quoth
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Old English cwæþ
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quoth
- (archaic or literary) Simple past of quethe.; said
- 19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby
- Pull, if ye never pull'd before;
- Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
- 1845 Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven
- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
- Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
- "Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
- 19th century, Jean Ingelow - The Brides of Enderby
