All 42 Uses of
entreat
in
Little Dorrit
- He yielded to it in that light only, when he submitted to her entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister.†
Chpt 1.7
- 'I do assure you that I am, and do entreat you to believe that I am, in plain earnest.'†
Chpt 1.8
- The visitor, more with his eyes than by the slight impulsive motion of his hand, entreated her to be reassured and to trust him.†
Chpt 1.8
- To see her hand upon his arm in mute entreaty half-repressed, and her timid little shrinking figure turning away, was to see a sad, sad sight.†
Chpt 1.8
- 'No, no,' Clennam entreated, 'don't say that.'†
Chpt 1.13
- I entreat you to do that.'†
Chpt 1.14
- Little Dorrit entreated him to disparage neither himself nor his station, and, above all things, to divest himself of any idea that she supposed hers to be superior.†
Chpt 1.18
- …most unexpectedly finding himself in the novel position of having been disappointed of a remittance from the City on which he had confidently counted, he took up his pen, being restrained by the unhappy circumstance of his incarceration during three-and-twenty years (doubly underlined), from coming himself, as he would otherwise certainly have done—took up his pen to entreat Mr Clennam to advance him the sum of Three Pounds Ten Shillings upon his I.O.U., which he begged to enclose.†
Chpt 1.22
- 'Don't call it home, my child!' he entreated.†
Chpt 1.22
- He felt that it was better to respect her entreaty, and did not move while her slight form went quickly away from him.†
Chpt 1.22
- No. When she had seen her father begging with his threadbare disguise on, when she had entreated him not to give her father money, she had been distressed, but not like this.†
Chpt 1.22
- 'Pray say nothing in the way of apology,' Arthur entreated.†
Chpt 1.23
- 'I beg and entreat you, ma'am—'†
Chpt 1.26
- I'll only say that you have no profession to make to me or mine, and no forgiveness to entreat; and that all in the world that I ask you to do, is, to count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram.'†
Chpt 1.27
- And it is then, Mr Clennam, then more than at any time, that I beg and entreat you to remember him, and sometimes to keep him company when you can spare a little while; and to tell him that you know I was fonder of him when I left him, than I ever was in all my life.†
Chpt 1.28
- He entreated Mr Flintwinch to receive the assurance of his profoundest consideration.†
Chpt 1.30
- And this is what I mean and so I don't deceive you, and consequently which is to stand out is to entreat of you, and therefore why not do it?'†
Chpt 1.31
- However, he returned to his own subject by first entreating her to see him oftener, and to remember that it was impossible to have a stronger interest in her welfare than he had, or to be more set upon promoting it than he was.†
Chpt 1.32
- She seemed to entreat him for a little time.†
Chpt 1.35
- …whether she congratulated Little Dorrit's father on coming into possession of a hundred thousand smelling-bottles; or whether she explained that she put seventy-five thousand drops of spirits of lavender on fifty thousand pounds of lump sugar, and that she entreated Little Dorrit to take that gentle restorative; or whether she bathed the foreheads of Doyce and Clennam in vinegar, and gave the late Mr F. more air; no one with any sense of responsibility could have undertaken to decide.†
Chpt 1.35
- On Arthur's speaking to her of his going to inform Pancks that he might now appear as soon as he would, and pursue the joyful business to its close, she entreated him in a whisper to stay with her until her father should be quite calm and at rest.†
Chpt 1.35
- He needed no second entreaty; and she prepared her father's bed, and begged him to lie down.†
Chpt 1.35
- I have scarcely the right to tell it myself at present, because I have been entreated not to do so.
Chpt 2.1 *entreated = asked
- What I have to pray and entreat of you is, that you will never think of me as the daughter of a rich person; that you will never think of me as dressing any better, or living any better, than when you first knew me.†
Chpt 2.4
- 'Fanny,' returned Mr Dorrit in a deeply fraternal tone, 'you know, with his innumerable good points, what a—hum—wreck your uncle is; and, I entreat you by the fondness that I have for him, and by the fidelity that you know I have always shown him, to—ha—to draw your own conclusions, and to spare my brotherly feelings.'†
Chpt 2.5
- At her entreaty, Gowan spared him; and he deserved her intercession, for truly he was as submissive, and as sorry, and as wretched as a dog could be.†
Chpt 2.6
- Then would that noble or right honourable Barnacle hold in his hand a paper containing a few figures, to which, with the permission of the House, he would entreat its attention.†
Chpt 2.8
- If Mr Meagles had submitted to a glance of entreaty from Mrs Meagles, and an expressive gesture from Clennam, he would have left her in the undisturbed enjoyment of this state of mind.†
Chpt 2.8
- Mr Pancks was making a very porcupine of himself by sticking his hair up in the contemplation of this state of accounts, when old Mr Nandy, re-entering the cottage with an air of mystery, entreated them to come and look at the strange behaviour of Mr Baptist, who seemed to have met with something that had scared him.†
Chpt 2.13
- Mr Merdle has entreated Pa to stay with him in that same mansion I have mentioned, and I suppose he will.†
Chpt 2.15
- 'Then my humble and pressing entreaty is the more,' said Flora, 'that in travelling back you will have the kindness to look for this foreign gentleman along all the roads and up and down all the turnings and to make inquiries for him at all the hotels and orange-trees and vineyards and volcanoes and places for he must be somewhere and why doesn't he come forward and say he's there and clear all parties up?'†
Chpt 2.17
- He replied to her fervid entreaties, that he would never be able to get up the narrow stairs without Bob; where was Bob, would nobody fetch Bob?†
Chpt 2.19
- He charged her with it in no measured terms; and was so urgent with his daughter to go round to the Marshal and entreat him to turn her out, that she was never reproduced after the first failure.†
Chpt 2.19
- 'I entreat you not to take it ill.†
Chpt 2.20
- If so, let us entreat you not to make them a cause of grief.†
Chpt 2.21
- It is you who make this a secret,' said she, holding up her hand, 'and not I. It is you, Arthur, who bring here doubts and suspicions and entreaties for explanations, and it is you, Arthur, who bring secrets here.†
Chpt 2.23
- It was equally vain for Arthur to entreat, and for Flora to protest.†
Chpt 2.23
- 'Edmund,' returned his wife, more wearily yet, 'don't ask weak questions, I entreat you not.†
Chpt 2.24
- Feeling that Young John would impose that trouble on himself if he refused, and also feeling anxious to show that he bore in mind both the elder Mr Chivery's entreaty, and the younger Mr Chivery's apology, Arthur rose and expressed his willingness to take a cup of tea in Mr john's apartment.†
Chpt 2.27
- That entreaty is the second object of my call.†
Chpt 2.28
- 'O! you will never say to me,' she cried, weeping bitterly, and holding up her clasped hands in entreaty, 'that I am not to come back any more!†
Chpt 2.29
- Solely supported by his unimpugnable calculations, Mr Pancks led an unhappy and restless life; constantly carrying his figures about with him in his hat, and not only going over them himself on every possible occasion, but entreating every human being he could lay hold of to go over them with him, and observe what a clear case it was.†
Chpt 2.32
Definition:
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(entreat) to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance