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Examples
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However, thou desolatest me by thy departure, and but that it is forbidden to me, I would certainly oppose thee and hinder thee from returning to thy country and kinsfolk.
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“O my son, thou desolatest me and I fear for thee.”
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Verily, thou gladdenest our country with thy presence, O my son, and thou desolatest shine own land by reason of shine absence.
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Tis the desolatest land almost in all Cornwall, and by keeping to the furze-brakes and spying from one to the next, he steered his patient down for the coast and brought him safe to the cliffs over Cawse Ogo.
Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Answered she, "O my son, thou desolatest me and I fear for thee."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And thou, howling Remorse, that desolatest thine own habitation, and feedest upon thy mother.
The Robbers Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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And thou, howling Remorse, that desolatest thine own habitation, and feedest upon thy mother.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Then rejoined the old man, "Verily, thou gladdenest our country with thy presence, O my son, and thou desolatest shine own land by reason of shine absence.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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However, thou desolatest me by thy departure, and but that it is forbidden to me, I would certainly oppose thee and hinder thee from returning to thy country and kinsfolk. "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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