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  • Occasionally, a few churches in Chiapas let her solicit donations.†   (source)
  • It had taken years to solicit this information about where she grew up.†   (source)
  • Transline ran ads throughout the datasphere, placed HTV commercials, transmitted software inserts, successfully solicited blurbs from best-selling authors, made sure it was reviewed in the New New York Times Book Section and the TC Review, and generally spent a fortune on advertising.†   (source)
  • He knew where to post ads on the Internet to solicit college football players.†   (source)
  • Along the way, in railcars, stations, and hotels, he solicited the views of strangers about the fair while keeping his own identity a secret.†   (source)
  • In fact, as a group, the student observations I solicited were on the money.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of clubs soliciting members and notifying all of meetings: there were cat-owner groups—at least ten—a few rabbit groups, six reptile groups, four of them adamantly snake-exclusive.†   (source)
  • During the 1980s and 1990s, children's clubs proliferated, as corporations used them to solicit the names, addresses, zip codes, and personal comments of young customers.†   (source)
  • She was arrested twice—once for theft and once for soliciting.†   (source)
  • In response to complaints from residents, the mayor promised to publicly embarrass men arrested for soliciting, and the police began running stings, positioning undercover women officers on the corner and waiting for would-be customers to take the bait.†   (source)
  • Partners In Health would solicit and receive contributions, make them tax-free, and funnel the money, mostly Tom White's, to Cange.†   (source)
  • We have a 'no soliciting policy' in this neighborhood.†   (source)
  • He detailed the production of various bombs, as well as the solicitation of money abroad.†   (source)
  • For a while, though, I'd tested him, soliciting his opinion on various things, like my clothes ("Not your best shade," he told me about a new peach-colored shirt), his initial impression of me ("Too perfect and completely unapproachable"), and the state of his love life ("Nonexistent, currently").†   (source)
  • Which is a more horrifying deterrent: a $500 fine for soliciting a prostitute or the thought of your friends and family ogling you on www.HookersAndJohns.com?†   (source)
  • He looks across 155th Street, south to the tenements, and he sees a woman standing under the Power of Prayer sign, soliciting her trade.†   (source)
  • Aid groups are also reluctant to acknowledge mistakes, partly because frank discussion of blunders is an impediment in soliciting contributions.†   (source)
  • I'm a little disappointed when the U-Haul is finally empty; I no longer have an excuse to solicit Will's help.†   (source)
  • Fourteen billion to be solicited from a population of 160 million: nearly one hundred dollars, on average, from every man, woman, and child in America.†   (source)
  • Here, people would wave as she passed them on the street, and any question she asked usually solicited a long, slow-paced answer, generally peppered with references to people or events that she'd never heard of before, as if everything and everyone were somehow connected.†   (source)
  • She would not allow him to walk beside her as she strolled the pavements soliciting other servicemen, and she was infuriated when she spied him trailing her from a distance.†   (source)
  • The Brotherhood made a killing on running the methamphetamine trade at the New Hampshire state prison; for Calloway to solicit his own personal stash, he must have truly wanted that chocolate.†   (source)
  • "I got a girl back home," Cesar said, soliciting a laugh from the woman.†   (source)
  • Members were set on the streets with cans to solicit funds for his burial.†   (source)
  • As I have the honor to be an American, and one among the free millions, who are defended by your valor, I would pay the tribute of thanks, and express my gratitude, while I solicit you to continue in your present honorable and important station.†   (source)
  • "Pal, don't you know there's a law against soliciting a police officer?"†   (source)
  • It would solicit signs and picket lines.†   (source)
  • You soliciting couch business?†   (source)
  • One social worker's report had raised the possibility that Salander had solicited sexual services for payment when she was seventeen.†   (source)
  • Here are quotes from their solicitation letter: "There is only one magazine that tells you what is right and what is wrong with our cultural life today."†   (source)
  • Sarah was particularly helpful, drawing diagrams on large sheets of paper and soliciting input from each so that even the surliest lieutenants were soon volunteering their mistakes and voicing suggestions for improvement.†   (source)
  • Brian heard reports that someone had gotten permission to solicit at one of the local factories—four guys had circulated through the place and sold three hundred boxes in a couple of hours.†   (source)
