Entreaty

Obeying this impulse, and also a look of entreaty from the Curé, she affixed her own signature as witness to the document, and this despite the fact that both the Marquise and her son threw her a look of hate which might have made a weaker spirit tremble with foreboding. ❋ Unknown (1912)

But O Mesdemoiselles, 'she continued, clasping her hands in entreaty,' you do not know how I should like to come down into your garden and play with you, or at least, 'as she suddenly recollected that such tall young ladies were rather past the age for mere' playing, '' walk about and talk with you. ❋ Unknown (1893)

Please, please don't, dear cuckoo, she exclaimed, dancing about with her hands clasped in entreaty, but her eyes still firmly closed. ❋ Unknown (1893)

I clasped my hands in entreaty, and Uncle Geoff had such a funny look in his eyes that I quite stared at him. ❋ Unknown (1883)

The irony of "The Beggarwoman of Locarno" may be that language is never certain to answer its own entreaty, which is to say that the word Fall can never be as good as its name and become one case of falling, one Fall des Falls, among others. ❋ Unknown (2005)

However, Merv ignores the entreaty, which is held in front of his face, and heads downstairs. ❋ Tyrnauer, Matt (1998)

At first she thought the hoarse plea had tumbled from her own lips, giving substance to her fears, but as Gerard's powerful hands used all the gentleness at their disposal to coax her knees apart, she realized the entreaty was his own, offered without a trace of apology. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa (1994)

There was a note in his voice which couldn't be called entreaty, but was far from a direct orderand I was accustomed only to orders. ❋ Francis, Dick (1987)

The entreaty was the entreaty of a child, a frightened, bewildered child. ❋ Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1901)

"Oh, no, Master Mott, don't do that, I beg and pray of you," said nurse, all but wringing her hands in entreaty. ❋ Unknown (1882)

"Please don't laugh at me," she begins, in a tone of girlish entreaty, which is not bad, "but I have been thinking -- wondering if I could turn my gift to any advantage?" ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)

As soon as he entered into the city, they first offered him food, and made every kind of entreaty that he would sit down and eat something in their company. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

But in the case of Benjamin they plead for a mitigation of the severity of the punishment; and this is a kind of entreaty, that he might not be capitally punished, as they had agreed to, at the first. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

I understood from George, that when Marion's men assembled to trail their net on the sacred beach, the natives used every kind of entreaty and remonstrance to induce them to forbear, but, either from ignorance or obstinacy, they persisted in their intentions, and drew their net to land. ❋ Augustus Earle (N/A)

Why should the court know what indigent circumstances had been the portion of the artist to whom the Emperor, through no less a personage than Baron Malfalconnet, sent an "entreaty" for her appearance? ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

She held out her hands to him with a kind of entreaty not to say so. ❋ Unknown (1862)

As he refused the offered crown in such terms, the Romans used every kind of entreaty to induce him to accept it, begging him not to plunge the state again into civil war, because there was no other man whom the two parties would agree to receive as their king. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

"entreaty" had intoxicated her with very different power from the Malmsey at Herr Peter's table, and show herself worthy of his approval. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)