doeth
Americanverb
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The cartoon, drawn by Joseph Keppler, has a caption that quotes Goethe: “Unto that Power he doth belong Which only doeth Right while ever willing Wrong.”
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
With a scriptwriter named Luke and a cast of thousands At Warner Bros., the left hand apparently careth not what the right hand doeth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Conceding, he told his supporters: "Be of good cheer, and remember, my dear friends, what a wise man said, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine, but a broken spirit dryeth the bones.'"
From Time Magazine Archive
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Assuredly, nothing doeth sooner worke the conuersion or subuersion of a State, then that any one sort of Subiects should grow so great, as to be able to ouerrule all the rest.
From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John
And he that thus doeth, I will say doeth like a Christian man.
From Against War by Erasmus, Desiderius
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