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  • "Queen Hera," Piper interceded.†   (source)
  • I begged him to intercede for Theresa Carmody but he never did a thing, stood up there on his pedestal with the little smile, the birds, the lambs, and didn't give a fiddler's fart about Theresa or me.†   (source)
  • It was quite possible, he reasoned, that events would intercede before he had to tell his story.†   (source)
  • When Sarty (whose full name is Colonel Sartoris Snopes) attempts to intercede, Major de Spain rides down Ab, the father, and Sarty's elder brother, and the last we hear of them is a series of shots from the major's pistol, leaving Sarty sobbing in the dust.†   (source)
  • The knitters of Barracks 28 became the praying heart of the vast diseased body that was Ravensbruck, interceding for all in the camp—guards, under Betsie's prodding, as well as prisoners.†   (source)
  • Quentin interceded.†   (source)
  • "Respectfully, sir," Langdon interceded, "I can't imagine how a stone pyramid could set in motion anything at all."†   (source)
  • Just spend another term or so impressing Kilvin, then ask him to intercede on your behalf.†   (source)
  • To respect someone's civil liberties to the point of allowing them to wither away on the street, or to intercede in the interest of their own welfare?†   (source)
  • Not even Dr. Juvenal Urbino, with all his prestige, could persuade them to move it where it would not disturb anyone, until his proven complicity with Divine Providence interceded on his behalf.†   (source)
  • But, clearly, you were too much of a coward to deal with Charlie, so I interceded on your behalf.†   (source)
  • According to Luther, people did not need the intercession of the church or its priests in order to receive God's forgiveness.†   (source)
  • Early on, the tb director himself threatened to expel them—and he might have, if Jim and Paul and Jaime hadn't pleaded with a friend of the director's, a nun, to intercede on their behalf.†   (source)
  • Nor, if the Ra'zac came to collect their dinner, could he and Saphira intercede before the slaves were ferried away.†   (source)
  • But when he heard another officer talking about swinging by the courthouse, he interceded.†   (source)
  • Francisco's mother had sent a telegram to President Taft asking him to intercede to save her son's life.†   (source)
  • And in times of great need they pray not only to the Earth and the Sky but to Hephestia as well that she will intercede on their behalf with her parents.†   (source)
  • Jackie tried to intercede on my behalf, but Dad wouldn't listen, and Mom knew better than to say a word.†   (source)
  • She was going to transfer you to another school, but we interceded.†   (source)
  • Bert tried to intercede, but she was having none of it.†   (source)
  • When he fell in love with Rosa and Ferula saw how desperate he was, like a little boy begging for her help, needing her, following her around the house pleading with her to intercede on his behalf with the del Valle family, that she speak to Rosa, that she bribe Nana, she again felt important to her brother.†   (source)
  • Uncle Abner, we are in need a your intercession.†   (source)
  • Blessed Virgen de Guadalupe, thank you for your intercession!†   (source)
  • The Italians under Mussolini invaded Ethiopia from Eritrea in 1935, with the world powers unwilling to intercede.†   (source)
  • Umberto noticed it first and thought for a moment about interceding, but then decided it was not his business.†   (source)
  • I wondered to which of them I might go to intercede for me with Dr. Bledsoe, but within myself I knew that there was no one.†   (source)
  • Washington claimed to disregard newspaper abuse but privately asked Jefferson to intercede with Freneau and remove him from the State Department.†   (source)
  • I am grateful for your intercession, my lady.†   (source)
  • So much for free will and intercession!†   (source)
  • I need you to intercede for me, Magnus.†   (source)
  • "To friendship," I quickly interceded, and the four of us, agreeing at last, drank to friendship.†   (source)
  • The U.S. government has no right to intercede in this area.†   (source)
  • Kwang then leaned forward to offer one to him, but I interceded and poured a third shot from the bottle.†   (source)
  • If you recall, it was the Agency that first uncovered him; we would have exposed him long ago if State hadn't interceded on behalf of several powerful anti-Soviet officials in the Bonn government.†   (source)
  • …could poor backward Poland (Sophie often heard him say), losing its identity with clockwork regularity to oppressor after oppressor—especially the barbarous Russians, who were now also in the grip of the Communist antichrist—find salvation and cultural grace except through the intercession of Germany, which had so magnificently fused a historic tradition of mythic radiance and the supertechnology of the twentieth century, creating a prophetic synthesis for lesser nations to turn to?†   (source)
  • The grimness of her situation touched Ida Rebecca's sense of family duty, and she sent Uncle Irvey to intercede and try to arrange for our security.†   (source)
  • When it has, I will know it, and then I will intercede for you — and we will all be together again.†   (source)
  • I had gone to his Pavilion early yesterday morning, to intercede with him that he might lift his wrath and permit the return of Lady Parvati.†   (source)
