suppliant

• 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
• This studious-looking, fever-stricken soldier, a nobleman under a bygone regime and in his youth a great amateur of love, had known well many women of whom this suppliant was the virtual counterpart, fragile, complex, too sensitive, too ardent, the predestined prey of impulses and disabilities that none but themselves, their adorers, and specialists in neurasthenia, could conceive of. —  Sacrifice
• We wouldn't have treated a beggar so Had she come as a suppliant, all would have been different Then Theodora sat up, and a kind of frenzy drove her to speak She had something to tell! —  The Place Beyond the Winds
• Accordingly the man went by appointment to Taenarus as a suppliant, and there built himself a hut divided into two by a partition; within which he concealed some of the ephors and let them hear the whole matter plainly. —  The History of the Peloponnesian War
• You see where my pride is gone; remember I plead as a suppliant, a beggar--though one who may be one day a prince, a king! —  Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth

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