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Even Grizel got behind Tommy, and perhaps it was this that gave him spunk to say tremulously, "Wh-what are you doing her?" "I have come," replied the ruddy Pretender, "to defy you, ay, proud Sandys, to challenge thee to the deed thou pratest of. I go from here to my Lair. Follow me, if thou darest!"
Why, boy, thy mother's milk is yet scarce dry upon thy lips, and yet thou pratest of standing up with good stout men at Nottingham butts, thou who art scarce able to draw one string of a two-stone bow." "I'll hold the best of you twenty marks," quoth bold Robin, "that I hit the clout at threescore rods, by the good help of Our Lady fair."
"Per la resplendar De , bold dame," cried the knight by the side of Edward, while a lurid flush passed over his cheek of bronze; "but thou art too glib of tongue for a subject, and pratest overmuch of Woden, the Paynim, for the lips of a Christian matron." Hilda met the flashing eye of the knight with a brow of lofty scorn, on which still a certain terror was visible.
"The Priest," said Clement, "is not half so confident of the Jew's conversion, since he received that buffet on the ear." "Go to, knave, what pratest thou of conversions? what, is there no respect? all masters and no men? I tell thee, fellow, I was somewhat totty when I received the good knight's blow, or I had kept my ground under it.
"Thou art mad!" she said, a quiver of alarm in her voice ... "Mad as Khosrul, and all his evil-croaking brethren! I offer thee Love, and thou pratest of death, life is here in all the fulness of the now, for thy delight, and thou ravest of an immortal Hereafter which is not, and can never be! Why talk thus wildly? ... why gaze on me with so distraught a countenance?
For ere that, I trow, we sons of the Achaeans will not cease from our rough wooing, since, come what may, we fear not any man, no, not Telemachus, full of words though he be, nor soothsaying do we heed, whereof thou, old man, pratest idly, and art hated yet the more.
"The Lady and her train." "Saint Taffy and Saint Guenhyfar!" said the warder. "Put forth the bridge!" roared the trumpeter. "It had peen better to send word," calmly returned the warder. "Send word to thy Lord, thou lither oaf!" cried the irate trumpeter, "and see whether it liketh him to keep the Lady awaiting hither on an even in January, while thou pratest in chopped English!"
as thou pratest, 'tis plain that they have willed on the very outset to inculcate this truth on the mind of every man, no barren and inconsequential dogma, but an effectual, ever influencing and productive rule of life, that he is born a debtor, lives a debtor aye, friend, and when thou diest, will not some judicious bystander, no recreant as thou to the bonds of nature, but a good borrower and true remark, as did his grandsire before him on like occasions, that thou hast 'paid the debt of nature'? Ha!
No son of Adam can bid thee come or go, but this absurd pot of heavy-wet can and does, Thou art the thrall, not of Cedric the Saxon, but of thy own brutal appetites, and this accursed dish of liquor. And thou pratest of thy 'liberty, thou entire blockhead!" Carlyle.
"And thou pratest of law! The benefits of law are for him who obeys it; the reverence of youth is for the honorable old. But thou wastest mine opportunity. Thou shalt silence me no longer. "Thy dearest enemy, O Har-hat," Kenkenes continued, "would not impugn thy wits. He deserves the epithet himself who calls thee fool. But be not puffed up for this thing I have said.
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