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  • Thou knowst we can allow all commu - nications to be in the hands o 'the enemy not.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Moreover, ye wouldst surely hear the news from a son of local birth, whom thou knowst, and who hath held the corner since his father before him, and not decipher it from a cold stack of butcher-paper.

    Keith Blanchard: Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Why the Town Crier Shall Perish Not, E'en Though the News-Paper Be Heere 2009

  • Anywhoodle, a toast to the host who knowst better than anyone that real horror's a fragile, glass-boned thing -- and whose vitriolic disdain for Gunslinging Vampires and thoughtful appreciation of grace notes found in the most unexpected places keeps us all comin' back for more.

    One year later... Arbogast 2008

  • “O my daughter, knowst thou not that King Khirad Sháh seeketh thee in marriage and that he hath cast the brocade352 and hath given an hundred thousand dinars in settlement, and he is King of Shiraz and its dependencies and is lord of empire and horsemen and footmen?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thou canst not have forgotten allThat it feels like to be small: And Thou knowst I cannot prayTo Thee in my fathers way.

    Little Jesus Dymphna 2006

  • Thou canst not have forgotten allThat it feels like to be small: And Thou knowst I cannot prayTo Thee in my fathers way.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Dymphna 2006

  • If then thou thinkst as he does — thou knowst whom —

    Sophocles : Philoctetes Sophocles 2004

  • But what thou sayst speak soft, for well thou knowst

    Sophocles : Philoctetes Sophocles 2004

  • Yes I warrant thee, replied Guiotto, thou knowst I can invite my selfe thither, without any other bidding.

    The Decameron 2004

  • The land thou knowst not, place of fear, where thou findest out that sin-flecked being.

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

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