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Example sentences for "thou"

Lexicographically close words:
thorw; thos; those; thot; thother; thoucht; thouchts; though; thoughe; thought
  1. I greet thee in joyful humility, thankful that Thou hast granted to my old eyes to see Thy glorious and eternal temple once again!

  2. Then the Queen said: Thou art made a Princess now By this crown upon thy brow; All must bow to thy command, Who reside in Merryland; And my daughter thou shalt be, Living long and happily.

  3. Soon shalt thou be at rest, Soon fondled and caressed, Pressed to the mother's breast Who will adore thee.

  4. Purest joy shall be thy lot, All thy troubles be forgot; Rise, Prince Tot, for thou shalt be Loving son henceforth to me!

  5. Thou mightst have judged us, but thou wouldst not!

  6. I wish Thou could'st as plainly as thou see'st my honours, Behold the oppress'd and downcast spirit within.

  7. What dimm'd thy reason's piercing light, That Russian hearts thou understoodst not, From thine heroic spirit's height?

  8. I remember well our meeting, When first thou dawnedst on my sight, Like some fair phantom past me fleeting, Some nymph of purity and light.

  9. When Antonio knows what thou hast done To honour these our times, then will he place thee On the same level, side by side, with him He now depicts in so gigantic stature.

  10. Thou art a worm, no child of day: Thy god is Profit--thou wouldst weigh By pounds the Belvidere Apollo.

  11. Thou hast good title to advise, to warn, For sage experience, like a long-tried friend, Stands at thy side.

  12. With a jest thou leapedst From the Lyceum's threshold to thy bark, Thenceforth thy path aye on the main thou keepedst, O child beloved of wave and tempest dark!

  13. Finely and delicately hast thou limn'd The poet, moving in his world of thought.

  14. I see which way--Ah, thou type of womankind!

  15. They who employed thee," replied Oldbuck, "as thou full well dost know.

  16. Troy, and thou to be the plague of Monkbarns!

  17. This child is already as one of the dead, and since thou and Teresa alone ken that it lives, let it be dealt upon as ye will answer to me!

  18. Ay, ay, Caxon, thou art as good a comforter as a valet-de-chambre.

  19. O, truth, thou divinity of republicans, thou knowest the incorruptibility of may intentions!

  20. Nobody calls a person Monsieur or Madame; the only titles allowed are citoyen and citoyenne while thee and Thou is the general rule.

  21. Thou art my supreme deity," she writes to him, "and I know no other on this earth!

  22. Jacky, come give me thy fiddle If ever thou mean to thrive; Nay, I'll not give my fiddle, To any man alive.

  23. A hat and a feather, To keep out cold weather; So, Johnny, how dost thou now?

  24. Turn back, turn back, thou scornful knight, And rub thy spurs till they be bright.

  25. The cup was gold, filled with wine; Drink, fair lady, and thou shalt be mine!

  26. Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet feed the swine; But sit on a cushion and sow a fine seam, And feed upon strawberries, sugar, and cream!

  27. Jacky, come give me thy fiddle, If ever thou mean to thrive: Nay; I'll not give my fiddle To any man alive.

  28. Thou hast given me nothing in all the world; and I ask for nothing but that Thou shouldst punish him, and all those who acquitted him.

  29. Torment them; or if Thou in Heaven above wilt not help me, then he, the other one, from below, shall!

  30. But even Thou art not as Thou wast in old times.

  31. Why hast Thou let the man that killed him go free, and live in happiness?

  32. Thou art a patient creditor, but a sure payer.

  33. In return, I give thee five full domains over which thou shalt rule.

  34. Herald,' said Stephen, 'thou hast served me as a mole-hill.

  35. I wish I was a little worm, All rigling in the sun, That I myself towards thee might turn When thou along didst come.

  36. Fingred all thou shalt beholde: No iote left for tokens sake That thou wert so great of olde.

  37. Die will I straight now, now streight will I die, And streight with thee a wandring shade will be, Vnder the Cypres trees thou haunt’st alone, Where brookes of hell do falling seeme to mone.

  38. So long thou stai’st, so long thou doost thee rest, So long thy loue with such things nourished Reframes, reformes it selfe and stealingly Retakes his force and rebecomes more great.

  39. Hast thou the Gods so angred by thy fault?

  40. Yelded Pelusium on this Countries shore, Yelded thou hast my Shippes and men of warre, That nought remaines (so destitute am I) But these same armes which on my back I weare.

  41. Then willing to besiege The great Phraate head of Media, Thou campedst at her walles with vaine assault, Thy engins fit (mishap!

