prier
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"Je vous conseille de vous faire prier," said M. Emanuel, imperially menacing the other ear.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Not being able to find it, I asked a man to tell me the way to it, and he, stopping, said: 'L'église pour aller prier dedans?'
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
But no doubt," the cunning old prier went on, with a smiling suavity in his voice—"but no doubt a man who knowth Edinburgh tho well as you will have a favourite blend of hith own.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
It was to the church pour prier dedans that I went, not to Mr. Church.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
The butler foraged in the coat closet and presently emerged with a prier.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
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