Supplicants

Again in Euripides's "Supplicants" there is this boast touching

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

Never have the names of father and daughter been uttered with a holier tenderness than by Euripides, as in this most lovely passage, or in the "Supplicants," after the voluntary death of Evadne.

Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. Margaret Fuller 1830

Dragicevic is a Serb born in what is now Croatia, and one senses a pressure of horrifying history in these "Supplicants", as she calls them.

The Guardian World News Laura Cumming 2010

Supplicants, mendicants and others trying to make their fortune in Dwaraka.

Kanha's Dream 2010

Supplicants also knot ribbons three times around their wrists while making wishes; when they fall off, it is believed, the wishes will come true.

A Fresh Approach Yields Poetry 2010

Fathers obliging, Sons observant, Patrons readily assisting, Supplicants gratefully accepting; whilst true Piety and Devotion are the Cement of all the other Vertues, to build up a holy Court, like those we read of in the time of Constantine or Theodosius.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Fathers obliging, Sons observant, Patrons readily assisting, Supplicants gratefully accepting; whilst true Piety and Devotion are the Cement of all the other Vertues, to build up a holy Court, like those we read of in the time of Constantine or Theodosius.

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Your pelvis is visible beneath your shift, wider and rotated back slightly more than the male Supplicants who come to Us. Waist more slender, thighs thicker.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

The headline on it is: Line of US Bailout Supplicants Grows: ` Some lawmakers '-- exprect -- ` express reluctance to extend federal assistant further.'

The Business of America 2001

Supplicants will badger me in hopes of obtaining original creations.

Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997