All 15 Uses
entreat
in
A Tale of Two Cities
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- I entreat you to tell me more, sir.†
Chpt 1.4 *entreat = ask earnestly
- But she sat perfectly still in his grasp, and only said, in a low voice, "I entreat you, good gentlemen, do not come near us, do not speak, do not move!"†
Chpt 1.6
- Which I entreated you to believe, again and again, most fervently, with all my heart, was capable of better things, Mr. Carton!†
Chpt 2.13entreated = asked earnestly
- Entreat me to believe it no more, Miss Manette.†
Chpt 2.13entreat = ask earnestly
- torn, bruised, panting, bleeding, yet always entreating and beseeching for mercy;†
Chpt 2.22entreating = asking earnestly
- I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-countryman which lies before you.†
Chpt 3.1entreat = ask earnestly
- Charles Darnay felt it hopeless to entreat him further, and his pride was touched besides.†
Chpt 3.1
- He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence.†
Chpt 3.6entreaty = an earnest request
- In this car of triumph, not even the Doctor's entreaties could prevent his being carried to his home on men's shoulders, with a confused sea of red caps heaving about him, and casting up to sight from the stormy deep such wrecks of faces, that he more than once misdoubted his mind being in confusion, and that he was in the tumbril on his way to the Guillotine.†
Chpt 3.6entreaties = earnest requests
- "One word," the Doctor entreated.†
Chpt 3.7entreated = asked earnestly
- He entreated her, for her father's sake, never to seek to know whether her father had become oblivious of the existence of the paper, or had had it recalled to him (for the moment, or for good), by the story of the Tower, on that old Sunday under the dear old plane-tree in the garden.†
Chpt 3.13
- A most earnest, pressing, and emphatic entreaty, addressed to you in the most pathetic tones of the voice so dear to you, that you well remember.†
Chpt 3.13entreaty = an earnest request
- Be careful of my friend, I entreat you, and leave me.†
Chpt 3.13entreat = ask earnestly
- This exordium, and Miss Pross's two hands in quite agonised entreaty clasping his, decided Mr. Cruncher.†
Chpt 3.14entreaty = an earnest request
- "Hush, hush!" the Spy entreats him, timidly.†
Chpt 3.15entreats = asks earnestly
Definitions:
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(1)
(entreat) to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)