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The trap answered, 'I am fasting and praying.'

From Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

Away with a vengeance! quoth the tanner: I hold thee out of thy wit: All day have I ridden on Brock my mare, And I am fasting yet.

From The Book of Brave Old Ballads by Gilbert, John, Sir

If one believer insult another, the latter should repeat "I am fasting" three times before venturing himself to reply.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But I am fasting, and it is almost noon, And more than time that I had dined: Wherefore from hence I will go soon; I think by this time my meat is burned.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

When I am fasting I do the most talking about how busy I am.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Pearson, Francis B.