teize

Why, Mr. _Dean_, to teize you as little as I can, I will drop a

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

Black Coat on the Stage, have made the Men of the same Colour of it keep within Bounds: And that a Man might not teize them with the

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Burney [1306] and I and Queeney teize him every meal he eats, and Mrs. Montagu is quite serious with him; but what can one do?

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

It is foolish to teize you about my anxieties, you will feel quite enough on the subject yourself, and your little ones are all ill, and no doubt you are fatigued with nursing, but I could not help writing to day, to tell you how what I said yesterday has vext and worried me.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

I must work while you are here; and I have been slaving very hard to get through with something before you come, that I may be quite in the way of it, and not teize you with complaints all day that I do not know what to do.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

I have got Wordsworth's letters out for you to look at, but you shall not see them or talk of them without you like -- Only come here as soon as you receive this, and I will not teize you about writing, but will manage a few lines, Charles and I between us.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

"O, I know," cried she, "'tis that odious John Groot: do pray, brother, try to get rid of him for me, for he comes to teize me about his bill, and I never know what to say to him."

Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Fanny Burney 1796

'No!' cried she; 'but it is excellent sport to teize his uncle about him, who always avoids talking of him, just like a coquettish Mamma, who hates to hear that Miss is tall and handsome.'

The Old Manor House 1793

Billy desired another subject might be called, for “it was a cursed bore, — and tiresome to the last degree to teize one about benevolence, and generosity, and charity, and such stuff.”

Francis, the Philanthropist: an unfashionable tale 1786

I am not, I will not be, merely an object of compassion -- a clog, however light, to teize you.

Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778