Requests

Examples

• At this juncture a large part of the correspondence referred very naturally to electric lighting, embodying requests for all kinds of information, catalogues, prices, terms, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Both requests were refused. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sir Leicester, who has covered his face with his hands, uttering a single groan, requests him to pause for a moment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It took hours of my time every day to listen to complaints and requests. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The King hears the reverend man, with a companion of his solitude, telling his beads within, and meekly requests of him quarters for the night. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The venerable Isaac is subjected to an alembic, which will distil from him all he holds dear, without any assistance from my requests or thy entreaty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He sometimes hails vessels and requests them to take letters home from him. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All I now ask, all your mother, Idris, requests is, that you will not see this upstart during the interval of one month. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Yielding to frantic requests, President Grant, who returned to Washington, caused Secretary Boutwell, of the Treasury, to throw $4,000,000 of gold into the market. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There are two requests contained in the letter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If she requests it, I will do it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Editor: Xenia