Burke was thirty-five before he obtained a seat in Parliament, yet he made the world feel his character.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Servant, what is this same, I pray you? Mat.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Accordingly, whenas it drew near unto day, Goodman Pietro and Gossip Gemmata, who had scarce slept that night, with such impatience did they await the accomplishment of the matter, arose and called Dom Gianni, who, arising in his shirt, betook himself to Pietro's little chamber and said to him, 'I know none in the world, except you, for whom I would do this; wherefore since it pleaseth you, I will e'en do it; but needs must you do as I shall bid you, an you would have the thing succeed.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

As for what you do me the honor to say, I presume you mean I was afraid?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"Wake up, good sir, I pray you," she said; "had you fallen into the well, the blame would have been thrown not on your own folly but on me, Fortune."
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

You must have but four here, sir; and so, I pray you, go in with me to dinner.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I will appeal to the law too; but when you have gone too far to recede, do not sue to me for leniency, when the power will have passed into other hands; and do not say I plunged you down the gulf into which you rushed, yourself.' Monks was plainly disconcerted, and alarmed besides.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

At these signals and voice Don Quixote turned his head and saw by the light of the moon, which then was in its full splendour, that some one was calling to him from the hole in the wall, which seemed to him to be a window, and what is more, with a gilt grating, as rich castles, such as he believed the inn to be, ought to have; and it immediately suggested itself to his imagination that, as on the former occasion, the fair damsel, the daughter of the lady of the castle, overcome by love for him, was once more endeavouring to win his affections; and with this idea, not to show himself discourteous, or ungrateful, he turned Rocinante's head and approached the hole, and as he perceived the two wenches he said: "I pity you, beauteous lady, that you should have directed your thoughts of love to a quarter from whence it is impossible that such a return can be made to you as is due to your great merit and gentle birth, for which you must not blame this unhappy knight-errant whom love renders incapable of submission to any other than her whom, the first moment his eyes beheld her, he made absolute mistress of his soul.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And so, I pray you, tell him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And now, if you’ll come along with me, and serve as farrier to my head-quarters’ staff, I promise you that you shall never have cause to repent of having met with Maurice de Saxe.”
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 06, April 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

I am sorry I pushed you, but I thought I heard some one coming down the hall.”
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

Come, your hanner, shall I play ye Croppies Get Up?”
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

So in prospecting your field of immediate opportunities, make the best, not the worst, of your present circumstances.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

If all the seed of Abraham should have been of the religion of Pharaoh, to whom they were long subjects, I pray you, Madam, what religion should there have been in the world?
— from The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland With Which Are Included Knox's Confession and The Book of Discipline by John Knox

Aye, aye, I am happy enough to find you safe and sound, I promise you.
— from Inkle and Yarico: An opera, in three acts by George Colman

I don’t believe she is more a Christian than I am; but I think she is over head and ears in love with you, and she has some notion that she is paying you a compliment, or interesting you in her, or sharing your fate—( I can’t pretend to unravel the vagaries and tantarums of the female mind)—by saying that she is what she is not .
— from Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

Oh! speak, I pray you; don't go on in such a way as that, and force me to wrench everything from you, word by word.
— from The Impostures of Scapin by Molière

But you must allow me to tell you now, what I was timid to say before, that she showed much good sense in putting you in the cupboard, and you remarkably little in jumping out of it.
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett