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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
gaze .
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Examples
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What is it about me that whitens the face and curdles the blood of ye who gazeth upon me?
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The sky gazeth brightly thereon, the world lieth deep.
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One day when he sat on a stone in front of his cave, and gazed calmly into the distance — one there gazeth out on the sea, and away beyond sinuous abysses, — then went his animals thoughtfully round about him, and at last set themselves in front of him.
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An unknown presence is about me, and gazeth thoughtfully.
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From the fight with wild beasts returned he home: but even yet a wild beast gazeth out of his seriousness — an unconquered wild beast!
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Hear how magnificently Homer speaks of the higher powers: As far as a man seeth with his eyes into the haze of distance as he sitteth upon a cliff of outlook and gazeth over the wine-dark sea, even so far at a bound leap the neighing horses of the Gods.
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Master of Grace, that my spirit should go hence to behold the glory of its lady: to wit, the blessed Beatrice, who now gazeth continually on His countenance qui est per omnia soecula benedictus.
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906
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Hear how magnificently Homer speaks of the higher powers: 'As far as a man seeth with his eyes into the haze of distance as he sitteth upon a cliff of outlook and gazeth over the wine-dark sea, even so far at a bound leap the neighing horses of the Gods.'
On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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For as one that gazeth upon the beauty of the heaven, saith, "Glory be to Thee, O God! How fair a work hast thou formed!" so too when beholding virtue in any man: nay, and much more so in the latter instance.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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From the fight with wild beasts returned he home: but even yet a wild beast gazeth out of his seriousness-an unconquered wild beast!
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