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  • Quoth she, O my lord and light of mine eyes, when thou awokest last night and foundest me not, thou soughtest me, till thou sawest me in the garden under the guise of a white she-bird, and also thou sawest the black bird leap on me and tread me.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But the ground crumbled underfoot and when I looked down the shadow of the gates touched my toes, a cold rectangle of pro-foundest black, deep as all eternity, and I was dizzy and about to fall and I, and I ...

    Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories Greenberg, Martin H. 1990

  • Irish: "Whether or no they worship the moon, I know not; but, when they first see her after the change, they commonly bow the knee, and say the Lord's Prayer; and near the wane, address themselves to her with a loud voice, after this manner: 'Leave us as well as thou foundest us.'"

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • But whence wert thou supported, before thou foundest means of sustenance by thy marriage?

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • If Thou foundest them not, they will be without foundation.

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • Standing once more on the corner from which he had started off, the Saint drew his cigarette to brightness and studied the fagade again with that tingle of reckless ecstasy working its way deep into the pro-foundest recesses of his being.

    The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937

  • I daresay that thou foundest her threading of pearls, or embroidering some curious device with Venice gold, for me her captive knight.

    The Fourth Book. IV. Of the Pleasant Discourses Continued between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza, with Other Adventures 1909

  • We have seen Mr. Lincoln contemptuously compared to Sancho Panza by persons incapable of appreciating one of the deepest pieces of wisdom in the pro-foundest romance ever written; namely, that, while Don Quixote was incomparable in theoretic and ideal statesmanship, Sancho, with his stock of proverbs, the ready money of human experience, made the best possible practical governor.

    Abraham Lincoln, 1864-1865 1909

  • Thou wilt betray thyself before the people; as, not long ago, at thy cousin’s, when thou foundest out the woodcut with the description, and didst exclaim, with a cry: “Count Egmont!

    Act I. Scene III 1909

  • To this lyric, however, there came as basis a fundamental conception that made aim to grapple with the pro-foundest problems compassed by the mysteries of life and death, and

    Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

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