  42. Witnesse thou Gaule vnus’d to seruile yoke, Thou valiant Spaine, you fields of Thessalie With millions of mourning cries bewail’d, Twise watred now with bloude of Italie.

  43. Thou should’st haue had them too, and me vnarm’de Yeelded to Cæsar naked of defence.

  44. None els hencefoorth, but thou my dearest Queene, Shall glorie in commaunding Antonie.

  45. Thou look'st up to the night as to the face Of one thou lov'st; I know her beauty is Deep-mirrored in thy soul as in a sea.

  46. His hand was on thee as 'twere yesterday, Thou later Revelation!

  47. A beauteous menial to our wants divine, A shape celestial tending the dark earth With light and silver service like the moon, Is Poesy; ever remember this-- How wilt thou end it?

  48. I read thy future like an open book: I see thou shalt have grief; I also see Thy grief's edge blunted on the iron world.

  49. My lustrous Leopard, hast thou been in love?

  50. And to the whistling wind thus did he sing aloud:-- "Didst look last night upon my native vales, Thou Sun!

  51. And as thou passest some mid-forest glade, The simple woodman stands amazed, as if An angel flashed by on his gorgeous wings.

  52. My soul is like a wide and empty fane, Sit thou in 't like a god, O maid divine!

  53. Thou noble soul, Teach me, for thou art nearer God than I!

  54. Thou art no vestal held in holy vows; Out with our falcons to the pleasant heath.

  55. Thou leanest to me as a swelling peach, Full-juiced and mellow, leaneth to the taker's reach.

  56. Thou beloved Father, dost thou still, shut out from me only by thin penetrable curtains of earthly Space, wend to and fro among the crowd of the living?

  57. Hast thou in any way a Contention with thy brother, I advise thee, think well what the meaning thereof is.

  58. I tell thee, Blockhead, it all comes of thy Vanity; of what thou fanciest those same deserts of thine to be.

  59. Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest?

  60. Consider, thou foolish Teufelsdröckh, what benefits unspeakable all ages and sexes derive from Clothes.

  61. Not only all common Speech, but Science, Poetry itself is no other, if thou consider it, than a right Naming.

  62. And thou saidst, 'It is a man in pilgrim's weeds, and lo, he hath a strange flower in his hand.

  63. But wherefore didst thou not tell me of those fair palms that have grown where the thorn hedge was wont to be?

  64. Then the hermit moved his hands till he laid them on the boy's head, and he said, "The Lord repay thee sevenfold for all thou hast done for me, dear child.

  65. I'd like a hymn at the grave, Jack, if the Vicar has no objections, and do thou sing if thee can.

  66. Cease then, if thou would'st be counted among the just, to vilify soldiers.

  67. What's thou to do wi' doves, and thou a work'us lad?

  68. Moreover, I suppose that when thou hast it, thou wilt see clearly.

  69. Dust thou the pulpit, and leave the parson to preach, and let the Maker of souls reckon with them.

  70. And shall she be Kyrkegrim when thou art turned preacher, and the preacher sits on the judgment seat?

  71. And didst thou see me, and the garden, in thy dream, my Father?

  72. And when he said the prayers for the Hours, he no longer added what he had added beforetime, but evermore repeated, "If THOU wilt.

  73. But others can shake besides the winds, as I will show thee if thou hast any doubts in the matter.

  74. O vertue," she cries, in her torment, "where doest thou hide thy selfe?

  75. Beautie nor time cannot bee recalde, and if thou love, like of Montanus; for if his desires are manie, so his deserts are great.

  76. Away, wag; what, would'st thou make an implement of me?

  77. Dekker was well aware of the family likeness between the two, so much so that we see him once calling Nash's ghost to his assistance, as one from whom he might most naturally gain help: "And thou into whose soule .

  78. Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport .

  79. Croenech in Murthemne, From to-day Focherd will be the name Of the place in which thou didst fall, O Ferbaeth.

  80. That thou shouldst fall at Cuchulainn's hands was sad, O Calf!

  81. It is thus they were binding their covenants and their compact, and they made a song there: 'Thou shalt have a reward,' etc.

  82. Then the maiden looked for it; and Medb said: 'O Fedelm the prophetess, how seest thou the host?

  83. Cor 3:11) But dost thou plead still as thou didst before, and wilt thou stand thereto?

  84. Take heed thou smile not upon them, to encourage them in small faults, lest that thy carriage to them be an encouragement to them to commit greater.

  85. If thou art offended at that, show me when, and at what time every soul receives a light from Christ after it comes into the world.