  • But, however casual and conversational she sounds, Julie the computer can understand only key words solicited by her prompts, such as "Okay, to get schedules and price information, say schedule."†   (source)
  • But the image of his wife sleeping unexpectedly dampened his enthusiasm to solicit her help.†   (source)
  • "If you must know, I was soliciting Simon's help with his mother and Lady Markham.†   (source)
  • A few days later, at a stop in a Connecticut mill town, Tappan again scolded Singbe for soliciting and demanded he apologize to the people and return their money.†   (source)
  • I didn't solicit.†   (source)
  • He did the work quickly, first sorting out the fliers and bulk mail and solicitation letters, then separating the bills and credit card statements and other semi-important notices from the other first-class letters and cards, of which there were quite a number.†   (source)
  • They solicit the attention of people who can objectively judge how to promote the happiness of their country.†   (source)
  • "Let's assume he was, as you say, there to solicit a prostitute," Martin said.†   (source)
  • I passed the same taverns and amusement places where the hawkers had solicited me on previous evenings.†   (source)
  • "In the meantime," said Sam, "I suggest you solicit aid of my followers or learn the difficult art of mud-breathing."†   (source)
  • He brushed past the girls who variously solicited him, then locked himself into the phone booth and punched BD-12,232.†   (source)
  • At each, soldiers routinely solicited bribes.†   (source)
  • Richter often solicited David's opinion while Max was relegated to the role of silent spectator.†   (source)
  • To solicit a gift from a stranger takes a certain state of openness.†   (source)
  • Cesar asked him, soliciting a chuckle from Chad.†   (source)
  • Many essays arrived over the transom; some we solicited directly.†   (source)
  • No one had ever come to solicit their opinion on what should be done in their own country.†   (source)
  • I had not gone ten feet when I heard him solicit someone else in the same tone.†   (source)
  • She had solicited room and board for the kids for a week from Emory professors.†   (source)
  • "We're soliciting contributions for our missionary—"†   (source)
  • Many military units sponsored orphanages in Vietnam; many of the troops donated their time—as well as what gifts they could solicit from home—to help the kids.†   (source)
  • At Teabing's suggestion, the BBC solved its credibility fears by soliciting three cameos from respected historians from around the world, all of whom corroborated the stunning nature of the Holy Grail secret with their own research.†   (source)
  • Hayes also relayed to Palmer a few words of advice that she herself had given the architect: " 'I think it would be better to have the building look like a patchwork quilt, than to refuse these things which the Lady Managers have been to such pains in soliciting.'†   (source)
  • DeRose started to solicit ads not only for the district's hallways, stadiums, and buses, but also for its rooftops — so that passengers flying in or out of the nearby Dallas–Forth Worth airport could see them — and for its voice-mail systems.†   (source)
  • The murder charges had been dropped, but he'd copped to soliciting an unlicensed companion, possession of illegal chemicals, and contributing to a fatality.†   (source)
  • Then, in October, out of the blue, came word from Philadelphia that Adams had been chosen by Congress to return to France as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain, a position he had neither solicited nor expected.†   (source)
  • Although we had a very nice sign in the window that read please-no soliciting, I was always having to chase away people selling candy bars or Bibles.†   (source)
  • NO SOLICITING.†   (source)
  • I'd lost nearly twenty pounds since I'd begun my neighborhood strolls, and I'd developed the habit of swinging by the post office box daily to collect items I'd solicited from others.†   (source)
  • She needed a caterer, and it would probably be a good idea to start soliciting donations for the gift baskets.†   (source)
  • Deo had a lot of experience with bargaining, but the whole idea of soliciting tips was new, and, once he understood it, repugnant.†   (source)
  • We glide to the end of Church Street, going past the yarn shop and the bead and millinery store and the cleaner's Renny mentioned, whose Vietnamese owners I met only recently when I went around soliciting donations for the local boys' and girls' soccer league, which I have long and enthusiastically supported.†   (source)
  • Driving around the office parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple pitch: early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to a company's snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the leftovers.†   (source)
  • Then I assume you're going to try to prove he solicited a prostitute, since you're going to introduce evidence about the money he withdrew from his bank account right before he left.†   (source)
  • And they were patrolled by cops on foot, some of whom were equipped with radar detectors and were actually trying to enforce speed limits -- and none solicited a bribe from us.†   (source)
  • I'm, uh, not here to solicit anythin'.†   (source)
  • She never solicited out loud, she just stared at you, hard, and smiled, slick and hard, like lipstick on the bathroom mirror, until you shook your head, no. At 49th Street a beggar asked me for a little help, and I gave him a quarter, maybe two, because I had not been there long enough not to give a damn.†   (source)
  • However: If by ambition you mean love of power or a desire of public offices, I answer I never solicited a vote in my life for any public office.†   (source)
  • The three lawyers squirmed in unison, the usual reaction when an effort is made to solicit exact information.†   (source)
  • Angel and Enrique solicited Maria's address from Padre Esteban, and before practice the next day, they made their way to her house.†   (source)
  • The new charges were read: we were alleged to have recruited persons for sabotage and guerrilla warfare for the purpose of starting a violent revolution; we had allegedly conspired to aid foreign military units to invade the republic in order to support a Communist revolution; and we had solicited and received funds from foreign countries for this purpose.†   (source)
  • At this stage it was decided that I should attend the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement for Central, East, and Southern Africa, which was to be held early in 1962 in Addis Ababa, and, because of our need for preparation, it was also decided that, after the conference, I would undertake a tour of the African States with a view to obtaining facilities for the training of soldiers, and that I would also solicit scholarships for the higher education of matriculated Africans.†   (source)
  • He spoke now, as he had once or twice before, with an odd inquisitive undertone in his voice, as if he might be wishing to solicit Sophie's opinion without compromising his authority by actually doing so.†   (source)
  • Tonight they did not solicit me.†   (source)
  • P. D. had recently visited in the Geismar home; he told me of the great help Max and Anne Geismar had solicited over the country for him.†   (source)
  • But one got nothing by soliciting urgently.†   (source)
  • But the silence weighs on me—the perpetual solicitation of the eye.†   (source)
  • Each solicited the old thing for water, but denied her the kiss.†   (source)
  • Had she gone there—to solicit?†   (source)
  • From a church directory he compiled a list of all the churches in the country with more than two hundred members or with budgets of more than twenty thousand dollars, and to hundreds of these he sent out hand-done broadsides soliciting invitations for Kiyoshi Tanimoto to lecture.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he refused to use expressions such as "your kindness," "gratitude," or even "solicit," which, to his thinking, were incompatible with his personal dignity.†   (source)
  • On small solicitation, she sang for the boarders, thumping the cheap piano with her heavy accurate touch, and singing in her strong, vibrant, somewhat hard soprano a repertory of songs classical, sentimental, and comic.†   (source)
  • He trapped him into public blunders, and solicited audiences to witness his humiliation; he wheedled his confidence and betrayed it.†   (source)
  • Heaven be praised for solitude that has removed the pressure of the eye, the solicitation of the body, and all need of lies and phrases.†   (source)
  • …love, of fame and other single experiences so dear to the callow bird with a yellow tuft on its beak, now come nearer; and shuffling closer on our perch in this restaurant where everybody's interests are at variance, and the incessant passage of traffic chafes us with distractions, and the door opening perpetually its glass cage solicits us with myriad temptations and offers insults and wounds to our confidence—sitting together here we love each other and believe in our own endurance.'†   (source)
  • Then, as he took an eager stride forward, she skipped away like a ponderous maenad soliciting Bacchic pursuit.†   (source)
  • He waited on tables, he solicited for college boarding-houses, he was the agent for a tailor who made Kippy Kampus Klothes.†   (source)
  • He moved about above the crowd in the bed of a wagon, exhorting them to bid, with his hand at the side of his mouth, in a harangue compounded of frenzy, passionate solicitation, and bawdry.†   (source)
  • Ben prowled along, greeting the merchants with a grave scowl, leaning his skull against their round skulls of practicality, across their counters—a phantom soliciting advertisement in a quiet monotone.†   (source)
  • Eliza had allowed his hair to grow long; she wound it around her finger every morning into fat Fauntleroy curls; the agony and humiliation it caused him was horrible, but she was unable or unwilling to understand it, and mouth-pursingly thoughtful and stubborn to all solicitation to cut it.†   (source)
  • He watched her walk from him with tender solicitation.†   (source)
  • You know what sort of people surround her nowadays, and solicit the honour of her 'acquaintance.'†   (source)
  • At length an expressman approached Carley, soliciting patronage.†   (source)
  • "Why?" he asked; himself growing serious at his companion's solicitation.†   (source)
  • At her solicitation Lyman Cass gave Champ a warm berth as night watchman.†   (source)
  • Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures.†   (source)
  • They only came forth gracefully on solicitation.†   (source)
  • 'He means, solicited by him, Mr. Copperfield,' said Mrs. Micawber, archly.†   (source)
  • Arthur mentioned his name, and his having promised to call, on the solicitation of Mr Chivery.†   (source)
  • Her visits there, beginning by chance, were continued by solicitation.†   (source)
  • The latest Paris fashions have arrived, and orders are respectfully solicited.†   (source)
  • If he grants nothing to other nations, neither does he solicit anything for his own.†   (source)
  • Our best-born and richest gentlemen sometimes solicit it without being able to obtain it.†   (source)
  • All these various initiatives solicited his attention at once, and pulled him about.†   (source)
  • The Rushworths were the only addition to his own domestic circle which he could solicit.†   (source)
  • Mr. Woodcourt would have remained outside, but at my solicitation went in with us.†   (source)
  • Noirtier looked the permission which she solicited.†   (source)
  • Well, ask your worthy jailer what favor I this instant solicited of him.†   (source)
  • He solicited the society of no one more.†   (source)
  • Fanny's heart beat quick, and she felt quite unequal to surmising or soliciting anything more.†   (source)
  • It has been solicited on the gentleman's part, but none has been made.†   (source)
  • I mean just that inborn ability to look temptations straight in the face—a readiness unintellectual enough, goodness knows, but without pose—a power of resistance, don't you see, ungracious if you like, but priceless—an unthinking and blessed stiffness before the outward and inward terrors, before the might of nature and the seductive corruption of men—backed by a faith invulnerable to the strength of facts, to the contagion of example, to the solicitation of ideas.†   (source)
  • "Say those pretty lines, then, from Shelley's 'Epipsychidion' as if they meant me!" she solicited, slanting up closer to him as they stood.†   (source)
  • Chance brought her into his mind while it was in this heated state, he did not select her, she happened to occur among the throng of soliciting images, a tiny splinter, and he impelled her by his spiritual force to that place where completeness can be found.†   (source)
  • Once when they had quarrelled about household expenses, Mrs. Cutter put on her brocade and went among their friends soliciting orders for painted china, saying that Mr. Cutter had compelled her 'to live by her brush.'†   (source)
  • They visited every camp on the way south and solicited volunteers, arriving at Pease River with twenty-seven men ready to follow Pilchuck to the end.†   (source)
  • Always she was disappointed, but always she effervesced anew—over the Student Volunteers, who intended to become missionaries, over painting scenery for the dramatic club, over soliciting advertisements for the college magazine.†   (source)
  • This solicitation dropped, alas, as it came: if I could immediately have succumbed to it I might have spared myself—well, you'll see what.†   (source)
  • Then, without any solicitation or encouragement from Duane, the Bland woman fell passionately in love with him.†   (source)
  • He selected one of the cards and read what was printed on it: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS —— ROYAL EXCHANGE WARD —— Mr. Richard J. Tierney, P.L.G., respectfully solicits the favour of your vote and influence at the coming election in the Royal Exchange Ward.†   (source)
  • At her solicitation I let her take the watch till midnight,—it was then nine o'clock, but I wrapped her in blankets and put an oilskin about her before I lay down.†   (source)
  • The latter, having presented himself on a Sunday afternoon, had lingered on through the dowdy animation of his cousin's tea-hour, conscious of something in her voice and eye which solicited a word apart; and as soon as the last visitor was gone Gerty opened her case by asking how lately he had seen Miss Bart.†   (source)
  • He let the conversation drop, save for what she chose to recite without solicitation, and Carrie was not good at that.†   (source)
  • They played a duet from "Zampa," and at the earnest solicitation of every one present followed it with the overture to "The Poet and the Peasant."†   (source)
