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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of fall.

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Examples

  • And when they throw thee thy fodder thou fallest on it with greed and hastenest to line thy fair fat paunch.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “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.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Nay, but close o'er thee when thou fallest from the masthead.

    Hecuba 2008

  • Nay, but close o'er thee when thou fallest from the masthead.

    Hecuba 2008

  • O Keener, O sweetheart, thou fallest not short, i.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Yes, your garden looks fallish, but mine looks fallest now if not to say winter-y.

    Fallish « Fairegarden 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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