suppliant

• “Sadness converges into "Sweet," and the plaintive note of longing in the voice of the suppliant is inseparable from the persistent imperative in the reiterated "Be thou.”

  Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'

• “To make the man a suppliant is the delight of her soul.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

• “He said he hoped that the young candidate, if elected, would treat the liquor men fairly, to which the "suppliant" replied that he intended to treat all interests fairly.”

  Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography

• “The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up.”

  The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death

• “He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village.”

  The Huffington Post: Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology

• “And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.”

  Chapter 20

• “On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.”

  Chapter XX

• “Almost certainly slightly distasteful in its depiction of women as cruel and cold and yet somehow entirely focused on the formal humiliation of the suppliant male.”

  Venus in Fur

• “O almighty and everlasting God, Who in the abundance of Thy loving-kindness art wont to go beyond both the merits and prayers of Thy suppliant people, pour down upon us Thy mercy: that Thou mayest forgive us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and grant us what our prayer does not dare to ask.”

  A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses

• “And this same Logos is continually a suppliant to the immortal God on behalf of the mortal race, which is exposed to affliction and misery; and is also the ambassador sent by the Ruler of all, to the subject race.”

  HANDS Across the Godhead?

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