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Most pretentious operatic theeing and thouing can be blamed not on opera's original librettists but on their 19th-Century English translators.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never mind their broad-brims, and theeing and thouing.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

By a reminiscence of other times, they regained instinctively their theeing and thouing of the sisters' school, those two women who for nearly twenty years had not addressed a word to each other.

From Ramuntcho by Loti, Pierre

Dora had taken to "theeing and thouing" Talabor, ever since the time of danger and anxiety which they had passed through together.

From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by J?sika, Mikl?s

"The phraseology we call thee and thouing is not in so common use with us, as the tutoyant among the French."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold