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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
observe .
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Examples
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It is a precept of health which thou observest; thou art the better for it;
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I am still in hopes it may be so — she cannot be long concealed — I have already set all engines at work to find her out! and if I do, what indifferent persons, [and no one of her friends, as thou observest, will look upon her,] will care to embroil themselves with a man of my figure, fortune, and resolution?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
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Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
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WHEREAS ye are, as is alleged, determined to enter into the holy state of Matrimony [this is only alleged, thou observest] by and with the consent of, &c.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Consider that everything which happens, happens justly, and if thou observest carefully, thou wilt find it to be so.
The Meditations 2004
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But still though men strive to avoid this union, they are caught and held by it, for their nature is too strong for them; and thou wilt see what I say, if thou only observest.
The Meditations 2004
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“In of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer — of whose works I possess the only copy extant — “it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.”
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Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
Isaiah 42. 1999
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Salutations to thee that laughest awfully and as loud as the beat of a drum, and that observest dreadful vows!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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