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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Frankincense.

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Examples

  • “Sthee thure is perrtie,” he said with a mouth full of food.

    Just Add Magic Cindy Callaghan 2010

  • And thure enough, sooner or later, he would bring up EIza, as though he knew ohe was on my mind as well.

    the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

  • 'I am thure I cannot gueth; perhapth Thir Hugh Prythe's,' Miss Nugent lisped.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • 'I never thought about him; mamma thayth he ith very handthome, but I am thure he is very _gauche_ and countrified.'

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • 'Oh! I can't tell you, he thaid so much about my lookth, that I am thure he made me bluth.'

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • I am thure you ought; he managed everything tho nithely for you yethterday.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • 'Oh, Gwynne, I'm thure Mr Prothero ith very nithe, and tho gentlemanlike and good and handthome.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • 'I am thure of that, Freda; but I think the Englith are more thinthere; mamma thaith tho.'

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • You wath alwayth a favourite with uth, and you've done uth credith thinth the old timeth I'm thure.

    Hard Times 1876

  • You wath alwayth a favourite with uth, and you've done uth credith thinth the old timeth I'm thure.

    Hard Times 1868

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