  • It was on the eve of the Feast of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin.†   (source)
  • And when Congress reassembled, Calhoun was successful in forcing the Democratic caucus to strip Benton of all his committees except Foreign Affairs, on which he was left only for purposes of a trumped-up story that Atchison had graciously interceded for him.†   (source)
  • I walked for perhaps a block or two until I came to an enormous, glittering, and fashionable restaurant in which I knew not eventhe intercession of the Virgin would cause me to be served.†   (source)
  • Without the strangest kind of intercession he might never have seen her again.†   (source)
  • The Volturi decided it was time to intercede.†   (source)
  • I was quite prepared for a knockdown fight, but Amos interceded.†   (source)
  • "Odin wishes to intercede," said the half-troll stubbornly.†   (source)
  • We will seek wisdom from the runes, unless the All-Father wishes to intercede.†   (source)
  • "Pray for the intercession of Our Lady," she said.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Jake, give it back," Jarrett interceded.†   (source)
  • Intercede for him so that he may gain the joys of heaven.†   (source)
  • Abigail called and asked me to intercede with you on Tradd's behalf.†   (source)
  • "About five or six football fields," Hazel interceded, feeding Anion a big chunk of gold.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes and thanked Sister for her intercession.†   (source)
  • Cesar's friends made no move to get involved, but Cesar interceded.†   (source)
  • To my left, a booming voice said, "Odin wishes to intercede."†   (source)
  • We will seek wisdom from the runes, unless the All-Father would intercede?†   (source)
  • She believed in prayer, in the Lord's intercession, but not in the Lord's willingness to do it all.†   (source)
  • We are prepared for attacks on the palace, and when the rebels attack the public, we intercede as best we can.†   (source)
  • The proof that death had at last interceded on his behalf filled him with the courage he needed to repeat his vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love to Fermina Daza on herfirst night of widowhood.†   (source)
  • Katherine interceded now, quickly explaining that despite Bellamy's warnings and her brother's request that Langdon not unwrap the package, she had done so, feeling her first priority was to help her brother however she could.†   (source)
  • Another, from a woman in Washington State, described how her dogs had interceded when she'd been attacked by a mountain lion.†   (source)
  • Interceded?†   (source)
  • "Whoa," Jason interceded.†   (source)
  • There were hundreds of priests who excelled at their calling but never received this sort of divine intercession—and yet, I didn't want to fall among their ranks.†   (source)
  • The summons announced that the civil and military leader of the province would arrive on the following Friday ready to intercede in the conflict.†   (source)
  • T.J. interceded.†   (source)
  • Carlisle decided to intercede.†   (source)
  • When Prince Quentyn told them that the other Westerosi had come over to the Stormcrows at the command of the Tattered Prince, only the intercession of Grey Worm and his Unsullied prevented Daario from killing them all.†   (source)
  • Roran gripped the gunwale so hard that he drove splinters under his nails, ready to intercede but afraid to appear too anxious.†   (source)
  • He thought of the goddess who had interceded on his behalf and thought the pain might be gone forever.†   (source)
  • Dear St. Felicity, patron saint of those who've suffered the death of a child, I ask for your intercession that the Lord will help this woman find peace …."†   (source)
  • With a sweep of his hand he knocked over the pot of chrysanthemums in the entryway and slapped Nicolas, who attempted to intercede and explain things, and he announced that he did not want to see Blanca, who was to remain locked up until her wedding day.†   (source)
  • She had a dagger hidden in the folds of her dress, and an even smaller knife in the bodice of her undergarments, and the prescient witch-child, Elva, was standing just behind the curtain that backed Nasuada's chair, ready to intercede if need be.†   (source)
  • In the spring of 1823, when John was expelled from Harvard, along with fifty others of the senior class for taking part in a student riot, Adams, in an effort to intercede in his behalf, explained to his mother that he could not find it in his own heart to reproach the boy, since he "did no more than all the rest, nor so much as many," and urged Louisa Catherine to "receive him tenderly, and forgive him kindly."†   (source)
  • A group of merchants appeared before her to beg the throne to intercede for them with the Iron Bank of Braavos.†   (source)
  • The workers demanded that they not be obliged to cut and load bananas on Sundays, and the position seemed so just that even Father Antonio Isabel interceded in its favor because he found it in accordance with the laws of God.†   (source)
  • As to the question of salvage, Ruiz and Montes heartily thanked the bravery and intercession of Lieutenants Gedney and Meade and the crew of their ship.†   (source)
  • They were not told why, they were simply ordered to observe the inspections, and at the slightest deviation from normal procedures-which meant any undue interest in the briefcase-they were to intercede.†   (source)
