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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
close .
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Examples
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Now when next morning dawned the King repaired to his audience hall, and his Lords and Nobles surrounded him and his Chamberlains and his Ministers, as the white en closeth the black of the eye. 85 Now the
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I am the sleepless one, who never closeth eye the slave of love, whose tears run never dry for the fire of my heart is still burning and never hidden is the flame of my yearning.
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The fish, glad of ease, but ungrateful to her that did it, that the bird may not talk largely of her abroad for non-payment, closeth her chaps, intending to swallow her, and so put her to perpetual silence.
The White Devil 2007
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The fish, glad of ease, but ungrateful to her that did it, that the bird may not talk largely of her abroad for non-payment, closeth her chaps, intending to swallow her, and so put her to perpetual silence.
The White Devil 2007
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Doublends Jined (may his forehead be darkened with mud who would sunder!) till Daleth, mahomahouma, who oped it closeth thereof the.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Don't sticketh thou head to closeth to squishy looking tube things.
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It tooke the name of the floude called Indus, whiche closeth vp the lande on the Weste side.
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Hellespont: and some men call it the Mouth of Constantinople; and some men call it the Brace of Saint George: and that arm closeth the two parts of the city.
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But faith, as it justifies (in its concurrence, whatever it be, thereunto), closeth with Christ for righteousness and acceptation with God only.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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It closeth with Christ in and for that, on the account whereof he is our righteousness, and for and by which we are justified.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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