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  • A hundred years or so ago, in fact, it's an even bet that I would be reading from the King James Version of the Bible the one with all the thee's and thou's and brides and grooms would be informed that "faith, hope and charity abide ... and the greatest of these is charity."

    Kate Braestrup: 1 Corinthians: The Profound Meaning In Paul's Prescription For Marriage Kate Braestrup 2011

  • A hundred years or so ago, in fact, it's an even bet that I would be reading from the King James Version of the Bible the one with all the thee's and thou's and brides and grooms would be informed that "faith, hope and charity abide ... and the greatest of these is charity."

    Kate Braestrup: 1 Corinthians: The Profound Meaning In Paul's Prescription For Marriage Kate Braestrup 2011

  • "Remember the old Yorkshire aphorism directed by an old gaffer to some upstart adolescent: 'Sithee, lad; thou them as thou's thee, and not afore.'"

    Letters 2010

  • They have done all the things I swore they wouldn't, and if we were to go into those holier than thou's houses now, I'm sure we would find their kids eating twinkies, drinking fruit punch and watching tv too....

    Musical Preschooler jodifur 2008

  • So to Peter's thou's gan i 'the mornin, gan suin an' thou'll get a good pleyce;

    The Mayor of Bordeaux 2000

  • I could not lift it as high as my head, and I said to the captain, 'I am afraid I shall not be able to work to-day,' when he kindly said, 'Never mind the work, surely thou's done enough for one day; take care of thy arm,' and he gave me something with which to rub it.

    The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe Henry Woodcock

  • His mother tells me, she has often heard him engaged in earnest prayer; and once, perceiving him much worse, she said, 'Bill, thou's very ill.'

    Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth

  • If thou's so pleased to learn as Sebastian is to teach, then he'll be as quick to teach as thou to learn.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • Thou wants no crutch with two fine, straight, strong legs like thou's got.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • An 'faith! thou's neither lag nor lame, [backward]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

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