And when I am passed I pray you let him ride after me, and make me knight when I require him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

M. Tui me miseret, mei piget —I pity you and vex myself.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

the town may be with more decency than the ways will now suffer it to be; and, to that purpose, I pray you would quickly pass such laws as are before you, in order to the amending those ways, and that she may not find Whitehall surrounded with water.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven’t your equal,” said he.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

,” said the Prior, “I pray you to remember that Malkin hath as little skill in arms as her master, and that I warrant not her enduring the sight or weight of your full panoply.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Brother, I see your meaning well enough, And through 7 your planets I perceive you think
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

They are like pictures [ 221 ] of sea and land, for there are living pictures in poetry, you know.”
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

La misma falta casi absoluta de claridad producía el efecto de un ilusorio movimiento en las masas de árboles, que se extendían al parecer, iban perezosamente y regresaban enroscándose, como el oleaje de un mar de sombras.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and when I give the watch-ords, do as I pid you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

What a perfect interrogation point you are, Eurie.
— from Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

oh, [Pg 148] what would it not have saved to Elsie and myself if put into practice years ago!"
— from Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends. by Martha Finley

with whom I talked yesterday morning told me about pranks that had been played in past years upon plebes who had the late tour of post number three."
— from Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point; Or, Two Chums in the Cadet Gray by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

For I was at that time and long after, though a Trinitarian (that is ad normam Platonis) in philosophy, yet a zealous Unitarian in religion; more accurately, I was a Psilanthropist, one of those who believe our Lord to have been the real son of Joseph, and who lay the main stress on the resurrection rather than on the crucifixion.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I wouldn't put it past you.
— from The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West by Emerson Hough

The Painter .p> I pray, your Majesty, still a little farther to the right.
— from Morituri: Three One-Act Plays Teja—Fritzchen—The Eternal Masculine by Hermann Sudermann

not but that event had happened through the artifice she had put in practice: yet, as there was a possibility that the adventure of Denham should be unravelled, and the innocency of Miss Betsy cleared up, she trembled lest such an eclaircissement should renew all his former tenderness for that once so much-loved rival, and herself be reduced to all the horrors of despair and shame.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood