Sentence examples for thou is a from inspiring English sources
"Compared to what he pays for an hour of Wu-Tang Clan, sixty thou is a bargain," he said.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a zany Depression tale - claiming kinship with both Homer's Odyssey and Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels - about three Mississippi chain gang prisoners on the run and looking for buried loot.
The history of religion as described by Buber in the closing words of I and Thou is a contracting, intensifying spiral figure that has redemption as its telos.
(*Unless thou is a music critic taking notes).
If thou be a papist, there shalt thou want no kind of superstition to feed upon.
HAMLET: Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?
If thou be a gospeler, no man shall ask why thou comest not to [the Catholic] church.
If thou be a Jew, a Turk, or believest in the devil (so thou spread not thine opinions abroad), thou art free from all controlment. . . .
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum; That frae November till October, Ae market-day thou was nae sober; That ilka melder, wi' the miller, Thou sat as lang as thou had siller; That every naig was ca'd a shoe on, The smith and thee gat roaring fou on; That at the Lord's house, even on Sunday, Thou drank wi' Kirkton Jean till Monday.
Having lost his patience, the bishop retorted, "Thou are an overthwart, proud, puritan knave".
