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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
draw
Etymologies
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Examples
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P: Have they not considered the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and what things Allah hath created, and that it may be that their own term draweth nigh?
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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The time is past that formed my life, my death term draweth nigh,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The time is past that formed my life, my death term draweth nigh,
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So soon as he touched it, the sword draweth it forth with such a wrench that the column quaked thereof.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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O my son, the appointed term draweth near; my hour of death is at hand and it remaineth but to meet Allah (to whom belong
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"Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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On receipt of this message he replied: I see that our: dominion draweth already to its end, and our power declineth.
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But Gundovald remained at Comminges, and spoke to the people, saying: “Behold, the army draweth nigh; sally forth now, and make resistance.”
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Then he took up the word, and said — “Whoso draweth this sword from this stock, shall have the same as a gift from me, and shall find in good sooth that never bare he better sword in hand than is this.”
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Lo! the aged Iphis, thy father, draweth nigh to hear thy startling speech, which yet he knows not and will grieve to learn.
The Suppliants 2008
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