Use "entreaty" in a sentence

1. She felt quite sure that if he suspected she was saying "no" reluctantly he would not take it for an answer, and she could not face pleading or entreaty

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2. The Egyptian’s face lost some of its hardness in recognizing Moshe and his polite but earnest entreaty

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3. “Sir! I beg of you! Stop and think!” retorted Korah, whose polite entreaty did not match the flash of irritation in his eyes

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4. For the entreaty of the sorrowful man has no power to ascend to the altar of God

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5. " "Why" say I "does not the entreaty of the grieved man ascend to the altar?" "Because" says he "grief sits in his heart

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6. Grief then mingled with his entreaty does not permit the entreaty to ascend pure to the altar of God

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7. with the Holy Spirit does not produce the same entreaty [as would be produced by the Holy Spirit alone]

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8. But at the urgent entreaty of the princess of Khosala, who loved Bhunda Chand vainly, he gave her a lock of his long black hair as a token of remembrance

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9. He turned to God asking for help: Oh God! How to escape?? It was only some moments of silence filled with supplication and great entreaty to Al’lah-when the plan occurred to his mind and flashed in his imagination including escape by God’s will

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10. Whether it be a holy soul's call to universal love, a parent's entreaty for their children to share, or a scientist's demonstration that polluting the waters poisons the fish causing cancer in us, the insight, the lesson, the enlightenment is the same: remove what is blocked, open up to the more

11. ” Love lamented her droned over entreaty to the G-word wannazombie virt-revolutionaries wearing their No Brand, Logo Free stylish anti-consumer badges of fashionable defiance

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12. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms

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13. "Ethel," implored Tussie, looking at her with a wild entreaty in his eyes, "will you kiss me? Just once--to help me to live--"

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14. " Moses glanced over at Olin with an expression that seemed to make the entreaty that he desist in his comments to the court

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15. A dozen stalwart Daityas responded hostilely to that entreaty, thinking to defend

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16. Obviously, whatever entity or entities are concerned with that water heard Kate’s entreaty and determined that they were willing to help

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17. One of the gigglers looked up at me with entreaty in her eyes and said, “I’m really afraid, Beau

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18. He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his absence

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19. She listened, looking imploringly at him, clasping her hands in dumb entreaty, as though it all depended upon him

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20. "A most earnest, pressing, and emphatic entreaty, addressed to you in the most pathetic tones of the voice so dear to you, that you well remember

21. This exordium, and Miss Pross's two hands in quite agonised entreaty clasping his, decided Mr

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22. "That he is," said the barber, and at once alighting, he offered his saddle to the curate, who accepted it without much entreaty; but

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23. At the entreaty of Zoraida orders were given to set on shore her father and the other Moors who were still bound, for she could not endure, nor could her tender heart bear to see her father in bonds and her fellow-countrymen prisoners before her eyes

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24. Is there any need to say that Don Lorenzo enjoyed hearing himself praised by Don Quixote, albeit he looked upon him as a madman? power of flattery, how far-reaching art thou, and how wide are the bounds of thy pleasant jurisdiction! Don Lorenzo gave a proof of it, for he complied with Don Quixote's request and entreaty, and repeated to him this sonnet on the fable or story of Pyramus and Thisbe

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25. Don Quixote hearing the wounded man's entreaty, exclaimed aloud that what Basilio asked was just and reasonable, and moreover a request that might be easily complied with; and that it would be as much to Senor Camacho's honour to receive the lady Quiteria as the widow of the brave Basilio as if he received her direct from her father

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26. Now, senor, I want your worship to take it upon yourself to redress this wrong either by entreaty or by arms; for by what all the world says you came into it to redress grievances and right wrongs and help the unfortunate

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27. Palmer's, who lived a few miles on the other side of Bath; whither her husband promised, at her earnest entreaty, to join her in a day or two; and whither she was almost equally urgent with her mother to accompany her

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28. Jennings's entreaty was warmly seconded by Mr

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29. Dashwood would sit up with her all night; and Elinor, in compliance with her mother's entreaty, went to bed

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30. howls, and gazed up at her with looks of entreaty

