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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
return
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Examples
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Dust to dust, or from the poem, to dust returnest…. that dust might as well help the flowers grow.
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But he was silent and made no reply, whereupon cried the King, What aileth thee that thou rejoicest not in my joy and returnest me no answer?
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Quoth she, “Allah upon thee! when thou returnest to thy mother, learn what thing she keepeth for thee.”
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Replied Amjad, We have no wish; and my only charge to thee is that thou set my brother below and me above him, that the blow may fall on me first, and when thou hast killed us and returnest to the King and he asketh thee, ‘What heardest thou from them before their death?’
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Said the physician, “This then, O King, is thy requital and reward; thou returnest only evil for good.”
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But thou departest from us at peep of day and returnest not to us till sundown, wherefore there betideth us extreme desolation.
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Arcadians; and when thou returnest thence to the city of Athens, submit to be brought to trial by "the Avenging Three" for thy mother's murder, for the gods will be umpires between you and will pass a most righteous sentence on thee upon the hill of Ares, where thou art to win thy case.
Orestes 2008
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Nevertheless, if thou can be sure of thyself not to sleep when thou returnest to her, return to her and beware of sleeping and thou shalt attain thy desire; but if when returning to her thou wilt sleep, as is thy wont, she will surely slaughter thee.
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Arcadians; and when thou returnest thence to the city of Athens, submit to be brought to trial by "the Avenging Three" for thy mother's murder, for the gods will be umpires between you and will pass a most righteous sentence on thee upon the hill of Ares, where thou art to win thy case.
Orestes 2008
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Thou wendest forth at the call to dawn prayer and thou returnest not till sundown; and through the livelong day thou endurest all manner hardships; to wit, beating and belabouring and bad language.
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