dost
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What about when Titus’s brother retorts, sensibly: “Why dost thou laugh? It fits not with this hour.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2023
POLONIUS: If thou dost insist upon thy wretched vision then let me invest your time; be true to thy work and speak to me through the reason of the null and alternate hypotheses.
From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020
You may feel as John Keats did when contemplating an ancient urn: “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought/As doth eternity.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2015
Banquo gazes at his betrayer not with zombielike menace but with quiet reproach, belying Macbeth’s subsequent claim that “thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with.”
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2015
“Where, dear Lady Claudia, dost thou expect to bathe?”
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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