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  • “What do I hear?” cried the tailor, and ran upstairs and said to the youth, “Hollo, thou liar: thou saidest the goat had had enough, and hast let her hunger!” and in his anger he took the yard-measure from the wall, and drove him out with blows.

    Household Tales 2003

  • Because THOU once saidest, O Zarathustra: ‘Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life’; — that led and allured me to thy doctrine.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Thow fals Heretike saidest that the Holy Watter is no sa good as wasche, and suche lyik.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Thow fals Heretike, tratour, and theif, thow saidest that the Sacrament of the Altare was but a pece of bread, backin upon the asches, and no other thing elles; and all that is thare done, is but a superstitious ryte aganis the commandiment of God.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Then the good nurse Eurycleia made answer to her: ‘My child, what word hath escaped the door of thy lips, in that thou saidest that thy lord, who is even now within, and by his own hearthstone, would return no more?

    Book XXIII Homer 1909

  • Thou saidest that he perished to get atonement for Agamemnon; tell me, if perchance I may know him, being such an one as thou sayest.

    Book XIV Homer 1909

  • Wherefore mankind must needs (as thou saidest in thy verse a little before), being separated and severed from its source, fail and fall away.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • There is not an Imperialist orator in Canada but may yet be asked in some form the ancient query, "Where is now thy mouth with which thou saidest: 'Who is Abimeleck that we should serve him'"

    The Fatuous Insolence of the Canadians 1904

  • LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE -- But mind me, prithee: Thou didst tell that honest man there, that my lady Lisle asked thee, whether he knew anything of the business, and thou saidest no.

    State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902

  • "If thou wear the habergeon or the hair, fasting bread and water, and if thou saidest every day a thousand Pater Nosters, thou shalt not please Me so well as thou dost when thou art in silence, and suffrest Me to speak in thy soul."

    The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902

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