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Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.
So now will I have to read it? It's not like they did. Roger Sutton 2007
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Thou saw'st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed - while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms.
So now will I have to read it? It's not like they did. Roger Sutton 2007
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And when the knight espied him, he cried to him: "Tell me, youth, saw'st thou any coming after me from the court?"
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay
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Thou saw'st -- a pencil's by -- and infant West's thine own.
Zophiel A Poem Maria Gowen Brooks
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Then, hiding it again, he hastened back to the King, "What saw'st thou?" said
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay
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What saw'st thou there save sunset's sullen burning?
Fires of Driftwood 1922
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Not yet in valorous conflict/saw'st thou here his sword to swing.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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And Cos did foster thee, when thou wert still a child new - born, and received thee at thy mother's hand, when thou saw'st thy first dawning.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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Than have those spirits which so late thou saw'st;
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Than have those spirits which so late thou saw'st;
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
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