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"Lie straight and still," she said, "and wish thyself where thou wast when thou leftest that dream."

From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)

"Dost thou not know what I did when thou leftest me?"

From Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Hunt, Margaret

Here be eighteen thou leftest for me to gather.

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah

"Twenty years or so," quoth the Prince, presently adding, "But thou, how long is it since thou leftest my sire?"

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Now it would be easier to fill a volume with such quotations, and such corrections, than to find sufficient authority to prove one such word as gavedst, leavedst, or leftest, to be really good English.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold