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  • Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day.†   (source)
  • In a minute, he had swum in and was on the rocks beside them, smiling with a desperate, nervous supplication.†   (source)
  • It's true in life as well, where sex can be pleasure, sacrifice, submission, rebel-lion, resignation, supplication, domination, enlightenment, the whole works.†   (source)
  • She looked at me in a drained and supplicating way.†   (source)
  • It's him again, the red-haired man, pint in one hand, the other raised in supplication.†   (source)
  • He came barreling at me and ran headfirst into my ankles, collapsing in a pile at my feet and rolling onto his back, paws in the air, in what I could only hope was a sign of supplication.†   (source)
  • Others stared out at the city with what looked like anger, or surprise, or supplication, or envy.†   (source)
  • With her head bowed and her palms raised in supplication, she looked like the picture of humility; but I knew Isis too well.†   (source)
  • He was ashamed of his attire, worn boots and torn blue jeans (blue jeans were invented considerably before most people suppose), and his hands were tight together in almost a gesture of supplication.†   (source)
  • I left the hotel early, before the others were ready, prepared to offer my final and most sincere supplication.†   (source)
  • He spreads his hands in supplication.†   (source)
  • Blaze leaned forward and rested her elbows on her knees, her forearms stretched out as if in supplication.†   (source)
  • Ruth heard the supplication in her words and it seemed to her that she was not looking at a person but at an impulse, a cell, a red corpuscle that neither knows nor understands why it is driven to spend its whole life in one pursuit: swimming up a dark tunnel toward the muscle of a heart or an eye's nerve end that it both nourished and fed from.†   (source)
  • The woman walked past him, up the steps, onto the porch, into the house, and the man bowed his head as if in prayer, then lifted his head as if in supplication.†   (source)
  • Almighty and ever-living God, who by Thy holy Apostle has taught us to make prayers and supplications, and to give thanks for all men.†   (source)
  • She was tired; her head leaned now on her hands as if in sleep, and she reached out for him, supplicating.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were closed, but the little girl, because of the shadows, her own distance, and her imagination, thought she saw a supplicating and humiliated expression on her sister's face.†   (source)
  • In years past we'd quickly visited the temple, bowing and putting our heads to the floor as we made supplications to the goddess.†   (source)
  • Although his words were aggressive, his intonation bordered on the supplicatory.†   (source)
  • Its blind face was turned toward them in silent supplication.†   (source)
  • As hard as I willed it, I could not draw up anything to follow: no formal supplication, no Bible verse, no scrap of liturgy.†   (source)
  • So Mattie sat there and prayed, but sometimes her supplications for comfort were to the wisdom of a yellow, blue-eyed spirit who had foreseen this day and had tried to warn her.†   (source)
  • She had reached up to lay a hand on Attolia's knee, a gesture of supplication, and comfort as well, and Attolia had shaken her head.†   (source)
  • Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.†   (source)
  • She runs to me, grabbing my arm in supplication.†   (source)
  • Max heard the crack of Dame Mako's fingers as she clasped her bony hands together in a supplicating gesture.†   (source)
  • "Mother," Annie Kate said, her answer more supplicating than responsive.†   (source)
  • The supplication was a cry for help; he heard it for what it was but could not respond.†   (source)
  • And I find it, for example, in the repetition of that refrain of Yeats's, "Come build in the empty house of the stare," with its tone of supplication, its pivots of strength in the words "build" and "house" and its acknowledgement of dissolution in the word "empty".†   (source)
  • He punched his hat back, concentrated, stiffened his hands, palms upward, in a supplicating gesture and began softly to chant Tantun ergo sacramentum, Venere-mur cernui in as beautiful Latin as I have ever heard.†   (source)
  • It was disbelief reflected in the eyes of the gaunt, waxy-skinned young Rottenfuhrer, the doctor's aide, to whom she inexplicably found herself looking upward in supplication.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: A vague supplication.†   (source)
  • But from under a small table on wheels, with bottles on it, and scissors and tubing, someone whispered to him and reached up his hand in dreadful supplication.†   (source)
  • We simply wanted to remind you of the possibility and renew our perpetual supplication for mercy and divine protection.†   (source)
  • In such silence as falls over a lonely man there is child-like supplication, and all arms might wish to open to him, but there is no speech.†   (source)
  • He supplicated the King for forgiveness
    supplicated = asked humbly
  • He smiles at me, shaking his head as he steps towards me, his hands still raised in supplication.†   (source)
  • She fell forward on her knees, head down, hands raised in supplication.†   (source)
  • Mum staggered toward her sister, her hands clasped in supplication.†   (source)
  • He turned slowly to face the Angel, raising his hands in a gesture of supplication.†   (source)
  • The gunman drops his head as if in prayer, then lifts his head as if in supplication.†   (source)
  • Speaking softly, David bowed low and made a supplicating gesture.†   (source)
  • The man raised his hands in a supplicating gesture.†   (source)
  • Dr. Rasmussen held up his hands in a guilty, supplicating gesture.†   (source)
  • But nursing was no antidote: Even with a full belly, Parwana was flailing and shrieking, immune to her mother's supplications.†   (source)
  • She came two or three hesitant steps closer yet, and observed a hand reaching from the earth of a fresh grave, the fingers frozen in a hideous gesture of supplication.†   (source)
  • He brought the mallet back for a final whistling downstroke and it was fully launched before he saw that the supplicating face below him was not George's but Danny's.†   (source)
  • There was something in the hard line of my father's face, in the quiet sigh of supplication he made every morning before he began family prayer, that made me think my curiosity was an obscenity, an affront to all he'd sacrificed to raise me.†   (source)
  • Saeed did not ask Nadia to pray with him for his father, and she did not offer, but when he was gathering a circle of acquaintances to pray in the long evening shadow cast by their dormitory, she said she would like to join the circle, to sit with Saeed and the others, even if not engaged in supplication herself, and he smiled and said there was no need.†   (source)
  • I was still thinking of Mrs. Meany's attitude of supplication before my mother's dummy when the trestlework of the bridge began to rattle.†   (source)
  • The maple tree held the wash up to the light in supplication and received (bright flames) yellow jackets each day, its only reply.†   (source)
  • We left scarcely any marks on Mary Magdalene's ground-length robe, on her bland, snowy face, or on her open hands—outstretched in apparent supplication.†   (source)
  • He had removed Mary Magdalene's arms, above the elbows, so that her gesture of beseeching the assembled audience would seem all the more an act of supplication—and all the more helpless.†   (source)
  • Her face, like her color, was slightly downcast, almost apologetic; and her arms were not outstretched in obvious supplication—rather, she clasped her hands together at her slight breast, her hands just barely emerging from the sleeves of her robe, which shapelessly draped her body to her small, bare, plain-gray feet.†   (source)
  • He couldn't read Ancient Greek, but he guessed they were prayers or supplications to the dead, written by pilgrims thousands of years ago.†   (source)
  • The two bound brothers grovelled in the dirt, rising to their knees in supplication, shaking their heads in denial.†   (source)
  • About an hour earlier, Brett had given in to Jim Junior's endless supplications and had accompanied his young cousin down to the playground at the Stratford Community Center.†   (source)
  • She tilted the ceremonial offering bowl and listened to the musical jingle of the gold and silver disks carved with praise and supplications as they slid across the metal bottom of the bowl.†   (source)
  • Supplication can be feigned, not anger.†   (source)
  • A youth scowled and stood aside as a wrinkled crone hobbled forward, her hands clasped in supplication.†   (source)
  • Pig went over to Mark with his hands held in the air in a supplicatory, defeated gesture and said, "Please, Mark, don't do this to me.†   (source)
  • She darted then toward the fire, seizing out the ends of andirons that had lain in the blaze, and placed them on the earthen floor so as to form an X. She prostrated herself four times, in each notch of the figure, and then reached up her arms as if in supplication.†   (source)
  • But since she seemed oblivious to whether these supplications went answered, their sighs settled around her shoulders too.†   (source)
  • There was no prayer, no bended knee or sackcloth supplication in those words, but a blasphemous fireball that shot forth and went smashing against the gates of heaven, raging and kicking, demanding to be heard.†   (source)