  • Dear St. John of God, patron saint of those who are ill, I ask for your intercession that the Lord will have mercy on this child and return him to health.†   (source)
  • This was the thought that woke me up: What if Sister Mary Joseph Praise could intercede and free Ghosh?†   (source)
  • "Who the the blazes are you?" snapped the rude sailor as he turned to face the man who had interceded.†   (source)
  • Stone looked up to the ceiling, prepared for the tiles to part and for an angel to intercede where surgeons and priests had failed.†   (source)
  • The thanes must discuss all this in private before passing judgment, unless Odin wishes to intercede.†   (source)
  • The events of a Little League baseball game in Louisville, Kentucky should hardly have merited divine attention, but just as the umpire was about to call the game in Biloxi's favor, an angel's voice interceded.†   (source)
  • I learned about relapsing fever as a schoolboy when Ali of the souk opposite Missing brought his brother, Saleem, to the hospital and asked me to intercede.†   (source)
  • Dr. Stone was a dead weight and only the intercession of St. Catherine allowed her to drag him from bunk to floor, then feed him, one body part at a time, onto the hammock.†   (source)
  • I didn't deserve her intercession.†   (source)
  • She agreed to babysit for Cindy Lou's brothers and sisters and to intercede with Cindy's mother for me.†   (source)
  • Could the Church intercede for her?†   (source)
  • The Virgin by her intercession can win the mercy of the Father.†   (source)
  • Who shall then plead for me, Who intercede for me, in my most need?†   (source)
  • Mary Rommely came over to intercede for Sissy.†   (source)
  • Seeing her with her unskillful hands of rough housework at the brass pins, feeling the two objects together in her lap, Simon went into a rage that made her flinch, and knowing that I was with him she turned her face and tried to find me and get me to intercede; she was frightened, too, to discover that she had been doing wrong unawares.†   (source)
  • She could feel his warm breath against her skin, and Juana whispered her combination of prayer and magic, her Hail Marys and her ancient intercession, against the black unhuman things.†   (source)
  • The Calverts' house had again been spared, due to the intercession of Hilton, the Yankee overseer, but there was not a head of livestock, not a fowl, not an ear of corn left on the place.†   (source)
  • It is in this ordeal that the hero may derive hope and assurance from the helpful female figure, by whose magic (pollen charms or power of intercession) he is protected through all the frightening experiences of the father's ego-shattering initiation.†   (source)
  • "Intercede for me, Master," he muttered, "keep me in the narrow path intent on Thy work."†   (source)
  • He wanted me to intercede with Jim in his favour.†   (source)
  • They shrieked that the train was starting, and ran to both ends of it to intercede.†   (source)
  • O Mary, refuge of sinners, intercede for him!†   (source)
  • But this intercession seemed to rekindle the general.†   (source)
  • He appealed to Lucy; would not she intercede?†   (source)
  • "It was my fault, mon pere," interceded the little princess, with a blush.†   (source)
  • Allow me, then, sire, to intercede for her with your Majesty.†   (source)
  • He briefly related his attempt to win Lucetta's intercession.†   (source)
  • And it is just by interceding for him that you make it impossible for me to keep him.†   (source)
  • Now the father has come to intercede for him.†   (source)
  • Wagg wept before Fiche and implored his dear friend to intercede for him.†   (source)
  • Mrs. van der Luyden beamed on her with the smile of Esther interceding with Ahasuerus; but her husband raised a protesting hand.†   (source)
  • The chief's daughter, a beautiful, dark-eyed maiden, secretly loved Juan and believed in his mission, and she interceded for his life and saved him.†   (source)
  • And perpetually, in the depths of her being, a shy and suppliant maiden would kneel before that other element, the old campaigner, battered but triumphant, would intercede with him and oblige him to retire.†   (source)
  • They implored me to let them, and when I said it was Dr. Van Helsing's wish that either he or I should sit up, they asked me quite piteously to intercede with the 'foreign gentleman'.†   (source)
  • How will the demi-gods in your Pantheon—I mean those legendary persons you call saints—intercede for you after this?†   (source)
  • No, good your Majesty, my punishment was appointed for this day, and peradventure it may be annulled, as unbefitting the season of mourning that is come upon us; I know not, and so have made bold to come hither and remind your Grace about your gracious promise to intercede in my behalf—†   (source)
  • But the ladies interceded, and when it had been made clear that it was a very great favour, the goddess was allowed to mount beside the god.†   (source)
  • Block was very pleased at this and with lively, but silent, gestures he immediately urged her to intercede for him with the lawyer.†   (source)
  • A saint who has great power in heaven, remember: power to intercede for us in our grief; power to obtain whatever we pray for if it be for the good of our souls; power above all to obtain for us the grace to repent if we be in sin.†   (source)
  • The soft-hearted cook added his intercession, and the result was that the man who had first appeared undertook its delivery.†   (source)
  • Benjamin had been imprisoned three weeks, when my grandmother went to intercede for him with his master.†   (source)
  • Adele, when lifted in, commenced kissing me, by way of expressing her gratitude for my intercession: she was instantly stowed away into a corner on the other side of him.†   (source)
  • "Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me.†   (source)
  • I was surprised, and entirely unprepared for this;—but surely you will allow me to intercede for these poor creatures.†   (source)
  • At these words of entreaty the rabbis advanced upon him; and, seeing their intent, some of the disciples for whom he interceded drew nearer; one of them cut off a man's ear, but without saving the Master from being taken.†   (source)
  • Do you wish me to intercede?†   (source)
  • Smike glanced round, and his eye rested, for an instant, on Nicholas, as if he had expected him to intercede; but his look was riveted on his desk.†   (source)
  • O, my excellent and kind friend, intercede with my Rawdon's beloved aunt for him and the poor girl to whom all HIS NOBLE RACE have shown such UNPARALLELED AFFECTION.†   (source)
  • At her entreaty, Gowan spared him; and he deserved her intercession, for truly he was as submissive, and as sorry, and as wretched as a dog could be.†   (source)
  • Twenty times he interceded for Edmond.†   (source)
  • In vain, oh whale, dost thou seek intercedings with yon all-quickening sun, that only calls forth life, but gives it not again.†   (source)
  • The dogs, in the meantime, which had made a dreadful baying at the commencement of the disturbance, seemed now to recognise the voice of him who stood without; for, totally changing their manner, they scratched and whined at the door, as if interceding for his admission.†   (source)
  • Kolya's mad prank seemed to have broken the ice, and Dardanelov was rewarded for his intercession by a suggestion of hope.†   (source)
  • It now became Miss Squeers's turn to intercede with Nicholas, which she did with many symptoms of alarm and horror; the effect of the double intercession was, that he and John Browdie shook hands across the table with much gravity; and such was the imposing nature of the ceremonial, that Miss Squeers was overcome and shed tears.†   (source)
  • Marie St. Clare felt the loss of Eva as deeply as she could feel anything; and, as she was a woman that had a great faculty of making everybody unhappy when she was, her immediate attendants had still stronger reason to regret the loss of their young mistress, whose winning ways and gentle intercessions had so often been a shield to them from the tyrannical and selfish exactions of her mother.†   (source)
  • Let this intercede for me.†   (source)
  • "Monsieur," said Morrel, recovering his assurance as he proceeded, "do you recollect that a few days before the landing of his majesty the emperor, I came to intercede for a young man, the mate of my ship, who was accused of being concerned in correspondence with the Island of Elba?†   (source)
  • —Now, here is Isaac willing to give thee the means of pleasure and pastime in a bag containing one hundred marks of silver, if thy intercession with thine ally the Templar shall avail to procure the freedom of his daughter.†   (source)
  • Newman then went on to say, that the young lady was an only child, that her mother was dead, that she resided with her father, and that she had been induced to allow her lover a secret interview, at the intercession of her servant, who had great influence with her.†   (source)
  • Tell them yourself that I was taken by bandits, and that without your generous intercession I should now have been sleeping in the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, instead of receiving them in my humble abode in the Rue du Helder.†   (source)
  • Rostov, in dismay, began justifying himself, but seeing the kindly, jocular face of the general, he took him aside and in an excited voice told him the whole affair, asking him to intercede for Denisov, whom the general knew.†   (source)
  • It now became Miss Squeers's turn to intercede with Nicholas, which she did with many symptoms of alarm and horror; the effect of the double intercession was, that he and John Browdie shook hands across the table with much gravity; and such was the imposing nature of the ceremonial, that Miss Squeers was overcome and shed tears.†   (source)
  • Rostov, without sitting down, began at once, irritably (as if Boris were to blame in some way) telling him about Denisov's affair, asking him whether, through his general, he could and would intercede with the Emperor on Denisov's behalf and get Denisov's petition handed in.†   (source)
  • The magistrate laid emphasis on these words, as if he wished to apply them to the owner himself, while his eyes seemed to plunge into the heart of one who, interceding for another, had himself need of indulgence.†   (source)
  • But this is not so: he will give many things at once; he promised others; he has sent his noblest men to intercede with you, the flower of the army, and your friends, dearest among the Argives.†   (source)
  • My intercession might easily make things worse for the boy.†   (source)
  • But if the Duke's a mind to intercede for him with His Royal Majesty, it's the lad's best chance for a pardon.†   (source)
