And ever the more that Judah waxeth, that is to say love, so much the more desireth Rachel bearing of children, that is to say, reason studieth after knowing. ❋ Henry Pepwell (1902)
THEN when Judah waxeth, that is to say, when love and desire of unseen true goods is rising and waxing in a man's affection; then coveteth Rachel for to bear some children; that is to say, then coveteth reason to know these things that affection feeleth; for as it falleth to the affection for to love, so it falleth to the reason for to know. ❋ Henry Pepwell (1902)
He sometimes uses the obsolete termination of verbs, as "waxeth," ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)
He has, however, strongly warned many civilian employers and advised them to moderate certain tasks - a bow long bent at last waxeth weak. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When he eateth of that meat, of words he waxeth fain: ❋ Unknown (2006)
Quoth Khalifah the Fisherman, “Yesterday thou wast a fisherman, and to-day thou hast become an astrologer; but the more trades a man hath, the poorer he waxeth.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
I seem to recall that in later English someone could say 'the moon waxeth full' to mean the actual full moon, not just a gibbous one. ❋ Carla (2008)
And Pharoah said unto Joseph, Behold, the land waxeth full of wheat. ❋ GayandRight (2008)
Theseus, well we know all the kindness thou hast conferred upon the land of Argos in her need, and ours shall be a gratitude that never waxeth old, for your generous treatment makes us debtors for a like return. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And thus, as the church waxeth rich, her doctrines have unhappily become dim and obscure, as a light is less seen if placed in a lamp of chased gold than beheld through a screen of glass. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Atra; either our mistress or someone else who is of marvellous might, hath so ordained, that here everything waxeth of itself without tillage, or sowing or reaping, or any kind of tending; and whatso we need of other matters the mistress taketh it for us from out of her Wonder-coffer, or suffereth us to take it for ourselves. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. ❋ Unknown (2006)
That river of Nile, all the year, when the sun entereth into the sign of Cancer, it beginneth to wax, and it waxeth always as long as the sun is in Cancer and in the sign of the Lion; and it waxeth in such manner, that it is sometimes so great, that it is twenty cubits or more of deepness, and then it doth great harm to the goods that be upon the land. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And then men cut them, as men do the vines, and then they put it upon an oven, and there it waxeth black and crisp. ❋ Unknown (2004)
For right as the fine pearl congealeth and waxeth great of the dew of heaven, right so doth the very diamond; and right as the pearl of his own kind taketh roundness, right so the diamond, by virtue of God, taketh squareness. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And, natheles, men say there commonly, that the earth hath so been cloven sith the time that our Lady was there buried; and yet men say there, that it waxeth and groweth every day, without doubt. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And also, when it waxeth little, it is dear time in that country, for default of moisture. ❋ Unknown (2004)
