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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of look.

Etymologies

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look -est, the archaic second-person singular tense suffix

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Examples

  • My child, why weepest thou and no longer lookest cheerfully? why art thou fixing thine eyes upon the ground and holding thy robe before them?

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • The youth raised his head to him and replied, “O ignorant of what to the deserving is due, thou lookest on me with disdain and speakest to me with contempt; thy speaking is that of a tyrant true and thy doing what an ass would do.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “What has chanced, Dryfesdale, that thou lookest thus?” said his mistress — “Have there been evil tidings of my son, or of my grandchildren?”

    The Abbot 2008

  • Methought they were gay, if I may judge from some faint sounds of mirth and distant music, which found their way so far as these grated windows, and died when they entered them, as all that is mirthful must — But thou lookest as sad as if thou hadst come from a conventicle of the

    The Abbot 2008

  • My child, why weepest thou and no longer lookest cheerfully? why art thou fixing thine eyes upon the ground and holding thy robe before them?

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

  • Habundia smiled on her and said: So it is that now thou lookest older than I. Rounder and fuller is thy body, and thy limbs greater and fairer, and thy flesh sleeker; lovelier art thou in all wise, and such as I have thought of thee during these years, save that thy face is grown wiser and sadder than might be looked for.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Birdalone sought catch, and brought home venison to the dame, who was yet blithe with her, and spake that evening as she eyed her: I cannot tell how it is, but thou seemest changed unto me, and lookest more towards thy womanhood than even yesterday.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Yet if thou lookest to his body alone, what creature canst thou find more feeble than man, who oftentimes is killed by the bite of

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • But again the old carle drew nigher to her, and said: Thou seemest to have a good bow and store of arrows; if thou wouldst lend them to me for a little, and come with me into the wood hard by, I might shoot thee some venison with little toil to thee; whereas, forsooth, thou lookest scarce like one who is meet for over-much toil.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • The dame looked on her doubtfully and grimly a while, and then she said: What ails thee, my servant, that thou lookest so masterful?

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

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