  • Then at last I saw Nathan slowly sink to his knees on the hard pavement, where, surrounding Sophie's legs with his arms, he remained motionless for what seemed an interminable time, frozen in an attitude of devotion, or fealty, or penance, or supplication—or all of these.†   (source)
  • Loathing her father now, loathing his lackey—her husband—almost as much, Sophie would slip by their murmuring shapes in the house hallway as the Professor, suavely tailored in his frock coat, his glamorous graying locks beautifully barbered and fragrant of Kolnischwasser, prepared to sally forth on his morning supplicatory rounds.†   (source)
  • Her arms went up in a desperate supplication for a minute.†   (source)
  • He cursed and supplicated God alternately in his pain and terror.†   (source)
  • His hands were shaking, and his eyes were fixed on mine in supplication, like a dumb thing.†   (source)
  • In the churches there were more supplications than carols.†   (source)
  • One of their poets, Coleridge, has recorded that he did not pray "with moving lips and bended knees" but merely "composed his spirit to love" and indulged "a sense of supplication".†   (source)
  • The Acoma people told afterwards that he did not supplicate or struggle; had he done so, they might have dealt more cruelly with him.†   (source)
  • And on the preacher's face there was a look not of prayer, but of thought; and in his tone not supplication, but conjecture.†   (source)
  • But think, Thomas, think of glory after death, When king is dead, there's another king, And one more king is another reign, King is forgotten, when another shall come : Saint and Martyr rule from the tomb, Think, Thomas, think of enemies dismayed, Creeping in penance, frightened of a shade; Think of pilgrims, standing in line Before the glittering jewelled shrine, From generation to generation Bending the knee in supplication.†   (source)
  • Bracketed to the wall was a small shelf holding a plaster statue of the blue-robed Virgin Mary with her hands held out supplicatingly.†   (source)
  • Gant yelled frantically, wetting his big thumb swiftly on his tongue, and glancing up toward his Maker with an attitude of exaggerated supplication in his small gray eyes and the thrust of his huge bladelike nose.†   (source)
  • Be at rest in your heart, for I will remember you in my silent supplications before the altar as I do my own sisters and my nieces.†   (source)
  • Cynthia!" he howled suddenly, invoking the memory of his first wife, the gaunt tubercular spinstress whose life, it was said, his conduct had done nothing to prolong, but whom he was fond of supplicating now, realizing the hurt, the anger he caused to Eliza by doing so.†   (source)
  • His face gave again, round the room, its convulsed supplication.†   (source)
  • She put an extraordinary force of appeal into her supplicating tone.†   (source)
  • Yet her soul seemed to be intensely supplicating.†   (source)
  • He joined his hands and held them towards heaven in supplication.†   (source)
  • "Say YOU killed him!" hoarsely supplicated the Mormon.†   (source)
  • Lebedeff clasped his hands in supplication.†   (source)
  • She remained thus for a time in a supplicating attitude before she sprang up.†   (source)
  • She tried to pray to God, but it was her husband who really had her supplication.†   (source)
  • The last supplication but one I make to you, is, that you will believe this of me.†   (source)
  • Kim's hands were crooked in supplication.†   (source)
  • Her hands were raised in supplication, but he sternly evaded this appeal.†   (source)
  • Without attending to this, Henry Crawford continued his supplication.†   (source)
  • He laid his hand upon it, and it clasped him with a trembling supplication.†   (source)
  • I am no stoic at all to be supplicating here; but I do supplicate to you.†   (source)
  • "Alyosha, come and see me, come and see me more often," she said suddenly, in a supplicating voice.†   (source)
  • He rose: but finding that the Spirit made towards the window, clasped his robe in supplication.†   (source)
  • Almighty God, hear our supplications this day.†   (source)
  • 'There is no retreat,' said Nicholas, in an agony of supplication; 'no withdrawing!†   (source)
  • He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to Fantine's despairing supplications.†   (source)
  • I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator.†   (source)
  • Listen, then, to the supplication of a despairing woman.†   (source)
  • Up flew the man's huge paws in supplication.†   (source)
  • Villefort shrieked, clasped his hands, and looked at the doctor with a supplicating air.†   (source)
  • "They don't let convicts marry, do they?" he repeated for the third time in a supplicating voice.†   (source)
  • I would have no mercy, Mr. Rochester, if you supplicated for it with an eye like that.†   (source)
  • His gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication.†   (source)
  • I am no stoic at all to be supplicating here; but I do supplicate to you.†   (source)
  • She earnestly supplicated that I would spare her one or two.†   (source)
  • The banker uttered a groan and followed his guide; he neither supplicated nor exclaimed.†   (source)
  • "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone.†   (source)
  • The Saddhu followed the policeman, fawning and supplicating.†   (source)
  • Her supplication had all the sound of birdies in the nest, and Easter church-bells, and frosted Christmas cards.†   (source)
  • By this time the boy was on his knees, and supplicating with his eyes and uplifted hands as well as with his tongue.†   (source)
  • She leant against the chest of drawers, and murmured incoherent supplications for a long while, till she suddenly started up.†   (source)
  • In a final and desperate effort the smiling gaze of Legrandin struggled to the extreme limits of its tenderness, vagueness, candour, and distraction; then feeling, no doubt, that there was nothing left for it now but to answer, he said to us: "I have friends all the world over, wherever there are companies of trees, stricken but not defeated, which have come together to offer a common supplication, with pathetic obstinacy, to an inclement sky which has no mercy upon them."†   (source)
  • The Mother [supplicatingly].†   (source)
  • The padre lifted his clasped hands as if supplicating for his life, and began to speak hurriedly in Spanish.†   (source)
  • Then he hesitated, drew back, came forward again, and at last, to my wonder and confusion, threw himself on his knees and held out his clasped hands in supplication.†   (source)
  • Now I supplicate you, Richard, to whom I belong, and whom I wish to honour and obey, as I vowed, to let me in.†   (source)
  • And although upon eager—and even—after its fashion, supplicating request, he now went with this youth—still he went cautiously.†   (source)
  • …of the Government; for poor sailors, tossed by stormy seas; for the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and Oriental despotisms; for such as have the light and the good tidings, and yet have not eyes to see nor ears to hear withal; for the heathen in the far islands of the sea; and closed with a supplication that the words he was about to speak might find grace and favor, and be as seed sown in fertile ground, yielding in time a grateful harvest of good.†   (source)
  • "I think things are coming to a head," she observed, rather wanting her son's opinion on the situation if she could obtain it without undue supplication.†   (source)
  • In spite of my supplications, they drew no nearer in, and what frightened me most of all, the new man tee-hee'd with laughter as he talked and looked at me.†   (source)
  • And the monster laughed so loudly and hideously that we could no longer distinguish Christine's supplicating cries!†   (source)
  • Joan seemed irresistibly drawn to him again, and the supplication, as she lifted her blushing face, and the yielding, were perilously sweet.†   (source)
  • He threw himself on his knees, and held up his hands, wringing them in plaintive supplication, and poured forth a torrent of entreaty, with the tears rolling down his cheeks, and his whole face and form expressive of the deepest emotion.†   (source)
  • Between the second and third acts she called the company together, and supplicated, "I want to know something, before we have a chance to separate.†   (source)
  • None shall find out thy refuge to disquiet thee with supplications to return to that empty and foolish life which God hath moved thee to abandon.†   (source)
  • Mr. Watson read prayers in an impressive manner, and the supplications thundered out in his loud voice as though they were threats personally addressed to each boy.†   (source)
  • Although the meaning of his tirade was beyond her, she grasped that it was to be included among the scenes of reproach or supplication, scenes which her familiarity with the ways of men enabled her, without paying any heed to the words that were uttered, to conclude that men would not make unless they were in love; that, from the moment when they were in love, it was superfluous to obey them, since they would only be more in love later on.†   (source)
  • For coming through the narrows, we had to lie very near the southern point, and there we saw all three of them kneeling together on a spit of sand, with their arms raised in supplication.†   (source)
  • From time to time, he thought he saw her behind the trunk of a tree, or gliding between the branches; and he called to her with words of supplication that brought the tears to my eyes.†   (source)
  • Then all flung themselves upon their knees about him and sent up a chorus of ironical wailings, and mocking supplications, whilst they swabbed their eyes with their soiled and ragged sleeves and aprons— "Be gracious to us, O sweet King!"†   (source)
  • The lip-shapes that had meant seductiveness were now made to express supplication; the glow on the cheek that yesterday could be translated as riotousness was evangelized to-day into the splendour of pious rhetoric; animalism had become fanaticism; Paganism, Paulinism; the bold rolling eye that had flashed upon her form in the old time with such mastery now beamed with the rude energy of a theolatry that was almost ferocious.†   (source)
  • Bishop Ridley kneels before him with uplifted hands, as if supplicating a blessing on the event; whilst the Aldermen, etc., with the Lord Mayor, kneel on both sides, occupying the middle ground of the picture; and lastly, in front, are a double row of boys on one side and girls on the other, from the master and matron down to the boy and girl who have stepped forward from their respective rows, and kneel with raised hands before the King.†   (source)
  • Then came interviews, mysterious conversations, exhortations, entreaties, supplications, even tears—would you believe it, even tears?†   (source)
  • The change that had come over Villefort during the examination, the destruction of the letter, the exacted promise, the almost supplicating tones of the magistrate, who seemed rather to implore mercy than to pronounce punishment,—all returned with a stunning force to his memory.†   (source)
  • On no other occasion has it ever been my lot to listen to so fervent a supplication for mercy and protection.†   (source)
  • Thereupon the cardinal, hearing the clock strike eleven, bowed low, asking permission of the king to retire, and supplicating him to come to a good understanding with the queen.†   (source)
  • He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.†   (source)
  • She passed five hours by her friend's side, sometimes in remonstrance, sometimes talking cheerfully, oftener in silence and terrified mental supplication.†   (source)
  • 'He shook me till my teeth rattled, and pitched me beside Joseph, who steadily concluded his supplications, and then rose, vowing he would set off for the Grange directly.†   (source)
  • Too proud to supplicate or seek explanation, he threw himself at once into a whirl of fashionable society, and in a fortnight from the time of the fatal letter was the accepted lover of the reigning belle of the season; and as soon as arrangements could be made, he became the husband of a fine figure, a pair of bright dark eyes, and a hundred thousand dollars; and, of course, everybody thought him a happy fellow.†   (source)
  • For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts,—when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth into the sea, for he knew that for HIS sake this great tempest was upon them; they mercifully turn from him, and seek by other means to save the ship.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, as he passed along the file, casting a timid supplicating glance, and turning towards each of those who occupied the lower end of the board, the Saxon domestics squared their shoulders, and continued to devour their supper with great perseverance, paying not the least attention to the wants of the new guest.†   (source)
  • I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space: "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"†   (source)
  • It was a poor, awkward, and clumsy organization, which stood with lowered head and supplicating eyes before a lofty and profound, a powerful and superior intellect.†   (source)
  • Tom's mother entered now, closing the door behind her, and approached her son with all the wheedling and supplication servilities that fear and interest can impart to the words and attitudes of the born slave.†   (source)
  • He was too angry to say another word; her manner too decided to invite supplication; and in this state of swelling resentment, and mutually deep mortification, they had to continue together a few minutes longer, for the fears of Mr. Woodhouse had confined them to a foot-pace.†   (source)
  • I beg you," continued Kovaloff in a supplicating tone, "find some way or other of replacing it; even if it is not quite firm, as long as it holds at all; I can keep it in place sometimes with my hand, whenever there is any risk.†   (source)
