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bist

British  
/ bɪst /

verb

  1. archaic a form of the second person singular of be 1

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Tenderly she sang Schumann's Du bist wie eine Blume, chicly she trilled a trifle of Bizet.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was writing a song in two languages, along the lines of Darling je vous aime beaucoup and Bei mir bist du schon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Soon afterward Mother came in from the bathroom, and just to tease her I said, “Du bist doch eine echte Rabenmutter.”

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The setting of "Du bist wie eine Blume," however, hardly does justice either to Heine's poem, or to Nevin's art.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes

"Outside, near by, wid the bist shelter I could give him: I didn't saa your own."

From The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux by Edward Sylvester Ellis

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