English example sentences with "thrice"

Measure thrice, cut once.
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Are you making fun of me or what? That's thrice now that I've told you to stop talking and to pay attention to the class.
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I've had black rice congee thrice in one day!
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Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Harpier cries "'Tis time, 'tis time".
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If he does that again, let the punishment be harsher, and in addition, let penance be imposed on him, but if he does that thrice, let him be executed.
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If I were you, I wouldn't think twice — but thrice.
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Twice and thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name.
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With a sudden chill weakening every part of his body, Aeneas groans and, stretching both hands to the stars, cries out thus: "O thrice and four times blessed, whose lot it was to perish before the faces of their fathers under the high walls of Troy!"
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Then AEneas' limbs with fear / were loosened, and he groaned and stretched his hands in prayer. / "Thrice, four times blest, who, in their fathers' face / fell by the walls of Ilion far away!"
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One, that bore / the brave Orontes and his Lycian crew, / full in AEneas' sight a toppling wave o'erthrew. / Dashed from the tiller, down the pilot rolled. / Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, / then whelmed below.
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Thrice had Achilles round the Trojan wall / dragged Hector; there the slayer sells the slain.
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"O queen, a tale too true, / too sad for words, thou biddest me repeat; / how Ilion perished, and the Danaan crew / her power and all her wailful realm o'erthrew: / the woes I saw, thrice piteous to behold, / and largely shared."
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"Scarce stood her image in the camp, when bright / with flickering flames her staring eyeballs glared. / Salt sweat ran down her; thrice, a wondrous sight! / with shield and quivering spear she sprang upright."
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Thrice round the neck with longing I essayed / to clasp the phantom in a wild delight; / thrice, vainly clasped, the visionary shade / mocked me embracing, and was lost to sight, / swift as a winged wind or slumber of the night.
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So to his shade, with funeral rites, we rear / a mound, and altars to the dead prepare, / wreathed with dark cypress. Round them, as of yore, / pace Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair. / Warm milk from bowls, and holy blood we pour, / and thrice with loud farewell the peaceful shade deplore.
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"Here Scylla, leftward sits Charybdis fell, / who, yawning thrice, her lowest depths laid bare, / sucks the vast billows in her throat's dark hell, / then starward spouts the refluent surge in air."
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Thrice roar the caverned shore-cliffs, thrice the spray / whirls up and wets the dewy stars on high.
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Henricus: But these old fellows are good. Hugitio: How knowest thou? Hen: Because I drank with them thrice by the road extraordinary good ale. Hug: Ha, ha, hae, so they are good with thee.

The answer is no, no, and thrice no!

Thrice did you fight, O Romans, with the Carthaginians.