doth
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“The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” she whispers of an overwrought performance shown on stage in the Shakespearean tragedy.
From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025
All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting.
From BBC • May 5, 2023
His acceptance speech included a quotation from Francis Bacon: “Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022
The chronicler Samuel Pepys recorded that she "commands the King as much as ever, and hath and doth what she will."
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2022
The inward person doth shrink and hesitate before the daunting inception of active deeds, wishing that some discouraging voice should intervene and forbid, so that no hazard might be made.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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