- present tense form of stet (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Im holden Thal, auf schneebedeckten Höhen War stets dein Bild mir nah!
From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume
The famous couplet— Ein Teil von jener Kraft Die stets das Böse will, und stets das Gute schafft— is far from expressing the Hegelian commonplace with which it is usually identified.
From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George
"O! höre stets Unaussprechlicher, höre mich deinen unglücklichen unglücklichsten aller Sterblichen."
From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander
Diese alte reiche Frau Hasste jede eitle Schau, Preiste Gottes gute Gabe, Mehrte stets die eig’ne Habe, Liegt hier unbeweint im Grabe.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Yet the satanically refined egoism which lays hold of Septimius is the same spirit incarnated in Goethe's Mephistopheles,—der Geist der stets verneint.
From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons