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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
burn .
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Examples
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Then Mandapala with joined palms said unto the carrier of clarified butter, 'While thou burnest the forest of Khandava, spare my children.'
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O thou resplendent as Agni, thou burnest all even as Surya in his anger burneth all creatures.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Then Mandapala with joined palms said unto the carrier of clarified butter, 'While thou burnest the forest of Khandava, spare my children.'
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O Hymen! who burnest precious gums and scented woods in thy torch at the melting of aristocratic hearts, with what a pitiful penny-dip thou hast lighted up our little back-street romance.
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O thou resplendent as Agni, thou burnest all even as Surya in his anger burneth all creatures.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O Love that ever burnest and wilt never be extinguished!
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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Ah suffering soul, now thou burnest in the fire, and now thou revivest, and fetchest breath again: why weepest thou? when thou didst feed pitiless Love in thy bosom, knewest thou not that he was being fed for thy woe? knewest thou not?
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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And the priest of the idols that had given this counsel was anon taken of the devil, and cried seven days continually and said: S. Vital thou burnest me, and the seventh day the devil threw him in the river and there died shamefully.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
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At the expiration of time thou burnest up the three worlds, after having created them.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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When thou art at the side of Abrahim, thou burnest him with the light of thy beauty.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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