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"Fie, thou old hag! thou call'st me a good youth, but thou shouldst first feed and give me drink, and prepare me a bath, then only shouldst thou ask me questions."
The Book of Stories for the Story-teller Fanny E. Coe
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Ere night shalt thou behold it,/how wife of him thou call'st thine own
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Wherefore, I will part with my pride to the noble Canons of the Church --- my luxury, as thou call'st it, to the Monks of the rule --- and my blood-thirstiness to the Knights of the Temple. ''
The Talisman 1894
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"How call'st thou this thy dress?" we said to her, and she Made answer with a word full of malicious grace.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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A fool! mine own Long-tongue! why, call'st thou me fool!
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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"Why call'st thou me? what wouldst thou, Peleus 'son?"
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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Thou call'st their music forth, with all its tones
Gaut Gurley D. P. Thompson 1831
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Thou call'st the loyal with thy menaced breath: --
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Faustus raised the devil, as the Parliament raised the army, and then, as the devil flies away with Faustus, so will the army fly away with the Parliament, or the rump, as thou call'st it, or sitting part of the so-called Parliament.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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- Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st for such store, when one is one to many.
Comedy of Errors 1793
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