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Entreating him therefore to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
Chapter 4 2010
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Entreating Herbert to tell me how he had come to my rescue, — which at first he had flatly refused to do, but had insisted on my remaining quiet, — I learnt that I had in my hurry dropped the letter, open, in our chambers, where he, coming home to bring with him Startop whom he had met in the street on his way to me, found it, very soon after I was gone.
Great Expectations 2007
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Entreating him therefore to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Entreating him therefore to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Entreating him therefore to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004
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Entreating him, therefore, to remain a few minutes at the bottom of the stairs, I darted up towards my own room.
Frankenstein 2003
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Entreating pardon, and at the same time justifying her conduct
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Nor has their Behavior been at all better to the rest of the Indian Nations, among whom they reside, by abusing their Women and Evil-Entreating their Men; and, by the way, this was the true Reason of the fatal war which the Nations roundabout made upon Carolina in the year 1713.5
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Entreating a thousand pardons, Reginald Dimmock, after he had glanced at the note, excused himself on the plea of urgent business for his Serene master, uncle of the Grand Duke of Posen.
The Grand Babylon Hotel Arnold Bennett 1899
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Entreating, she would have fallen at his feet if he had not caught her hands and stayed her.
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893
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