine own father may not have transmigrated into thee? Lest I punish him in thee for this sin, I will fast with thee these two days...
...steps directed toward the portals of Memorial Hall, Here Mr. Keogh, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Starke, are holding an inquisition in English A for the suppression of heretical Freshmen. Here I sit down to solve the "Why and the Wherefore, and if not why-not," of the euclitic 'thee' in 'prithee'. Since I am, of course, posted in advance of the questions which are going to be asked, I am also ready to distinguish between Plato, Pluto, Plutarch, Pliny, and Petrarch, and if necessary to write a limerick...
...flag, my new land, I salute thee...
Signorina Edda Mussolini, 16-year-old daughter of II Duce, flung a champagne bottle last week at the stem of a great liner, crying: "I christen thee Augustus...
Herr Bürgermeister Petersen of Hamburg ducked and dabbed at his coat amid a shower of fizzing champagne droplets. "I christen thee New York!" cried Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of New York's mayor, and laughed because she had flung the champagne bottle with too much violence. Simultaneously two bands blared Deutschland Ueber Alles and The Star-Spangled Banner...