  • Be fore they parted, however, Mr. Le Quoi, who seemed to think that he had not said enough, solicited the honor of a private interview with the heiress, with a gravity in his air that announced the importance of the subject.†   (source)
  • Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?†   (source)
  • Sir Walter spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.†   (source)
  • Fully persuaded, however, that Newman would not have solicited him to return unless there was some strong reason which required his presence at home, he resolved to go there, and hastened eastwards with all speed.†   (source)
  • …flag-bottomed rocking-chair, with a patch-work cushion in it, neatly contrived out of small pieces of different colored woollen goods, and a larger sized one, motherly and old, whose wide arms breathed hospitable invitation, seconded by the solicitation of its feather cushions,—a real comfortable, persuasive old chair, and worth, in the way of honest, homely enjoyment, a dozen of your plush or brochetelle drawing-room gentry; and in the chair, gently swaying back and forward, her…†   (source)
  • These ruinous huts seemed to solicit charity from passers-by; and on very small provocation we should have given alms for the relief of the poor inmates.†   (source)
  • And old Madam Reed, or the Misses, her daughters, will be solicited by you to seek a place, I suppose?†   (source)
  • It was the pretty arm of Gisquette la Gencienne, which, passed through the railing, was soliciting his attention in this manner.†   (source)
  • I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts — '†   (source)
  • When the chief, who had solicited the aid of Duncan, finished his pipe, he made a final and successful movement toward departing.†   (source)
  • FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief.†   (source)
  • It began for him almost always with the vision of some person or persons, who hovered before him, soliciting him, as the active or passive figure, interesting him and appealing to him just as they were and by what they were.†   (source)
  • In Godfrey's case there were further reasons why his thoughts should be continually solicited by this one point in his lot: his conscience, never thoroughly easy about Eppie, now gave his childless home the aspect of a retribution; and as the time passed on, under Nancy's refusal to adopt her, any retrieval of his error became more and more difficult.†   (source)
  • They are equally averse to both these innovations; and as they are more pressingly solicited to grant the former than the latter, they accede to the election of the magistrate, and leave him independent of the judicial power.†   (source)
  • So I thought one day when I went to London to meet Caddy Jellyby, at her solicitation, I would ask Richard to be in waiting for me at the coach-office, that we might have a little talk together.†   (source)
  • "And pray, what is this business as is to be kept from me?" said Mrs. Glegg, who, solicited by a double curiosity, was obliged to let the one-half wait.†   (source)
  • On finding Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth, and one of the younger girls together, soon after breakfast, he addressed the mother in these words: "May I hope, madam, for your interest with your fair daughter Elizabeth, when I solicit for the honour of a private audience with her in the course of this morning?"†   (source)
  • Brittles obeyed; the group, peeping timorously over each other's shoulders, beheld no more formidable object than poor little Oliver Twist, speechless and exhausted, who raised his heavy eyes, and mutely solicited their compassion.†   (source)
  • One grisly old wolf-dog alone, with the liberty of an indulged favourite, had planted himself close by the chair of state, and occasionally ventured to solicit notice by putting his large hairy head upon his master's knee, or pushing his nose into his hand.†   (source)
  • "What?" said the count, the approbation of whose eye Villefort had frequently solicited during this speech.†   (source)
  • Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch.†   (source)
  • Therefore he had not solicited a boat's crew from them, nor had he in any way hinted his desires on that head.†   (source)
  • They would have solicited the honour earlier, but had been waiting the arrival of a folding-screen from London, which they hoped might keep Mr. Woodhouse from any draught of air, and therefore induce him the more readily to give them the honour of his company.†   (source)
  • A third, in the absence of opponents, between two councils would simply solicit a special gratuity for his faithful services, well knowing that at that moment people would be too busy to refuse him.†   (source)
  • The Eastern claim once fairly settled, and put upon the firm basis of actual possession, Mr. Pyncheon's property—to be measured by miles, not acres—would be worth an earldom, and would reasonably entitle him to solicit, or enable him to purchase, that elevated dignity from the British monarch.†   (source)
