dost
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Like the bystanders in the Gospel of John, I’m left asking: “How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2017
Why dost no man say ‘Juliet and Romeo?’
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2016
Banquo gazes at his betrayer not with zombielike menace but with quiet reproach, belying Macbeth’s subsequent claim that “thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with.”
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
There is a cliff, whose high and bending head looks fearfully in the confined deep: Bring me to the very brim of it, and I'll repair the misery thou dost bear...
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2012
“Hope art thou true, or dost thou flatter me?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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