pratest

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