Read full poem →Then if they stray, but warn ’em ; and the same
They would for virtue do, they’ll do for shame.
Dictionary Entry
To doom; to bring about the demise of
In a Sentence
“She's done for!”
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Poetry examples for “do for”
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Read full poem →We'll start with seat number one and we will go around the class. Now,
Marie, what does your father do for a living?”
Read full poem →*“ Rich Aunts and Uncles never die;
‘« And what you bring won’t do for dress ;
‘« And so you'll live on Bye-and-bye, é
Read full poem →your neck on the cobble stones. [Zo Stubbs]. Well, what ¢ can ni
do for you? tin a 3
Read full poem →O my dear Saviour, Victory!
Then for thy passion - I will do for that -
Alas, my God, I know not what.
Read full poem →Do for this radiant Greek-soul'd artist cease;
Sole object of her dying eyes remain
Read full poem →He hath duggen a grave by the darksome yew,
(One grave will do for four.)
Read full poem →He hath duggen a grave by the darksome yew,
(One grave will do for four.)
Read full poem →Ever to grind to soil for grass.
(The way it is will do for moss.)
There he had built his stolen shack.
Read full poem →I do so, I should be like unto thee: but I am come that by me, and by
what I have and shall do for Mansoul, they may to my Father be
reconciled, though by their sin they have provoked him to anger, and