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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hatch .
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Examples
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And I saw also a bird that cometh out of a sea-shell and layeth eggs and hatcheth her chicks on the surface of the water, never coming up from the sea to the land. 39 Then we set sail again with a fair wind and the blessing of Almighty Allah; and, after a prosperous voyage, arrived safe and sound at Bassorah.
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
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I am happy to see the marvels the warm sun hatcheth: tigers and palms and rattle – snakes.
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Jeremiah 17. 1999
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Among the things that I saw there were a fish in the form of the cow, and a creature in the form of the ass; and I saw a bird that cometh forth from a sea-shell, and layeth its eggs and hatcheth them upon the surface of the water, and never cometh forth from the sea upon the face of the earth.
Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea. 1909
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I am happy to see the marvels the warm sun hatcheth: tigers and palms and rattlesnakes.
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I am happy to see the marvels the warm sun hatcheth: tigers and palms and rattle-snakes.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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But Divine Providence so disposeth it, that the bare nest hatcheth the eggs, and the warmth of the sandy ground discloseth them.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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"As the partridge setteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool."
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