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Example sentences for "doth"

Lexicographically close words:
dotard; dotards; dote; doted; dotes; dothe; doti; doting; dots; dotted
  1. Hath God indeed given appetites to man, And stored the earth so plenteously with means To gratify the hunger of his wish; And doth he reprobate, and will he damn The use of his own bounty?

  2. And happy is he to whom God doth impute No more his faults, by 'knowledging his sin: But cleansed now the Lord doth him repute.

  3. From angels' substance eke Thou mad'st him differ small; Save one doth change his life awhile; the other not at all.

  4. I am a linendraper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calendrer Will lend his horse to go.

  5. Now let us sing, long live the king, And Gilpin long live he; And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!

  6. Of Milton it may be said, in the words of a poet as great as himself-- "He doth bestride the world Like a Colossus: and we petty men Walk under his huge legs.

  7. I see thou mind'st him much, that dost reward him so: Being but earth, to rule the earth, whereon himself doth go.

  8. It is marvellous how she doth hold them by the power of her glance, by her gentleness and devotion.

  9. As for my Lord in the Heavens, I trow that He doth look beneath such matters of gay adornment; yet even so, I would have His mission honoured in the sight of all men, and His messenger fitly arrayed.

  10. And so he dismissed the matter, though, as I say, he doth not forget it, and I think never a day comes but he thinks on it.

  11. In sooth it doth seem so," answered Bertrand with grave and earnest countenance, "but yet with the good God nothing is impossible.

  12. Hath He not said before this that He doth take of the mean and humble to confound the great of the earth?

  13. If the visions of the maiden had been true, why doth not the Lord strike now, before Salisbury of England can invest the city?

  14. It is no offence to me, save inasmuch as it doth seem a slighting of my Lord.

  15. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging; make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage.

  16. Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart That doth not wish you joy.

  17. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.

  18. My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, And time to speak it in; you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster.

  19. With joyful pride her heart is high: Her humble house doth hold The man her nation's prophecy Long ages hath foretold!

  20. But when thy will my life doth hold Thine to the very core, The world, which that same will doth mould, I love, then, ten times more!

  21. Grief swages grief, and joy doth joy enhance; Nature is generous to her children so.

  22. Nor doth a soul cease to be beautiful In his sight, that its beauty is withdrawn, And hid by pale eclipse from human eyes.

  23. The living soul which I call me Doth love, and long to know; It is a thought of living thee, Nor forth of thee can go.

  24. Better the clown who God doth love Than he that high can go And name each little star above But sees not God below!

  25. Thaw the frozen face: Childhood all from thee doth flow-- Melt to song our age's snow.

  26. To the humble God doth come; In his heart he makes his home.

  27. Each little hill then holds its gift Forth to my joying eyes; Each mighty mountain then doth lift My spirit to the skies.

  28. Up to my ear my soul doth run-- Her other door is dark; There she can see without the sun, And there she sits to mark.

  29. Tomorrow from all parts they have such news as doth greatly perplex them.

  30. He is very ill-beloved, for that he is a hinderer of all men saving his own kinsfolks, whom he doth so advance as no man may have anything by his will but they, and for that also he feedeth every man with fair words, and performeth nothing.

  31. Doth he suffer himself to be eaten of mice and spiders?

  32. This night a new hot alarm is offered, and our town doth begin again to be guarded.

  33. O God, my soul doth magnify thee for the preciousness of these thoughts.

  34. Satan understood this in the case of Job; so he said to the Lord, "Doth Job serve God for naught?

  35. For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air?

  36. Aside] Her looks doth argue her replete with modesty; Her words doth show her wit incomparable; All her perfections challenge sovereignty.

  37. Edward from Belgia, With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders, Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas And with his troops doth march amain to London; And many giddy people flock to him.

  38. How it doth grieve me that thy head is here!

  39. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?

  40. But as this title honours me and mine, So your dislikes, to whom I would be pleasing, Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.

  41. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

  42. Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?

  43. Her sighs will make a batt'ry in his breast; Her tears will pierce into a marble heart; The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn; And Nero will be tainted with remorse To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.

  44. What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, For one to thrust his hand between his teeth, When he might spurn him with his foot away?

  45. Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; But, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

  46. Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?

  47. This man whom hand to hand I slew in fight May be possessed with some store of crowns; And I, that haply take them from him now, May yet ere night yield both my life and them To some man else, as this dead man doth me.

  48. Pilots in vain repeat their compass o'er, Until of him they learn that one point more The constant magnet to the pole doth hold, Steel to the magnet, Coventry to gold.

  49. Flemings there were--and Judith, doth she live?

  50. Tis thought your deer doth hold you at a bay.

  51. And whilst the pillows of thy breast Do her reclining head sustain, She swells with pride to be so blest, And doth all other flowers disdain; 10 Yet weeps that dew which kissed her last, To see her odours so surpass'd.

  52. Yet if thou choose On such thy freedom to bestow, Affection may excuse: For love from sympathy doth flow.

  53. If I should say that she the store 5 Of Nature's graces doth comprise, (The love and wonder of all eyes,) Who will not guess the Beauty I adore?

