suppliance

Across the centuries, they have been stitched into our Britishness as the stuff of folklore, poetry, song – from Robert Herrick's account of Corinna going a-Maying to the belief that eating primroses would allow a person to see fairies, via Shakespeare's talk in Hamlet of "A violet in the youth of primy nature,/ Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,/ The perfume and suppliance of a minute."

The power of spring flowers 2011

Diamonds, king and priest of the age of gold, arbiter of splendour and luxury, would offer up a treasure such as princes before him had never dreamed of, offer it up not in suppliance, but in pride.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

Each page is studded with five stars, each as unique as the century-flower, and, like the night-blooming cereus, "the perfume and suppliance of a minute" -- _ipsa varietate variora_.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

Gerald Lawrence, on the other hand, had been downright antagonistic until he made the startling discovery that his supposed alibi was no alibi at all -- at which his attitude changed from open hostility to something closely akin to suppliance.

Midnight Octavus Roy Cohen 1925

His wife had risen, and was clinging to his wrists, half for protection, half in suppliance.

The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919

Emperor of Diamonds, king and priest of the age of gold, arbiter of splendour and luxury, would offer up a treasure such as princes before him had never dreamed of, offer it up not in suppliance, but in pride.

Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

His verses, when we return to them again, seem to have the very "perfume and suppliance" of the

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

Square, or Kensington Park, or the rosy campaniles of the Giudecca, or the minarets of Sacré-Coeur, or the roofs of Montmartre, or the herbaceous borders and shadowy terraces of English gardens, as its background, must flow and flow and flow, with its tender equivocations and its suppliance of wistful mystery, as long as men and women have any leisure to love or any intelligence to analyse their love!

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

But my gaunt buttress still rejects the suppliance of those mellow fires.

Georgian Poetry 1913-15 Edward Howard Marsh 1912

The beggar made his plea and, with a dirty palm outstretched, waited in patient suppliance.

From Place to Place 1910