Turgot, Memoire sur le Pret d'Argent, 1769, had to have recourse to, to prove the clearest matters.
She then sat down quietly, placing herself sentry over her hidden treasure, while the intruding Cat entered the room, walked up to the plate, and finished the little scraps of meat that Pret had thought fit to leave.
After the obnoxious individual had left the room, Pret brought her concealed treasures from their hiding-place and consumed them with deliberation.
Gentle as she was in her ordinary demeanour, Pret was a terrible Cat when she saw cause, and was undaunted by size or numbers.
At the sound of a thunderclap poor Pretwould fly to her mistress for succour, trembling in every limb.
If the thunder came on by day, Pret would climb on her mistress's knees, put her paws round her neck and hide her face between them with deliberation.
However, Pret soon got over the difficulty, by going to the plate as soon as it was placed at her accustomed spot, picking out all the large pieces of meat and hiding them under the table.
It was absolutely necessary to release the kittens from their painful position, and to teach Pret how a kitten ought to be carried.
When Pret became a mother, and desired to transport her kittens from one place to another, she followed her acquired habit of porterage, and tried to carry her kittens about by the tips of their tails.
Clever as Pret was, she sometimes displayed a most unexpected simplicity of character.
If the dreaded sound occurred in the night or early morning, Pret would leap on the bed and crawl under the clothes as far as the very foot.
The Pret is occasionally under provocation malignant, but as it partakes to some degree of the functions of the benign ancestral household spirit, it is not necessarily malicious or evil-disposed towards living persons.
In the evening she brought in one containing the nightgown and nightcap, and the stockings for the next morning; this basket was called pret de la nuit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pret" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
