“Ingrates!” says the garment, “I protected you in inclement weather.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Intelligabilia, non intellectum, fero —I provide you with things intelligible, but not with intelligence.
— 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.

Who died in prison?” “Your father, man, since he was in confinement,” was the somewhat surprised answer.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I put your suit in there.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

I presume you grew weary of the amusement and dropped it, didn’t you?
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

What shall I put you down for?'
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

I pray you, sir, go forth, And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Now I pray you come on to that fourth kinde of spirites.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

Then I pray you, first to speake of that part of their owne persons, and syne ye may come next to their actiones towardes others.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

Ile bring you every needfull thing: I pray you, Take comfort and be strong.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Friends, I pray ye, wonder not At my thus deciding; For no blessing yet is like-- On the earth abiding.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

You have rejected the sympathy which I proffered you, but have not offended me.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

I pray you in writing to his Majesty deign to recommend me to him; praying him for his ever-welcome blessing; praying at the same time to Almighty God to send him good fortune and victory over his enemies; so that your Highness and I together may the sooner rejoice at his happy return.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

I pray you, father, be guided by the opinion of your good friend, Mr. Jervoise."
— from A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Be not dispirited, then, at the contemplation of their present happy state: I promise you that anarchy, poverty, and death shall, by my care, be carried even across the spacious Atlantic, and settle in America itself, the sure consequences of our beloved Whiggism.’”
— from Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Lynch Piozzi

Sir Proteus, your father calls for you; He is in haste; therefore, I pray you, go.
— from Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

"Sire," he said, kissing his uncle's hand, "I pray you to pardon my intrusion.
— from The Mystery of the Lost Dauphin (Louis XVII) by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

[251] "Why, then, do you demand this proof? Have I not told you?" "Because," said Randall, "you must know, that in this matter I am the agent of another, and that the money with which I pay you is not mine, but only what he has intrusted to me."
— from Charlie Codman's Cruise: A Story for Boys by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

" "I pray you, my son," she retorted with unusual acerbity, "do you want a million or do you not?"
— from The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

I presume you have some religion."
— from The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume