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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
steal .
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Examples
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When the judge saw him, he cried out in his face and said to him, Woe to thee, O foe of God, is it come to such a pass with thee that thou doest the deed thou hast done and bringest these women far from their country and stealest their monies and wouldst make them
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Now thou stealest the hearts of my knights also, so that they rob me wholly of my son at the last.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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My son, why stealest thou away into the darkness with shame?
Codex Junius 11 Unknown
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Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 52: Romans The Challoner Revision
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Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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First, thou stealest from the rotund face its joyous dimples; then, dost thou gradually imprint remorseless furrows on the anxious brow.
A Love Story A Bushman
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Whence then can I learn that thou hast the soul of a man, when thou kickest like the ass, when thou bearest malice like the camel, when thou bitest like the bear, when thou ravenest like the wolf, when thou stealest like the fox, when thou art wily as the serpent, when thou art shameless as the dog?
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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WHY stealest thou along so furtively in the twilight, Zarathustra?
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Then he turned to the hunchback and said to him, 'So it is thou that stealest the meat and fat.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I Anonymous 1879
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