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Example sentences for "pray for"

  • Then take advice and have others pray for you, and do not desist until the stone be removed from your heart.

  • Mrs. Nation I am going to hell, but it is not your fault and I came to ask you to pray for me.

  • Pray for me that I may finish my course with joy, the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus.

  • This was finally agreed upon, and the next afternoon the citizens of the town were called to the church to pray for rain.

  • I was so struck with the idea that I went to the church that night and proposed that we pray for rain.

  • Let all our things to the world be done in charity towards them; pity them, pray for them, be familiar with them for their good.

  • Wherefore, pity them, pray for them, encourage them; they need all this.

  • Come, let us pray for light to Him that can lighten our darkness, and can rebuke not only these, but all the devils in hell.

  • I saw it was as easy to persuade him to make a new world, a new covenant, or new Bible, besides that we have already, as to pray for such a thing.

  • She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion--there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.

  • And a clean maiden I died, I take God to witness: pray for my soul, Sir Launcelot, as thou art peerless.

  • For from hence will I never go, said Sir Bedivere, by my will, but all the days of my life here to pray for my lord Arthur.

  • Pray for me, Jack, and I'll pray for you.

  • I'm sometimes tempted to believe there's nothing for some of these poor folk but to pray for death.

  • That I pray for him,' repeated she, more emphatically; 'that is the way I always think of my preserver.

  • And cease not, venerable man, to pray for me; for I go into the hour of trial.

  • But he also saw among so many lost things a great abundance of one thing which men are apt to think they all possess, and do not think it necessary to pray for,-- good sense.

  • Many people came to Rinaldo, to beg him to pray for them, that the plague might be stayed.

  • He sent the Host with a train of priests chanting litanies as they went through the streets, with torches burning in the pure early daylight; some of these exhorted the people who knelt as they passed, to pray for her.

  • I beg of you to pray for me; for soon I shall no longer have any power to serve the King and the kingdom.

  • Still worse than the giving up of Franquet was the supposed resuscitation of a child, born dead, which its parents implored her to pray for that it might live again to be baptised.

  • Asked if she wished that a beautiful procession should be made for her to restore her to health, she answered that she would be glad if the Church and the Catholics would pray for her.

  • Pray for me,' she writes during her marvellous Portsmouth campaign.

  • Pray for me,' she wrote to her mother, when the question was about to be settled.

  • Let us pray for grace to do it in the best way and to the fullest extent possible.

  • Then again, a little later on:-- 'Pray for me.

  • With these words, she made the sign of the cross upon the forehead of each, kissed them, and recommended them to pray for her.

  • Indeed, the world was grown so dull that there was nothing left to pray for--or against.

  • Pray for me, all of you; and God keep you!

  • Come, let us pray for light to Him that can give it.

  • But as the poor babes' cries were loud for want of rest, all fell on their knees to pray for help.

  • So he went to his room to pray for them, as well as to nurse his own grief.

  • How often he broke off in the composition to pray for strength to rescue his honor, and save himself from the inflictions of conscience!

  • And what more natural than that he should see that mother descending to the chapel in her widow's weeds to pray for him?

  • She is coming down the road--there, behind the dancing lights, behind the friars, she is coming to pray for him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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