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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rise .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And she replied: Know that the sun riseth from the shadows in the Eastern hemisphere and setteth in the shadows of the Western, and each hemisphere compriseth one hundred and eighty degrees.
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Cotones, because it boweth when the sun riseth, is sweetest when it is oldest; and children, who in their tender years sow courtesy, shall in their declining states, reap love.
A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding Sophia Orne 1873
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The good word riseth up to Him, and the righteous deed will He exalt.
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Because whiles it riseth and whiles it setteth, but our Lord is ever present and never absent and He over all things is Omnipotent!
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He riseth and he walketh and he talketh without tongue;
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Then they changed that dress and displayed her in a robe of azure; and she reappeared like the full moon when it riseth over the horizon, with her coal-black hair and cheeks delicately fair; and teeth shown in sweet smiling and breasts firm rising and crowning sides of the softest and waist of the roundest.
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“Whenas the lion-whelp seeth the leopard,99 he riseth up to him and prostrateth himself before him because of his wisdom, and Light prostrateth itself to shade for the purpose of disclosing that which is therewithin.”
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Solomon, son of David (on both be peace!) and therein are serpents of vast bulk and fearsome aspect: and what ship soever cometh to these climes there riseth to her a great fish90 out of the sea and swalloweth her up with all and everything on board her.
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When the second scum riseth, skim it off and pour it into a phial against my return from the King, that
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When the second scum riseth, skim it off and put it in
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