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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
throw .
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Examples
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“Thou throwest thy hatchet so far that thou canst not fetch it back again!”
Household Tales 2003
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Though thou throwest a stone at him a hundred times.
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Strike thrice with the wand on the iron door of the castle and it will spring open: inside lie two lions with gaping jaws, but if thou throwest a loaf to each of them, they will be quieted.
Household Tales 2003
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While thou wert exposed to the gaze of thy brothers thou struggledst to control thyself, because thou wouldst not their last memory of thee should be clouded; but now thou art alone, thou throwest off restraint, and, driven on by vengeance, hurriest forward.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Thou throwest into my path a lesson, which teaches me the way that I should go, and that assistance is ever at hand to those who will seek it; and, though given by a dog, let me not despise it.
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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Why dost thou not sing my little song when thou throwest up the garland?
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Thou art such a father that Thou takest our sins from us and throwest them behind Thy back.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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There is another lake in which in that thou throwest rods of hazel, it turneth those rods into ash: and ayenward if ye cast ashen rods therein, they turn into hazel.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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And thou, if thou seest but a little drop falling from the roof, throwest the whole house into confusion, calling thy slaves and disturbing every thing: while he, laid in rags, and straw, and dirt, has to bear all the cold.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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So that in warring against me thou throwest down what is His.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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