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  • For some minutes all were profoundly still; Lionel then suddently started up; the sisters, affrighted, hastily arose at the same instant; when, stretching himself and yawning, he called out, 'Pr'ythee, Camilla, what is become of that smug Mr. Dubster?'

    Camilla 2008

  • _ Pr'ythee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Pr'ythee come to bed again; you have been out of it a long time.

    The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

  • Pr'ythee do not send us up any more stories of a cock and a bull, nor frighten the town with spirits and witches.

    The Coverley Papers Various

  • Calling for her hood and scarf, and declaring that she would see if "there was any fellow alive that had the impudence," she was about to set out to put the matter to the test when her husband restrained her with his "Pr'ythee, my dear, don't be so rash, you don't know what a man may do in his passion."

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • Pr'ythee, go up again, said the tailor, and tell your master we have brought him a man that is very sick, and wants his advice.

    The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

  • Pr'ythee allow me at least to kiss your hand before that day, that my mind may be in some composure.

    Selected English Letters Various 1913

  • Pr'ythee don't play the fool now, but give me my snuff-box.

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • TURNER -- Pr'ythee Mall, sit down; you see my lord, my wife will interrupt me with nonsense.

    State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902

  • Pr'ythee sit thee down quickly, and do not put me out; I cannot hold women's tongues, nor your lordship neither.

    State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902

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