Pleading

Examples

• The confession of her heart's secret burst from her in those pleading words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The other said: Ah, that wonderful face is so humble, so pleading--it says as plainly as words could say it: 'I fear; I tremble; I am unworthy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Perhaps, she continued, getting into a pleading tone, my uncle has not told you how serious Mr. Casaubon's illness was. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Whether they received any pecuniary reward for pleading, or delivering their opinions? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But you do--you do make it harder to me, said Bulstrode constrained into a genuine, pleading cry. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had promised to meet Wildeve by the Barrow this very night at eight, to give a final answer to his pleading for an elopement. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His expression was pleading rather than ferocious, nor did he bare his great tusks or utter his fearful guttural warnings. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The girl came close to him, looking up with pleading eyes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Graham waxed inexorable on hearing the pleading tone; he took the scissors from his mother's work-basket. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The answer checked the pleading on Archer's lips: it seemed to come from depths of experience beyond his reach. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Mr. Hale took hold of her sweet pleading face in both his hands, and kissed her forehead. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The pleading of the feminine--' Mr Fledgeby began, and there stuck so long for a word to get on with, that Mrs Lammle offered him sweetly, 'Heart? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The possibility of the young man's coming to Mrs. Goddard's that morning, and meeting with Harriet and pleading his own cause, gave alarming ideas. Jane Austen. Emma.
• My concern is with method rather than with special pleadings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At last she slept; with many starts, and muttered pleadings. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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