Word: pray
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...happy together. "Not so," replied the Sagacious Brute. "I am an upper-class Animal, and if I accompanied You, my air would be so Awkward from shame at the company I was in, that you would be at once Recognized for the Ass that you are. Therefore, I pray you, put away Ambition." Thus saying, he left the Aspiring Innocent a Sadder, but alas! not a wiser child...
...Pray how can one do more than once...
Tutor (severely). - Well, what have you been good enough to substitute, pray...
Public opinion says so. Whose opinion is that, pray? If Snobling and you and I and the rest of us do not make public opinion here at Harvard, why, who does? Who are the authorities whose opinions are so valuable that they are adopted by all those who have no opinions of their...
...Tell me your aim in life, I pray...