  • …towards Volumnia because it is whispered abroad that these necessary expenses will, in some two hundred election petitions, be unpleasantly connected with the word bribery, and because some graceless jokers have consequently suggested the omission from the Church service of the ordinary supplication in behalf of the High Court of Parliament and have recommended instead that the prayers of the congregation be requested for six hundred and fifty-eight gentlemen in a very unhealthy state.†   (source)
  • He went on saying brokenly to himself, "She has supplicated to me in her time; and now her tongue won't own me nor her eyes see me!†   (source)
  • And what had been the fervency of all the prayers he had ever muttered, compared with those he poured forth, now, in the agony and passion of his supplication for the life and health of the gentle creature, who was tottering on the deep grave's verge!†   (source)
  • She talked on, not knowing what her lips were uttering, and not taking her supplicating and caressing eyes off him.†   (source)
  • But she turned away; he drew her back, and, sinking on his knees, clasped her waist with his arms in a languorous pose, full of concupiscence and supplication.†   (source)
  • But remember—ah, good friend, I implore thee remember my supplication, and do the blessed sun no hurt.†   (source)
  • It was no use for me to entreat, supplicate, get angry, or do anything else in the way of opposition; it would only have been opposing a will harder than the granite rock.†   (source)
  • The supplication—everywhere alike, in Lodinum, Alexandria, Athens, Jerusalem—was for a king to conquer with, not a god to worship.†   (source)
  • At last, after an agony of supplication and protestation, I got Dora to look at me, with a horrified expression of face, which I gradually soothed until it was only loving, and her soft, pretty cheek was lying against mine.†   (source)
  • "My feeling cannot change, you know, but I beg you, I entreat you," he said again in French, with a note of tender supplication in his voice, but with coldness in his eyes.†   (source)
  • For the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity, of the honour of your noble name, I supplicate you, Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, to succour and release me.†   (source)
  • Roxy reeled in her tracks, and the color vanished out of her face; the others dropped to their knees as if they had been shot; tears gushed from their eyes, their supplicating hands went up, and three answers came in the one instant.†   (source)
  • And so for from being denied the advantages of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer-time, and there permitted to listen to, and console his mind with, a general supplication of the boys, containing a special clause, therein inserted by authority of the board, in which they entreated to be made good, virtuous, contented, and obedient, and to be guarded from the sins and vices of Oliver Twist: whom the supplication distinctly set forth to…†   (source)
  • In the chest there, I can tell thee now, I have the perfect history; perfect because certified as history seldom is—showing of what stock all these are sprung—this one, and that now supplicating thy notice and caress; and as they come to us here, their sires, even the furthest removed in time, came to my sires, under a tent-roof like this of mine, to eat their measure of barley from the open hand, and be talked to as children; and as children kiss the thanks they have not speech to…†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the struggle, she had written off a letter of tender supplication to her brother at Calcutta, imploring him not to withdraw the support which he had granted to their parents and painting in terms of artless pathos their lonely and hapless condition.†   (source)
  • Ralph took no notice of these supplications, but sat for three or four minutes in a brown study, looking thoughtfully at the person from whom they proceeded.†   (source)
  • When gliding by the Bashee isles we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; were it not for other things, I could have greeted my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication of my youth was answered; that serene ocean rolled eastwards from me a thousand leagues of blue.†   (source)
  • She was immediately surrounded by supplications; everybody asked it; even Edmund said, "Do, Fanny, if it is not very disagreeable to you."†   (source)
  • She sought him everywhere, she moved the hardest hearts with the supplications of her tears, the broken eloquence of her despair.†   (source)
  • She besought him, more pathetically and earnestly, with her little supplicatory hand, than she could have done in any words.†   (source)
  • …have stirred up a revolt among the men of Ghent against the favorites of the daughter of Charles the Bold; it is not a cardinal who could have fortified the populace with a word against her tears and prayers, when the Maid of Flanders came to supplicate her people in their behalf, even at the very foot of the scaffold; while the hosier had only to raise his leather elbow, in order to cause to fall your two heads, most illustrious seigneurs, Guy d'Hymbercourt and Chancellor Guillaume…†   (source)
  • He looked upon her, while she made this supplication, in a wild distracted manner; and, when she was silent, gently raised her.†   (source)
  • The unhappy Isaac was deprived not only of the power of rising to make the obeisance which his terror dictated, but he could not even doff his cap, or utter any word of supplication; so strongly was he agitated by the conviction that tortures and death were impending over him.†   (source)
  • "It will be too much for you to bear, too much!" she repeated, holding out her hands in despairing supplication.†   (source)
  • He supplicated strength for the weakhearted; guidance for wanderers from the fold: a return, even at the eleventh hour, for those whom the temptations of the world and the flesh were luring from the narrow path.†   (source)
  • The gentleness of the Doctor's manner and surprise, the dignity that mingled with the supplicating attitude of his wife, the amiable concern of Mr. Dick, and the earnestness with which my aunt said to herself, 'That man mad!'†   (source)
  • I ought to have sweat blood then, from the anguish of my yearning — from the fervour of my supplications to have but one glimpse!†   (source)
  • So saying, she threw her arms round the officer's neck; she looked up at him, supplicatingly, with a beautiful smile, and all in tears.†   (source)
  • What do you think we have been sitting down for but to be talked to about it, and entreated and supplicated never to do so again?†   (source)
  • The shrieks and supplications presently died away in the distance, and soon the horsemen began to straggle back.†   (source)
  • …when he got to the landing, and began to wipe his face and then to look for No. 92, the room where he was directed to seek for the person he wanted, the door of the opposite chamber, No. 90, was open, and a student, in jack-boots and a dirty schlafrock, was lying on the bed smoking a long pipe; whilst another student in long yellow hair and a braided coat, exceeding smart and dirty too, was actually on his knees at No. 92, bawling through the keyhole supplications to the person within.†   (source)
  • Then her breast began to heave, the tears came, and in her forlornness she was moved to try that other dream of hers—an appeal to her boy's charity; and so, upon the impulse, and without reflection, she offered her supplication: "Oh, Marse Tom, de po' ole mammy is in sich hard luck dese days; en she's kinder crippled in de arms and can't work, en if you could gimme a dollah—on'y jes one little dol—"†   (source)
  • I supplicate you, I implore you on my knees—let me die, and my last sigh shall be a blessing for my preserver.†   (source)
  • My last supplication of all, is this; and with it, I will relieve you of a visitor with whom I well know you have nothing in unison, and between whom and you there is an impassable space.†   (source)
  • 'The great petition that I make to you (there is another which grows out of it), the great supplication that I address to your merciful and gentle heart, is, that you will not disclose this to Arthur until I am dead.†   (source)
  • Levin knew all this; and it was agonizingly painful to him to behold the supplicating, hopeful eyes and the emaciated wrist, lifted with difficulty, making the sign of the cross on the tense brow, and the prominent shoulders and hollow, gasping chest, which one could not feel consistent with the life the sick man was praying for.†   (source)
  • Linton shivered, and glanced at her, half supplicating, half ashamed; but his cousin's patience was not sufficient to endure this enigmatical behaviour.†   (source)
  • At the same time she began to speak, but in a voice so supplicating, so gentle, so submissive, so heartrending, that more than one old convict-warder around Tristan who must have devoured human flesh wiped his eyes.†   (source)
  • She dropped her face on my old nurse's breast, and, ceasing this supplication, which in its agony and grief was half a woman's, half a child's, as all her manner was (being, in that, more natural, and better suited to her beauty, as I thought, than any other manner could have been), wept silently, while my old nurse hushed her like an infant.†   (source)
  • She stammered a few supplicating words.†   (source)
  • Late that night — perhaps it might be between eleven and twelve o'clock — ere I retired to my dreary rest, I supplicated God, that, if it seemed good to Him, I might soon be taken from this life, and admitted to that world to come, where there was still hope of rejoining Jane.†   (source)
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