All 17 Uses of
entreat
in
Wuthering Heights
- Cathy begged that he might be liberated then, as Isabella Linton had no partner: her entreaties were vain, and I was appointed to supply the deficiency.†
Chpt 7
- I entreated.†
Chpt 9
- When I refused to go, and when she found her entreaties did not move me, she went lamenting to her husband and brother.†
Chpt 9
- I entreated, and finally attempted to force her to retire.
Chpt 12 *entreated = asked earnestly
- It appeared dry and cold; but at the bottom was dotted in with pencil an obscure apology, and an entreaty for kind remembrance and reconciliation, if her proceeding had offended him: asserting that she could not help it then, and being done, she had now no power to repeal it.†
Chpt 13
- Isabella ceased speaking, and took a drink of tea; then she rose, and bidding me put on her bonnet, and a great shawl I had brought, and turning a deaf ear to my entreaties for her to remain another hour, she stepped on to a chair, kissed Edgar's and Catherine's portraits, bestowed a similar salute on me, and descended to the carriage, accompanied by Fanny, who yelped wild with joy at recovering her mistress.†
Chpt 17
- She wrote to inform her brother of the probable conclusion of a four-months' indisposition under which she had suffered, and entreated him to come to her, if possible; for she had much to settle, and she wished to bid him adieu, and deliver Linton safely into his hands.†
Chpt 18
- She sprang at her precious epistles, but I hold them above my head; and then she poured out further frantic entreaties that I would burn them — do anything rather than show them.†
Chpt 21
- Just imagine your father in my place, and Linton in yours; then think how you would value your careless lover if he refused to stir a step to comfort you, when your father himself entreated him; and don't, from pure stupidity, fall into the same error.†
Chpt 22
- Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her.†
Chpt 23
- That night, though, he easily recovered his good humour: he was charmed with two or three pretty songs — YOUR songs, Ellen; and when I was obliged to go, he begged and entreated me to come the following evening; and I promised.†
Chpt 24
- Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride to join her cousin.†
Chpt 26
- Catherine was near distraught: still, she persisted that she must go home, and tried entreaty in her turn, persuading him to subdue his selfish agony.†
Chpt 27
- We neither of us lay down: Catherine took her station by the lattice, and watched anxiously for morning; a deep sigh being the only answer I could obtain to my frequent entreaties that she would try to rest.†
Chpt 27
- I went to the Heights as I proposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to her young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not conscious of anything odd in her request.†
Chpt 31
- He had his hand in her hair; Hareton attempted to release her looks, entreating him not to hurt her that once.†
Chpt 33
- I vainly reminded him of his protracted abstinence from food: if he stirred to touch anything in compliance with my entreaties, if he stretched his hand out to get a piece of bread, his fingers clenched before they reached it, and remained on the table, forgetful of their aim.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(entreat) to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance