All 7 Uses

appeal
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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"Why won't you have me?" he appealed, creeping round the holly to reach her side.†
Chpt 4-6
Had she felt, which she did not, any wish whatever for the married state in the abstract, she could not reasonably have rejected him, being a woman who frequently appealed to her understanding for deliverance from her whims.†
Chpt 19-21 *
He would base his appeal on what he considered her unfair treatment of Farmer Boldwood, now absent from home.†
Chpt 28-30 *
I had thought of that, and I have considered that if I can't appeal to your honour I can trust to your—well, shrewdness we'll call it—not to lose five hundred pounds in prospect, and also make a bitter enemy of a man who is willing to be an extremely useful friend.†
Chpt 34-36
There was something so abnormal and startling in the childlike pain and simplicity of this appeal from a woman of Bathsheba's calibre and independence, that Troy, loosening her tightly clasped arms from his neck, looked at her in bewilderment.†
Chpt 43-45
These were so convinced by such genuine appeals to heart and understanding both that they soon began to crowd in abundantly, among the foremost being visible Jan Coggan and Joseph Poorgrass, who were holiday keeping here to-day.†
Chpt 49-51
"Now," said Coggan, appealing in an earnest voice to the public at large as it stood clustered about his shoulder-blades, "did ye ever hear such onreasonable woman as that?†
Chpt 49-51

Definitions:

(1) (appeal as in: appealed for help)
a request or the act of asking -- sometimes specifically for help or that a decision be overturned
(2) (appeal as in: appeals to youthful tastes)
attractiveness or desirability; or to be attractive or desirable
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)