Read full poem →So be content, dear Louisa; for one satisfactory marriage
Surely will do in one year for the family you would establish
Neither Susan nor I shall afford you the joy of a second.
Dictionary Entry
To kill or end.
In a Sentence
“By the eighth mile, I was sure that finishing the 10-mile hike would do me in.”
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Poetry examples for “do in”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Make a terrestrial Galaxy,
As the small stars do in the sky:
I walk to find a true Love; and I see
Read full poem →My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Read full poem →Make a terrestrial Galaxy,
As the small stars do in the sky:
I walk to find a true Love; and I see
Read full poem →Make a terrestrial galaxy,
As the small stars do in the sky;
I walk to find a true love; and I see
Read full poem →Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,
O'er run and trampled on: Then what they do in present,
Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours:
Read full poem →See, as the prettiest graves will do in time,
Our poet's wants the freshness of its prime;
Read full poem →What will you do in your surprise
At seeing that changes wrought in Rome
Read full poem →Then briefly as to yourselves:
Walk behind-- as they do in France,
seventh class, or if you ride
Read full poem →And each, though enemies to either's reign,
Do in consent shake hands to torture me,
The one by toil, the other to complain