Interjection
(archaic) Please explain (something the requester does not yet understand).
Pray tell us, how will they fare while you are away?
(idiomatic, usually sarcastic) Expressing incredulity, please explain (some claim or position the speaker doubts).
But how, pray tell, do you "notice" something that happens when you're asleep?
Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you're lagging, I may remember him! Emily Dickinson
But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us." "You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is? Cassandra Clare
You are mortal. You age, you die. If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is? Cassandra Clare
Pray tell me, does your time lie so heavy upon you in your world that you do not know how to bestow it better than in thus impudently talking, disputing, and writing of our sovereign lady? François Rabelais