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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
fall .
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Examples
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And when they throw thee thy fodder thou fallest on it with greed and hastenest to line thy fair fat paunch.
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“Take strictest care of this pouch, and whenas thou fallest into any strait, burn a little of the incense therein and name my name, whereupon I will be with thee forthright and save thee from thy stress.”
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Nay, but close o'er thee when thou fallest from the masthead.
Hecuba 2008
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Nay, but close o'er thee when thou fallest from the masthead.
Hecuba 2008
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O Keener, O sweetheart, thou fallest not short, i.
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Yes, your garden looks fallish, but mine looks fallest now if not to say winter-y.
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Thou hast tried the loins and the members, resembling soaked leather, which could not be made to stand by all the efforts of the wearied hand; the pathic husband and effeminate bed thou desertest, but still thou fallest into similar couches.
Satyricon 2007
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Thou art worse than an idolater; thou hast made a graven image, and thou fallest down and worshippest the works of thy own hands; and, Jeroboam-like, wouldst have every body else bow down before thy calf!
Pamela 2006
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And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
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And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
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