  • Morris presented himself with a countenance sufficiently serene—he appeared to have forgotten the "insult" for which he had solicited Catherine's sympathy two evenings before, and Dr. Sloper lost no time in letting him know that he had been prepared for his visit.†   (source)
  • The boatswain, unmanned for the first time, respectfully dried his eyes on the Jack, and then cheering up, and addressing Mr. Wopsle as Your Honor, solicited permission to take him by the fin.†   (source)
  • He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he bestowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solicited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.†   (source)
  • Not merely when a state of warfare with one young lady might be supposed to recommend the other, but from the very first; and she was not satisfied with expressing a natural and reasonable admiration—but without solicitation, or plea, or privilege, she must be wanting to assist and befriend her.†   (source)
  • He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister.†   (source)
  • "I have solicited this interview from your superior, monsieur," he said, "because I believe he will allow himself to be persuaded that he has already done everything which is necessary for the honor of his prince, and will now listen to the admonitions of humanity.†   (source)
  • "And who the devil," resumed the poet, "has amused himself with soliciting a decree of reintegration?†   (source)
  • He wanted to animate her curiosity again as to how and where he could have heard her formerly praised; wanted very much to be gratified by more solicitation; but the charm was broken: he found that the heat and animation of a public room was necessary to kindle his modest cousin's vanity; he found, at least, that it was not to be done now, by any of those attempts which he could hazard among the too-commanding claims of the others.†   (source)
  • Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk serenely on her way, accept the hint of each new experience, search, in turn, all the objects that solicit her eye, that she may learn the power and the charm of her new-born being which is the kindling of a new dawn in the recesses of space.†   (source)
  • …power to attend to private interests, and to fix itself with predilection on minute objects submitted to its observation; another essential quality of judicial power is never to volunteer its assistance to the oppressed, but always to be at the disposal of the humblest of those who solicit it; their complaint, however feeble they may themselves be, will force itself upon the ear of justice and claim redress, for this is inherent in the very constitution of the courts of justice.†   (source)
  • In the United States, I am not sure that the people would return the men of superior abilities who might solicit its support, but it is certain that men of this description do not come forward.†   (source)
  • I cannot help thinking,' said Mrs. Micawber, with an air of deep sagacity, 'that there are members of my family who have been apprehensive that Mr. Micawber would solicit them for their names.†   (source)
  • It was upon the second morning after this happy bridal, that the Lady Rowena was made acquainted by her handmaid Elgitha, that a damsel desired admission to her presence, and solicited that their parley might be without witness.†   (source)
  • I shall not ride any more," said Dorothea, urged to this brusque resolution by a little annoyance that Sir James would be soliciting her attention when she wanted to give it all to Mr. Casaubon.†   (source)
  • His reflections were interrupted by a grey-haired man of a very remarkable, though far from prepossessing appearance, who, coming stealthily towards him, solicited relief.†   (source)
  • Need I say, that it soon became necessary for me to solicit from — HEEP — pecuniary advances towards the support of Mrs. Micawber, and our blighted but rising family?†   (source)
  • He had, accordingly, hoisted himself, during the first verses of the prologue, with the aid of the pillars of the reserve gallery, to the cornice which ran round the balustrade at its lower edge; and there he had seated himself, soliciting the attention and the pity of the multitude, with his rags and a hideous sore which covered his right arm.†   (source)
  • Devotion which is weary, heroism which has grown old, ambitions which are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, what?†   (source)
  • In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow, everything was settled between them to the satisfaction of both; and as they entered the house he earnestly entreated her to name the day that was to make him the happiest of men; and though such a solicitation must be waived for the present, the lady felt no inclination to trifle with his happiness.†   (source)
  • No sooner had Lydgate begun to represent this step to himself as the easiest than there was a reaction of anger that he—he who had long ago determined to live aloof from such abject calculations, such self-interested anxiety about the inclinations and the pockets of men with whom he had been proud to have no aims in common—should have fallen not simply to their level, but to the level of soliciting them.†   (source)