  54. Wheresoe'er I turn or move, A new passion doth detain me: Those kind beauties that do love, 15 Or those proud ones that disdain me.

  55. You may perhaps doubt at first sight 5 That it usurps upon your right; And praising virtues that belong To you, in others, doth you wrong.

  56. The lazy hours move slow, The minutes stay; Old Time with leaden feet doth go, And his light wings hath cast away.

  57. The reading that hath made you full, The reading that doth chain you, Is not from books, or woman's looks, But fresh from off the menu.

  58. Did you ever learn 'how doth the little,' when you went to school, John?

  59. How doth the little'--and all the rest of it, you know John.

  60. Doth he say so, the mincing, hypocritical miser?

  61. What doth he with such attendants, then, as he hath about him?

  62. This Wayland takes no money, indeed; nor doth he show himself to any one.

  63. Doth your new spirit of chivalry supply no more vigorous ejaculation when a noble struggle is impending?

  64. Gosling demeaned himself as if he were much of the same opinion, for even the sight of the gold made less impression on the honest gentleman than it usually doth upon one of his calling.

  65. And how doth your kinsman, good mine host?

  66. That bind a people's heart, The world doth owe thee at this day, And which it never can repay, Yet scarcely deigns to own!

  67. Onward, aye, onward still, Far past the weary town, Till languor doth seize on her feeble knees, And the heavy hands hang down.

  68. And bravely doth her sister-ship begin her young career.

  69. The maiden ceased: his secret joy dissembling, The Brahman turned to UMA pale and trembling: "And is it thus, or doth the maiden jest?

  70. O say, in vain doth mighty INDRA bear The thunderbolt of heaven, unused to spare?

  71. And now to be so greatly blamed, for not fraighting y^e ship, doth indeed goe near us, and much discourage us.

  72. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.

  73. And all those sayings will I over-swear; And all those swearings keep as true in soul As doth that orbed continent the fire That severs day from night.

  74. No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.

  75. There is no woman's sides Can bide the beating of so strong a passion As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart So big to hold so much; they lack retention.

  76. There is a fair behaviour in thee, captain; And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee I will believe thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character.

  77. A third-- "Lal Chand Sing Doth briskly dance and sing, Is death on the food, But at work is no good.

  78. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

  79. If I know him well, he will come hither and challenge the knight to combat that doth bring these charges against him, and in that will I trust, for God shall surely defend the right.

  80. Why doth it seem,' asked Balin, 'that this country is the fairest and happiest that ever I saw?

  81. If none do appear, then shall she suffer the death by burning as the law doth appoint.

  82. None of ye here have seen so terrible a thing as a land laid under the interdict of the Holy Church, and rarely doth she find her children so stubbornly evil as to merit it.

  83. What profit doth Sir Pinel think to gain from those false tales of her?

  84. I will keep it in my own room,' said Elaine, 'and will see that it doth not tarnish.

  85. And doth the king know of these evil rumours?

  86. For the strength of Sir Persaunt, even if ye conquer him, is but little compared with the great strength of the Red Knight who doth oppress my sister.

  87. Doth he think the mere sight of him on horseback will affright his enemies, that he carries neither shield nor lance.

  88. Sir king,' said the old white man, 'none may tell you what shall be the end of this quest of the Holy Graal, but I can tell you and these your knights what they must do to save this land from the ruin which doth threaten it.

  89. Ah, but say,' cried Elaine, 'where doth my lord lie wounded?

  90. But, Sir Lancelot, it doth me good to feel your wondrous skill and the strength of your arm.

  91. Pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this, And doth deserve a coronet of gold.

  92. On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd To wall thee from the liberty of flight, And no way canst thou turn thee for redress But death doth front thee with apparent spoil And pale destruction meets thee in the face.

  93. Fair Margaret knows That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.

  94. So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.

  95. But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees This jarring discord of nobility, This shouldering of each other in the court, This factious bandying of their favourites, But that it doth presage some ill event.

  96. Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid, And I am louted by a traitor villain And cannot help the noble chevalier.

  97. Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish His days may finish ere that hapless time.

  98. O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!

  99. Though thy speech doth fail, One eye thou hast to look to heaven for grace; The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

  100. Is that the worst this letter doth contain?

  101. Or doth this churlish superscription Pretend some alteration in good-will?

  102. I tell thee, fellow, He that doth naught with her, excepting one, Were best to do it secretly alone.

  103. But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?

  104. My hair doth stand an end to hear her curses.

  105. He doth entreat your Grace, my noble lord, To visit him to-morrow or next day.

  106. And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow, Long kept in Britaine at our mother's cost?

  107. Master Lieutenant, pray you, by your leave, How doth the Prince, and my young son of York?

  108. If God will be avenged for the deed, O, know you yet He doth it publicly.

  109. What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?

  110. To the QUEEN] Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate Upon your Grace, but with all duteous love Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me With hate in those where I expect most love!

  111. When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand; When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?

  112. And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee For false forswearing, and for murder too; Thou didst receive the sacrament to fight In quarrel of the house of Lancaster.

  113. White-liver'd runagate, what doth he there?

  114. From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death.


  115. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.