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  • I teach thee fishing and thou turnest astrologer and drawest me an unlucky lot.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He broke off his speech, and Birdalone yet looked on him, and after a little he said: Thou drawest the truth out of me; for moreover I would have thee with me longer than thou wouldst be if we but rode together down the water and out of the dale, and thou to fare away alone.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • What a tyranny (saith he), what a penetration of bodies is this! thou drawest with violence, and swallowest me up, as Charybdis doth sailors with thy rocky eyes: he that falls into this gulf of love, can never get out.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and, as thou drawest swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • Thou drawest down smiles — they did not rain on thee.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • I swear to God thou liest as I am Christian: if thou droppest lance and drawest sword, soon shalt thou see thou art carrying water to the cat:

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Thy peace for ever? and even now Thou drawest out of this horrible gulf the soul that seeketh Thee, that thirsteth for Thy pleasures, whose heart saith unto Thee, I have sought Thy face; Thy face,

    The Confessions 1999

  • Even now thou drawest from that vast deep the soul that seeks thee and thirsts after thy delight, whose "heart said unto thee, ` I have sought thy face; thy face, Lord, will I seek. '"

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • [123] Thou drawest near to none but the contrite in heart, and canst not be found by the proud, even if in their inquisitive skill they may number the stars and the sands, and map out the constellations, and trace the courses of the planets.

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • Then the son of Saturn, compeller of the ocean deep, uttered thus: 'It is wholly right, O Cytherean, that thy trust should be in my realm, whence thou drawest birth; and I have deserved it: often have I allayed the rage and full fury of sky and sea.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

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