"Pr" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mine. Now give the proof of your obedience To your imperious lord! Strike, if you dare! I'll wake your baby if you lift your hand. Ha! king; ha! poet; who is master now— Baby or husband? Pr'ythee, tell me that. Were I a man,—thank Heaven I am not!— And had a wife who cared not for my will More than your wife for yours, I'd hang myself, Or wear an [***]. See! ...
— Bitter-Sweet • J. G. Holland
... bursting all his sinews, and making his eyes start out of his head, in pulling his ship off a rock, whereby he saved to his owners"——Here he was interrupted by the captain, who exclaimed, "Belay, Tom, belay; pr'ythee, don't veer out such a deal of jaw. Clap a stopper on thy cable and bring thyself up, my lad—what a deal of stuff thou has pumped up concerning bursting and starting, and pulling ships; Laud have mercy upon ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... Theron, though with considerable tolerance for her error in his tone. "But you ought to tell me something about this Dr. Ledsmar. He spoke of being an old friend of the pr—of Father Forbes." ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... pr'ythee—Peace, good woman," said the preacher, who had just recovered from a violent fit of coughing, and found his own anathema borne down by Mause's better wind; "peace, and take not the word out of the mouth ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... au calme rompu par une rplique si bien parle: Sans doute dis-je, ce qu'il profre est tout son fonds et son bagage, pris quelque malheureux matre que l'impitoyable Dsastre suivit de prs et de trs-prs suivit jusqu' ce que ses chansons comportassent un unique refrain; jusqu' ce que les chants funbres de son Esprance comportassent le mlancolique refrain ...
— Le Corbeau • Edgar Allan Poe
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