All 4 Uses of
appeal
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- "Why, Robert sent word down by his daughter Nancy and she said you wanted a girl—didn't she Flora Jane?" appealing to her daughter who had come out to the steps.
p. 42.8appealing = asking for agreement
- Marilla felt an uncomfortable conviction that, if she denied the appeal of that look, it would haunt her to her dying day.
p. 45.0 *appeal = request for help
- The amiable suggestion of the birch switch—to the efficiency of which all of Mrs. Rachel's own children could have borne smarting testimony—did not appeal to Marilla.
p. 64.8 *appeal = seem desirable or attractive
- The suggestion appealed to Diana.
p. 150.1appealed = was attractive or desirable
Definitions:
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(1)
(appeal as in: appealed for help) a request or the act of asking -- sometimes specifically for help or that a decision be overturned
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(2)
(appeal as in: appeals to youthful tastes) attractiveness or desirability; or to be attractive or desirable