  86. Wherefore, Counsel Third, If thou wouldest improve this love, keep thyself in it.

  87. If thou strivest to go over any other way, thou wilt be but a thief and a robber (John 10:1 compared with 9).

  88. And now friend to thee, who hast taken in hand to answer my queries laid down in the end of my book; I say, thou hast only wrangled and quarrelled at them; but hast not given on plain and right answer to any one of them.

  89. And until thou comest experimentally to know these things, thou wilt have neither list, nor will, to depart from iniquity.

  90. Or dost thou wink, because thou would'st not see?

  91. Matt 23) Pharisee, there are transgressions against the second table, and the Publican shall be guilty of them: But there are sins also against the first table, and thou thyself art guilty of them.

  92. Fear, and friendly Hope, And Envy, watch the issue, while the lines By which thou shalt be judged, are written down.

  93. All this Whittier foresaw when he followed his own counsel of later years, "My lad, if thou wouldst win success, join thyself to some unpopular but noble cause.

  94. But dost thou love life, then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says.

  95. It was a little book in which the passion and the pathos of his whole life were foreshadowed in the early couplet, Know thou the secret of a spirit Bowed from its wild pride into shame.

  96. In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps, And thou must watch and combat till the day Of the new earth and heaven.

  97. Baron's son although thou be, Thou must pay for thy misdoings In the country of the free!

  98. And didst thou deem the barren isle, or ocean waves, could bind The master of the universe--the monarch of mankind?

  99. All these things the judge shall teach thee of the land thou hast reviled; Get thee o'er the wide Atlantic, worthless London's puling child!

  100. Better thou and I were lying, cold and timber-stiff and dead, With a pan of burning charcoal underneath our nuptial bed!

  101. Wherefore, monarch, hast thou brought me from the dungeon dark and drear, Where these limbs of mine have wasted in confinement for a year?

  102. Wherefore, then, if thou dost love me, So to words of anger move me, Corking of this face of mine, Tricksy cousin Caroline?

  103. Thou art a foe; but a brave soldier-knight Would scorn to wrong a woman; and if death Could arm my hand this moment, thou wert safe In a poor cottage as in royal halls.

  104. Old man, Art thou not prisoner for gainsaying this?

  105. Thou hast put on thy mildest look to-day, Thou mighty element!

  106. Lift thy brave arm so terrible, and swear, Swear thou wilt never sheathe the avenging steel Till thou hast made the fell invader feel How vain the terrors of his glittering crest, How warm the flame that fires a patriot's breast!

  107. Art thou, Almighty God, and just and true Are all thy ways, thou King of saints!

  108. Thou who dost smiling sit, as fancy flings Her hues unreal o'er created things, And as the scenes in gay distemper shine, Dost wondering cry, How sweet a world is mine!

  109. Dark city of the desolate, Once thou wert rich, and proud, and great!

  110. O thou which art, and was, and which shall be, Thus hast thou judged, for they have shed the blood Of prophets and of saints!

  111. Thou shalt reveal the things That thou hast seen; but that same book, which none In heaven or earth could open, but the Lamb, None but the Lamb shall close.

  112. All our town awaits thee, and thou shalt enter all our cabins in peace.

  113. As they came near him, he said: "How beautiful is the sun, O Frenchmen, when thou comest to visit us.

  114. Here is my son, that I give thee, that thou mayst know my heart.

  115. Thou knowest the Great Spirit, who has made us all; thou speakest to him and hearest his words: ask him to give me life and health, and come and dwell with us, that we may know him.

  116. Time is: I know Time is, and that thou shall hear, good man Brazen face.

  117. Hadst thou called us then," said Fryer Bacon, "we had been made for ever.

  118. It will be more profitable to thee than this harsh Latin: make no reply, but follow my counsel, or else by the Mass thou shalt feel the smart hand of my anger.

  119. Then answered Virgilius to the voice that was under the little board, and said, "Who art thou that talkest me so!

  120. If thou canst speak no wiser, they shall sleep till doom's day for me.

  121. Lawyer so long as he hath watched with thee, he would have given him more, and better words than thou hast yet.

  122. Thou shalt not steal,'" said Mr. Long, impressively.


  123. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thou" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    grand; kilo; kilometer; millennium; myriad; number; thousand; yard


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    thou being; thou best; thou darest; thou didst; thou knows; thou livest; thou must; thou need; thou seemest; thou shalt surely die; thou wast; thou wilt; thou wish; thou would; though only; thought himself; thought nothing; thought perhaps; thought transference; thought very; thousand feet above the; thousand florins; thousand fold; thousand pesos; thousand talents; thousand years