beseechingness

The girl to whom he had been engaged had died, and that had left a kind of sweetness, almost beseechingness, in his manner, very engaging in so tall and strong a man.

Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

Her great eyes, black, with weary white lids, used to follow me as I left the hospital ward, and I could not always tear myself away from their dumb beseechingness, but would turn back and sit down again by the bed.

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

Zoe was a beautiful brown-and-white spaniel, with eyes that were almost human in their soft beseechingness, and Mrs. Broderick often lamented that she could not eulogise his doggish virtues as Mrs. Browning had immortalised her Flush.

Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

Violet's face is crimsoned to its utmost capacity, and her eyes have that awful beseechingness that cuts him to the soul.

Floyd Grandon's Honor Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

The husband's determination to mastery, which lay deep below all blandness and beseechingness, had risen permanently to the surface now, and seemed to alter his face, as a face is altered by a hidden muscular tension with which a man is secretly throttling or stamping out the life from something feeble, yet dangerous.

Romola George Eliot 1849

At length, Brandon entirely subduing and quelling the stubborn hypocrisy of the culprit, the man turned towards him a look between wrath and beseechingness, muttering, --

Paul Clifford — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

At length, Brandon entirely subduing and quelling the stubborn hypocrisy of the culprit, the man turned towards him a look between wrath and beseechingness, muttering, --

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Olive looked at Mrs. Burrage with a strange beseechingness, "I am very tired, I must rest.

The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Henry James 1879