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Nay pray you
Nay, pray you, hold: he is her grace's nephew, Ti, ti, ti?
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

now pay You
I know that the Homage I now pay You, is offering a kind of Violence to one who is as solicitous to shun Applause, as he is assiduous to deserve it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

nice papa you
A nice papa you are!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

not proud you
I’m one that has spoken to a king, I am; to show you I’m not proud, you may shake hands with me!
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

n princely youth
dryhtbealo = dryhtenbealo dryhtbearn n. princely youth , B 2035.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

not please you
I am not quite in harmony with the English in my views, and therefore do not please you .
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

not put your
"Yes; John Bunsby, master of the Tankadere." "Would you like some earnest-money?" "If it would not put your honour out—" "Here are two hundred pounds on account sir," added Phileas Fogg, turning to Fix, "if you would like to take advantage—" "Thanks, sir; I was about to ask the favour.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

no puritan yet
Though honesty be no puritan, yet it will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of humility over the black gown of a big heart.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

never praise you
To your face he will never praise you; but he will never laugh at you nor criticise you.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

not please yourself
You are not in commerce; you are not in Parliament; you told me yourself that you had no great landed estates to give you trouble; you are rich, without any necessity to take pains to remain rich, or to become richer; you have no business in the world except to please yourself: and when you will not come to Paris to see one of your truest friends—which I certainly am—it simply means, that no matter how such a visit would please me, it does not please yourself.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

not proven your
There was an instant's silence, and then the commander said, "You have not proven your statement that our enemy is a male enemy."
— from The Women-Stealers of Thrayx by Fox B. Holden

not prevent you
But he was a land-thief, like the rest; he did not prevent you from entrapping us, and twice he knocked me in the head with his fist.
— from Winnetou, the Apache Knight by Karl May

Neptune protect you
May Neptune protect you!
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

no part yet
By which it was most distinctly taught, that howsoever complete atonement may be, and howsoever, in making that atonement through a sacrificial victim, the sinner himself have no part, yet apart from his personal repentance for his sins, that atonement shall profit him nothing; nay, it was declared (xxiii. 29), that if any man should fail on this point, God would cut him off from his people.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

now prevent you
That is all I shall tell you about myself, except that my power has aided you to achieve your freedom, and will now prevent you from suffering a crime to be perpetrated which would disgrace you for ever.
— from River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron

needlessly put yourself
" "But you shall not needlessly put yourself in danger.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

New Palace Yard
Lord Grey conferred on him the post of Yeoman Usher of the Exchequer, whatever that may be, with a residence in New Palace Yard.
— from The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward (Alfred Edward) Newton

now perhaps you
I am infinitely obliged to you; and now perhaps you will direct me to Carlton House Terrace, Kew Gardens, Greenwich, and the Docks? Native.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 3, 1895 by Various


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