entreaty

• They resorted to entreaty, and besought her merely to make the sign of submission, telling her that she need not in her heart change her belief. —  History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.
• The girl clasped her hands in entreaty, and the older woman evidently tried most earnestly to dissuade her visitor from a proceeding fraught with utmost danger Being quite certain that they meant to be friendly, Iris sat down again. —  The Stowaway Girl
• The State Committee was deaf to argument or entreaty, and the Demijohn seemed drained. —  The Henchman
• This look was a timid entreaty, and implored secrecy far more effectually than her expressed words had done a few minutes before. —  The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"
• His ear is ever attentive to entreaty, and within his faithful breast are concealed the disclosures of the suffering. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

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