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  • _ Thou told'st me thou did'st hold him in thy hate.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 30, 1892 Various

  • LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE -- Prithee, mind my question; sure enough thou hadst told him whither thou wert going, or else he could not have been thy guide; so he must needs know of thy coming there: but what was the business thou told'st her, he did not know?

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

  • Aye, aye, like many more thou told'st direful truth as touching thyself, O Parsee; but, Ahab, there thy shot fell short.

    Great Sea Stories Various 1897

  • Aye, aye, like many more thou told'st direful truth as touching thyself, O Parsee; but, Ahab, there thy shot fell short.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Aye, aye, like many more thou told'st direful truth as touching thyself, O Parsee; but, Ahab, there thy shot fell short.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Aye, aye, like many more thou told'st direful truth as touching thyself, O Parsee; but, Ahab, there thy shot fell short.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • _ Oh blessed be the name that then thou told'st -- it has been ever since my charm, and kept me from distraction.

    Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Thomas Moore 1815

  • Thou told'st me, thou didst hold him in thy hate -- elicits at length a true feeling of Iago's mind, the dread of contempt habitual to those, who encourage in themselves, and have their keenest pleasure in, the expression of contempt for others.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • "And I warrant thou told'st him thou met'st me with a glee woman in the mirk loaning yonder?"

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • Then told'st her, doubting how these things could be

    Paradise Regained 1665

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