  • "I could scarcely walk when my mother, who was called Vasiliki, which means royal," said the young girl, tossing her head proudly, "took me by the hand, and after putting in our purse all the money we possessed, we went out, both covered with veils, to solicit alms for the prisoners, saying, 'He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.'†   (source)
  • Athos, whose acquaintance I made about that period, and Porthos, who had in addition to my lessons taught me some effective tricks of fence, prevailed upon me to solicit the uniform of a Musketeer.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bagnet becomes, after another pipe, so sensible of the value of his acquaintance that he solicits the honour of his company on the old girl's next birthday.†   (source)
  • Jefferson went still further, and he introduced a maxim into the policy of the Union, which affirms that "the Americans ought never to solicit any privileges from foreign nations, in order not to be obliged to grant similar privileges themselves."†   (source)
  • —4th, He hath not avoided, nay, he hath, it is to be feared, solicited the kiss of woman; by which, saith the last rule of our renowned Order, 'Ut fugiantur oscula', the soldiers of the Cross are brought into a snare.†   (source)
  • She had been solicited, when about two-and-twenty, to change her name, by the young man, who not long afterwards found a more willing mind in her younger sister; and Lady Russell had lamented her refusal; for Charles Musgrove was the eldest son of a man, whose landed property and general importance were second in that country, only to Sir Walter's, and of good character and appearance; and however Lady Russell might have asked yet for something more, while Anne was nineteen, she would…†   (source)
  • Monsieur might have easily seen him in the valley or somewhere on the lake, when he (the dog) had gone down with one of the order to solicit aid for the convent.†   (source)
  • Newman had been a silent spectator of this scene; for Mr Lillyvick had signed to him not to withdraw, and Mr Kenwigs had further solicited his presence by a nod of invitation.†   (source)
  • You may retain your civil rights, but they will be useless to you, for you will never be chosen by your fellow-citizens if you solicit their suffrages, and they will affect to scorn you if you solicit their esteem.†   (source)
  • …said he, "that a ball of this kind, given by a young man of character, to respectable people, can have any evil tendency; and I am so far from objecting to dancing myself, that I shall hope to be honoured with the hands of all my fair cousins in the course of the evening; and I take this opportunity of soliciting yours, Miss Elizabeth, for the two first dances especially, a preference which I trust my cousin Jane will attribute to the right cause, and not to any disrespect for her."†   (source)
  • Emma, my love,' said Mr. Micawber, clearing his throat in his magnificent way, 'my friend Mr. Thomas Traddles is so obliging as to solicit, in my ear, that he should have the privilege of ordering the ingredients necessary to the composition of a moderate portion of that Beverage which is peculiarly associated, in our minds, with the Roast Beef of Old England.†   (source)
  • She had the remembrance of all this, she had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.†   (source)
  • Naturally, the merry Christmas bringing the happy New Year, when fellow-citizens expect to be paid for the trouble and goods they have smilingly bestowed on their neighbors, had so tightened the pressure of sordid cares on Lydgate's mind that it was hardly possible for him to think unbrokenly of any other subject, even the most habitual and soliciting.†   (source)
  • Then he became alarmed, and dared not stay any longer at Nimes, so he solicited a change of residence, and, as he was in reality very influential, he was nominated to Versailles.†   (source)
  • But he was still talking on, describing his affection, soliciting a return, and, finally, in words so plain as to bear but one meaning even to her, offering himself, hand, fortune, everything, to her acceptance.†   (source)
  • As d'Artagnan so constantly frequented the hotel, no difficulty was made in complying with his request, and a servant went to inform M. de Treville that his young compatriot, having something important to communicate, solicited a private audience.†   (source)
  • Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners' — a local sweetmeat — he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!†   (source)
  • He was not only excited with his play, but visions were gleaming on him of going the next day to Brassing, where there was gambling on a grander scale to be had, and where, by one powerful snatch at the devil's bait, he might carry it off without the hook, and buy his rescue from his daily solicitings.†   (source)
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