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dost

[duhst] / dʌst /








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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

Like the bystanders in the Gospel of John, I’m left asking: “How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2017

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

Why art thou sad, my soul, and why dost thou disquiet me, chanted the priest in his deep rich voice.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith



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