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  • So saying, the Ifrit Dahnash bowed his head towards the earth and drooped his wings downward; but Maymunah laughed at his words and spat in his face and answered, What is this girl of whom thou pratest but a potsherd wherewith to wipe after making water?

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the other day and called me.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • How comes it to pass then, said he, Theognis that thou thyself being so poor pratest and gratest our ears in this manner?

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy trencher, hence!

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus 2004

  • But when thou pratest of thy honors, thou dost but enrage them.

    A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

  • ‘Wretched guest, surely thou art some brain-struck man, seeing that thou dost not choose to go and sleep at a smithy, or at some place of common resort, but here thou pratest much and boldly among many lords and hast no fear at heart.

    Book XVIII Homer 1909

  • ‘Ah, wretch that thou art, right soon will I work thee mischief, so boldly thou pratest among many lords, and hast no fear at heart.

    Book XVIII Homer 1909

  • Of thyself thou canst say nothing and if the cobbler hath taught thee to say _Ave Cæsar_ disdain not thy tutor because thou pratest in a King's chamber.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • ` ` Go to, knave, what pratest thou of conversions?

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • "An thou speakest another word in such strain of those who have favored us with naught save kindness, I will report thee to that same lash of which thou pratest so glibly."

    The Flamingo Feather Kirk Munroe 1890

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