  • She shot me a curious look, but turned back to the window to watch the execution of this light sentence obtained by her merciful intercession.†   (source)
  • They were there gathered together without distinction of social class (and a most edifying spectacle it was to see) in that simple fane beside the waves, after the storms of this weary world, kneeling before the feet of the immaculate, reciting the litany of Our Lady of Loreto, beseeching her to intercede for them, the old familiar words, holy Mary, holy virgin of virgins.†   (source)
  • But now that I see your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish whatsoever to intercede on your behalf.†   (source)
  • "You intercede, sir!" said the squire; "why, who the devil are you?"†   (source)
  • "Whatever may be my fate," says Tom, "let me succeed in my intercessions for the poor girl.†   (source)
  • The grieved commons Hardly conceive of me; let it be nois'd That through our intercession this revokement And pardon comes.†   (source)
  • Both our remedies Within thy help and holy physic lies; I bear no hatred, blessed man; for, lo, My intercession likewise steads my foe.†   (source)
  • He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen alaughing, although at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede.†   (source)
  • To him with swift ascent he up returned, Into his blissful bosom reassumed In glory, as of old; to him appeased All, though all-knowing, what had passed with Man Recounted, mixing intercession sweet.†   (source)
  • And now, sir, since I have unadvisedly dropped a hint of this matter, and your commands have obliged me to discover the whole, let me intercede with you for him.†   (source)
  • Hereupon Atkins implored the Captain to intercede for his life, and the rest begged they might not be sent to England.†   (source)
  • Besides, her intercession chaf'd him so, When she for thy repeal was suppliant, That to close prison he commanded her, With many bitter threats of biding there.†   (source)
  • I had by many letters and much importunity, and with the intercession of my mother too, had a second return of some goods from my brother (as I now call him) in Virginia, to make up the damage of the cargo I brought away with me, and this too was upon the condition of my sealing a general release to him, and to send it him by his correspondent at Bristol, which, though I thought hard of, yet I was obliged to promise to do.†   (source)
  • For the Law that commandeth Peace, as the End, commandeth Intercession, as the Means; and to Intercession the Means is safe Conduct.†   (source)
  • I entreated this illustrious person, to intercede in my behalf with his majesty, for leave to depart; which he accordingly did, as he was pleased to tell me, with regret: for indeed he had made me several offers very advantageous, which, however, I refused, with expressions of the highest acknowledgment.†   (source)
  • …an inferior assistant, and that it was very possible she could not find out this Mrs. Flanders, meaning me, though it would save her life, which indeed was true—I say, considering all this, they allowed her to be transported, which was the utmost favour she could obtain, only that the Court told her that if she could in the meantime produce the said Mrs. Flanders, they would intercede for her pardon; that is to say, if she could find me out, and hand me, she should not be transported.†   (source)
  • To Heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond or frustrate: in they passed Dimensionless through heavenly doors; then clad With incense, where the golden altar fumed, By their great intercessour, came in sight Before the Father's throne: them the glad Son Presenting, thus to intercede began.†   (source)
  • I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the greatest aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs;…†   (source)
  • However, the offer which was made to him of admitting him to transportation was made, as I understood, upon the intercession of some great person who pressed him hard to accept of it before a trial; and indeed, as he knew there were several that might come in against him, I thought his friend was in the right, and I lay at him night and day to delay it no longer.†   (source)
  • Coming up, therefore, to the squire, he said, "Though I have not the honour, sir, of being personally known to you, yet, as I find I have the happiness to have my proposals accepted, let me intercede, sir, in behalf of the young lady, that she may not be more solicited at this time."†   (source)
  • Here Jones would have silenced him; but the stranger interceded that he might be permitted to tell his story, and in the meantime promised to recollect the remainder of his own.†   (source)
  • Any doubtfulness of the fact, or any circumstance of mitigation, was never disregarded: but the petitions of an offender, or the intercessions of others, did not in the least affect him.†   (source)
  • The magistrate, upon the encouragement of so learned a coadjutor, and upon the violent intercession of the squire, was at length prevailed upon to seat himself in the chair of justice, where being placed, upon viewing the muff which Jones still held in his hand, and upon the parson's swearing it to be the property of Mr Western, he desired Mr Fitzpatrick to draw up a commitment, which he said he would sign.†   (source)
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