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  • verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of bellow

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bellow +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Gandharvas on the occasion of the tale of the cattle, where was this son of a Suta then who now belloweth like a bull?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • I see nothing but the glare of searing fires that blaze upward from the nethermost abyss, I hear nothing save the thunderous roar that belloweth out from thousands upon thousands of fiery weapons of assault, while every land is crying aloud in its secret tongue: ‘My riches avail me nothing, and my sovereignty hath perished!’

    Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

  • And as when at the mouth of some heaven-born river a mighty wave roareth against the stream, and arouseth the high cliffs 'echo as the salt sea belloweth on the beach, so loud was the cry wherewith the Trojans came.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • As when on the echoing beach the sea-wave lifteth up itself in close array before the driving of the west wind; out on the deep doth it first raise its head, and then breaketh upon the land and belloweth aloud and goeth with arching crest about the promontories, and speweth the foaming brine afar; even so in close array moved the battalions of the Danaans without pause to battle.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • The _Bittern_, 8. putteth his Bill in the water, and belloweth like an Ox. _Butio_, 8. inferit rostrum aquæ,

    The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

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