All 15 Uses of

appeal
in
The Age of Innocence

He stood grasping his light valise in one neatly gloved hand, and gazing anxiously, perplexedly, almost appealingly, into Archer's face.†
Chpt 25 *

Madame Olenska's pale and serious face appealed to his fancy as suited to the occasion and to her unhappy situation; but the way her dress (which had no tucker) sloped away from her thin shoulders shocked and troubled him.†
Chpt 2

No appeal could have found a more immediate response in Archer's breast; but he wished that the necessity of their action had been represented by some ideal reason, and not simply by poor Ellen Olenska.†
Chpt 3

Mrs. Lovell Mingott confided the case to Mrs. Welland, who confided it to Newland Archer; who, aflame at the outrage, appealed passionately and authoritatively to his mother; who, after a painful period of inward resistance and outward temporising, succumbed to his instances (as she always did), and immediately embracing his cause with an energy redoubled by her previous hesitations, put on her grey velvet bonnet and said: "I'll go and see Louisa van der Luyden."†
Chpt 6

They were the arbiters of fashion, the Court of last Appeal, and they knew it, and bowed to their fate.†
Chpt 7

There was no appeal from her tone, and with a slight shrug he recovered his composure, took her hand, which he kissed with a practised air, and calling out from the threshold: "I say, Newland, if you can persuade the Countess to stop in town of course you're included in the supper," left the room with his heavy important step.†
Chpt 12

The fire had crumbled down to greyness, and one of the lamps made a gurgling appeal for attention.†
Chpt 12

Little did you know that at that very moment I was being appealed to: being approached, in fact—from the other side of the Atlantic!†
Chpt 17 *

"Exquisite pleasures—it's something to have had them!" he felt like retorting; but the appeal in her eyes kept him silent.†
Chpt 24

"Why the devil," Archer explosively continued, "should you have thought—since I suppose you're appealing to me on the ground of my relationship to Madame Olenska—that I should take a view contrary to the rest of her family?"†
Chpt 25

The mere idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonour was inadmissible, since it was the one thing that the Family, as an institution, could not do.†
Chpt 27

This was her answer to his final appeal of the other day: if she would not take the extreme step he had urged, she had at last yielded to half-measures.†
Chpt 30

The fact seemed an additional appeal to his pity: such innocence was as moving as the trustful clasp of a child.†
Chpt 32

This retort to his last appeal might have been interpreted as a classic move in a familiar game; but the young man chose to give it a different meaning.†
Chpt 33

It was an echo of Ned Winsett's old appeal to roll his sleeves up and get down into the muck; but spoken by a man who set the example of the gesture, and whose summons to follow him was irresistible.†
Chpt 34

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