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Example sentences for "pray thee"

  • Depart, then, I pray thee, therefore, from me, and leave me to my just inheritance peaceably.

  • Pass by, I pray thee, and take not notice of who I am, because there is, as thou very well knowest, so great a disproportion between me and thee.

  • I pray thee, let us go and find him out, And quicken his embraced heaviness With some delight or other.

  • Pray thee, take pain To allay with some cold drops of modesty Thy skipping spirit; lest through thy wild behaviour I be misconst'red in the place I go to And lose my hopes.

  • Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee set a deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket; for if the devil be within and that temptation without, I know he will choose it.

  • I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this.

  • I pray thee over-name them; and as thou namest them, I will describe them; and according to my description, level at my affection.

  • I pray thee, vouchsafe unto me the same favors which thou didst bestow on this servant of mine, and tell me what events they are which the visions of my dreams foreshow.

  • I pray thee, take thy harp, play and also sing, that I may hear thy words.

  • I pray thee, take good care of him until thou sendest him back to me in peace with his brethren.

  • Now, therefore, I pray thee, listen to me, and consent unto my desire for the sake of the honor that I have conferred upon thee, and take this death away from me.

  • I pray thee, therefore, do not bring down my father with sorrow to the grave.

  • But come, I pray thee, hold up the staff, and swear to me, that verily thou wilt give me the horses and the chariots bedight with bronze that bear the noble son of Peleus.

  • Come now, let us give place upon the chariot, neither rage thou thus, I pray thee, in the forefront of battle, lest perchance thou lose thy life.

  • Lull me, I pray thee, the shining eyes of Zeus beneath his brows.

  • And stint thou too, I pray thee Nurse, say I Nur.

  • I pray thee chide me not, her I Loue now Doth grace for grace, and Loue for Loue allow: The other did not so Fri.

  • I would thou had'st my bones, and I thy newes: Nay come I pray thee speake, good good Nurse speake Nur.

  • Hearken, King, reflect, we pray thee, but not stubborn but relent.

  • Come, I pray thee, make a clean conscience of it to me, instead of the priest.

  • Templar, in a tone where alarm mingled with surprise and scorn--"and to whom, I pray thee?

  • No, I pray thee, speak in sober judgment.

  • I pray thee, get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we would have it at the lady Hero's chamber-window.

  • Thou thinkest I am in sport; I pray thee tell me truly how thou likest her.

  • Nay, pray thee, come: Or if thou wilt hold longer argument Do it in notes.

  • Pray thee, take pain To allay with some cold drops of modesty Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behaviour I be misconstrued in the place I go to, And lose my hopes.

  • And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.

  • And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

  • I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

  • Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

  • So, now, I pray thee help me to the Sword swiftly, that I may deliver her.

  • Discover to me now the completeness of my halls and apartments, I pray thee, O Khipil, and be the excellence of thy construction made visible to me!

  • No more: vnles the next word that thou speak'st Haue some malignant power vpon my life: If so: I pray thee breath it in mine eare, As ending Antheme of my endlesse dolor Pro.

  • I pray thee Launce, and if thou seest my Boy Bid him make haste, and meet me at the North-gate Pro.

  • I pray thee let me looke on that againe Iul.

  • I pray thee, Launce, an if thou seest my boy, Bid him make haste and meet me at the Northgate.

  • No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st Have some malignant power upon my life: If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear, As ending anthem of my endless dolour.

  • I pray thee, out with't; and place it for her chief virtue.

  • Ah, sir, I pray thee to pray to God for me that I may have a child of my lord, for great fear I have lest he leave me.

  • Robin," said the lady, "I pray thee of this business for all guerdon.

  • But now we may no longer abide with thee, whereas we have no will to perish of hunger: wherefore we pray thee give us leave to escape this mortal pestilence.

  • I pray thee, good fellow, be content; I do the king's command.

  • But, I pray thee, who gave thee that name?

  • Thou dost mistake me; but I pray thee, tell me what dost thou seek in these woods?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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