Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flow.
Etymologies
- From flow + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When Nigerians sabotage the oil pipeline it is mostly because corruption, etc., has prevented the "spoils" from trickling down to the common man under whose feet oil floweth.”
“Take the road to the Holy Sepulchre, rescue that land and rule over it yourselves, for that land, as scripture says, floweth with milk and honey ....”
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“Should your cups floweth over, you will look like – to quote Olympia Dukakis in Steel Magnolias – you've got two pigs fighting under a blanket.”
“That land which, as the Scripture says, ‘floweth with milk and honey,’ was given by God into the possession of the children of Israel.”
“Comorin; and there also is a spring of crude ambergris74 which floweth like wax or gum over the stream-banks, for the great heat of the sun, and runneth down to the sea-shore, where the monsters of the deep come up and swallowing it, return into the sea.”
“But as to the raw ambergris which is not swallowed, it floweth over the channel and congealeth on the banks and when the sun shineth on it, it melteth and scenteth the whole valley with a musk-like fragrance: then, when the sun ceaseth from it, it congealeth again.”
“Here the tale was told that many unknown strangers had gathered there, where still a cloister standeth and where the Inn floweth into the”
“Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.”
“But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.”
“Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”
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