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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
hope
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Examples
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Quoth the King, “What is the tale of the crocodile?”, and quoth the physician, “Impossible for me to tell it in this my state; Allah upon thee, spare me, as thou hopest Allah shall spare thee.”
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If thy's blog lookest spammy, thou wilst have extra hoops to jumpeth through, which Google hopest will maketh it not worth thy while....
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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If by these flatteries and idle follies, thou hopest to comfort or pacifie me, thou runnest quite by as from thy reckoning; for I shall never imagine my selfe halfe satisfied, untill in the presence of my parents, friends, and neighbours, I have revealed thy base behaviour.
The Decameron 2004
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Thereupon the king said, 'Thou hopest, O Brahmana, to defeat Vandin, not knowing his power of speech.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Thou hopest to defeat Vandin, only because thou knowest not his powers (of speech).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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If thou hopest of loue of a harlot though thou enioye her otherwise, thou art deceiued.
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The reward thou hopest to have from that best of monarchs, even I will give thee, however difficult it may be to obtain it.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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So Ilmarinen promised, and his sister said: 'O Ilmarinen, if thou hopest ever to wed the fair maid of Pohjola, thou must hasten and make thy sledge ready, for Wainamoinen is now sailing thither in a magic boat to win her before thee.'
Finnish Legends for English Children R. Eivind
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The reward thou hopest to have from that best of monarchs, even I will give thee, however difficult it may be to obtain it.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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In hoping to vanquish king Yudhishthira the just, thou really hopest to separate, stick in hand, from a herd roaming in
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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