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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of blow.

Etymologies

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blow -est, the archaic second-person singular tense suffix

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Examples

  • She thanked the moon, and went on until the night wind came up and blew on her, then she said to it, “Thou blowest over every tree and under every leaf, hast thou not seen a white dove flying?”

    Household Tales 2003

  • ` ` Sir Prior, '' he said, ` ` thou blowest a merry note, but it may not ransom thee --- we cannot afford, as the legend on a good knight's shield hath it, to set thee free for a blast.

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • [119 Hints on Etiquette.] "When thou blowest thy nose, make not thy nose sound like a trumpet."

    A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia 1867

  • I might say of thee that thou blowest both hot and cold, since it was but half an hour ago that thou badest me speak naught of her: but I deem that I know thy mind herein: so I will tell thee that they seemed to be using her courteously; as is no marvel; for who would wish to mar so fair an image?

    The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

  • She thanked the moon, and went on until the night wind came up and blew on her, then she said to it, "Thou blowest over every tree and under every leaf, hast thou not seen a white dove flying?"

    Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm 1824

  • Then she thanked the moon, and went on till the night-wind blew; and she raised up her voice to it, and said, 'Thou blowest through every tree and under every leaf -- hast thou not seen my white dove?'

    Grimm's Fairy Tales Wilhelm Grimm 1822

  • “Your father’s foot,” she answered, “was free as the wind on the heath — it were as vain to say to him, where goest thou? as to ask that viewless driver of the clouds, wherefore blowest thou?

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Like Æsop’s traveller, thou blowest hot and cold, life and death, in the same breath, with a view, no doubt, to distract me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • “Sir Prior,” he said, “thou blowest a merry note, but it may not ransom thee — we cannot afford, as the legend on a good knight’s shield hath it, to set thee free for a blast.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • "O breeze that blowest from the land Irak * And from their corners whoso cry 'Wak!

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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