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  • Such was that of Timagenes to the husband of a woman that often vomited, — “Thou beginnest thy troubles by bringing home this vomiting woman,” saying

    Symposiacs 2004

  • "You sit there like a bunch of gaping primates, ready to buy anyth --" Ariaura said, and her voice changed abruptly back to the basso of Isus, "-- but the Age of Spiritual Enlightenment cannot begin until each of thou beginnest thy own journey."

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Such was that of Timagenes to the husband of a woman that often vomited, — “Thou beginnest thy troubles by bringing home this vomiting woman,” saying

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • "For God's sake, Sancho," said Don Quixote here, "stop that harangue; it is my belief, if thou wert allowed to continue all thou beginnest every instant, thou wouldst have no time left for eating or sleeping; for thou wouldst spend it all in talking."

    Don Quixote 2002

  • ¶ Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

    Deuteronomy 16. 1999

  • Thou beginnest thy speech with no promising prelude.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • Thou hast won many kingdom all to thine own hand, there is no king in land that may thee withstand, king nor kaiser, in ever any combat; of all that thou beginnest, thou dost thy will.

    Roman de Brut. English Layamon

  • O subjugator of all foes beginnest thou thy march when the time cometh, having taken into consideration all the omens you might see, the resolutions thou hast made, and that the ultimate victory depends upon the twelve mandalas (such as reserves, ambuscades, &c, and payment of pay to the troops in advance)?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • O subjugator of all foes beginnest thou thy march when the time cometh, having taken into consideration all the omens you might see, the resolutions thou hast made, and that the ultimate victory depends upon the twelve mandalas (such as reserves, ambuscades, &c, and payment of pay to the troops in advance)?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • If thou beginnest to grow cold, it shall begin to go ill with thee, but if thou givest thyself unto zeal thou shalt find much peace, and shalt find thy labour the lighter because of the grace of God and the love of virtue.

    XXV. Book I: Admonitions Profitable for the Spiritual Life. Of the Zealous Amendment of our Whole Life 1909

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