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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
expire .
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Examples
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In vain we study delight; it is at the command of every sober mind, and in every sense born with us; but Nature, who teacheth us the rule of pleasure, instructeth also in the bounds thereof and where its line expireth.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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In vain we study delight: it is at the command of every sober mind, and in every sense born with us: but nature, who teacheth us the rule of pleasure, instructeth also in the bounds thereof, and where its line expireth.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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420 Which may bear well enough (if there be no other text directly against it) this interpretation, that God only knows, but man not, what becomes of a man's spirit when he expireth; and the same Solomon, in the same book, delivereth the same sentence in the sense I have given it.
Leviathan 2007
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(if there be no other text directly against it) this interpretation, that God onely knows, (but Man not,) what becomes of a mans spirit, when he expireth; and the same Solomon, in the same Book,
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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As Vidura told me of old, without doubt a terrible battle will take place, as soon as the pledged period of the Pandavas expireth. '"
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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As Vidura told me of old, without doubt a terrible battle will take place, as soon as the pledged period of the Pandavas expireth. '"
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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