31. I answered: Of the harmonies I know nothing, but I want to have one warlike, to sound the note or accent which a brave man utters in the hour of danger and stern resolve, or when his cause is failing, and he is going to wounds or death or is overtaken by some other evil, and at every such crisis meets the blows of fortune with firm step and a determination to endure; and another to be used by him in times of peace and freedom of action, when there is no pressure of necessity, and he is seeking to persuade God by prayer, or man by instruction and admonition, or on the other hand, when he is expressing his willingness to yield to persuasion or entreaty or admonition, and which represents him when by prudent conduct he has attained his end, not carried away by his success, but acting moderately and wisely under the circumstances, and acquiescing in the event

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32. It appeared dry and cold; but at the bottom was dotted in with pencil an obscure apology, and an entreaty for kind remembrance and reconciliation, if her proceeding had offended him: asserting that she could not help it then, and being done, she had now no power to repeal it

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33. Catherine was near distraught: still, she persisted that she must go home, and tried entreaty in her turn, persuading him to subdue his selfish agony

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34. Remember, also, Villefort, that we have pledged ourselves to his majesty for your fealty and strict loyalty, and that at our recommendation the king consented to forget the past, as I do" (and here she extended to him her hand)—"as I now do at your entreaty

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35. He laid every action of his life before the Almighty, proposed tasks to accomplish, and at the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us

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36. She took her seat, and held forth her arms for her sister, with an air of entreaty and love that even the Huron could not deny

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37. Nora did not answer: somehow or other she was unwilling to comply with this often-repeated entreaty

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38. "I looked at him an instant to see if there was anything to hope from further entreaty

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39. Crass and his partner readily assented, and in spite of Ruth's whispered entreaty that they should return home without further delay, Easton insisted on joining the game

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40. No entreaty, no proposition of increased wages, could induce them to remain; to every argument they replied, "We must go, for death is in this house

41. In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused to gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb

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42. Kitty held her by the hand, and with passionate curiosity and entreaty her eyes asked her: ‘What is it, what is this of such importance that gives you such tranquillity? You know, tell me!’ But Varenka did not even know

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43. I could not see her face in the darkness, but her arms were thrown out in an attitude of entreaty

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44. There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every turn of her lips, her eyes, her hand as she said it! There was entreaty for forgiveness, and trust in him, and tenderness— soft, timid tenderness—and

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45. His supple nature was one which yielded to roughness far more readily than to entreaty

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46. But a voice so charged with entreaty and with yearning love, that it will ring for ever in my ears

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47. Meanwhile the writer's expectation that Angel would come in response to the entreaty was alternately great and small

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48. How could he give way to entreaty? The facts had not changed: there was no new event to alter his opinion

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49. The only response to my father’s whistled entreaty came a few tense heartbeats later, when the spearhead of Glaive Fighters leading the vanguard finally came within range of our ships and opened fire on us

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50. He threw himself on his knees, and held up his hands, wringing them in plaintive supplication, and poured forth a torrent of entreaty, with the tears

51. more loud than ever, and though I could not distinguish a word he said, I could in some way recognize in his tones some passionate entreaty on his part

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52. He spoke in the tone of entreaty and reproach that a carpenter uses to a gentleman who has picked up an ax: ‘We are used to it, but you, sir, will blister your hands

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53. Those eyes expressed entreaty, shame at having to ask, fear of a refusal, and readiness for relentless hatred in case of such refusal

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54. From the time he received this news to the end of the campaign all Kutuzov’s activity was directed toward restraining his troops, by authority, by guile, and by entreaty, from useless attacks, maneuvers, or encounters with the perishing enemy

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55. Then, touched by Combeferre's words, shaken by Enjolras' order, touched by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other

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56. Her entreaty had no effect on Tom: he only said again what he had said before; and it was not merely Tom, for the requisition was now backed by Maria, and Mr

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57. “You have only to read the part,” said Henry Crawford, with renewed entreaty

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58. Whenever she had thought of the minutiae of the evening, it had been as a matter of course that Edmund would begin with Miss Crawford; and the impression was so strong, that though her uncle spoke the contrary, she could not help an exclamation of surprise, a hint of her unfitness, an entreaty even to be excused

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59. Another burst of tears; but in spite of that burst, and in spite of that great black word miserable, which served to introduce it, Sir Thomas began to think a little relenting, a little change of inclination, might have something to do with it; and to augur favourably from the personal entreaty of the young man himself

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60. Entreaty should be from one quarter only

61. Palmer’s, who lived a few miles on the other side of Bath; whither her husband promised, at her earnest entreaty, to join her in a day or two; and whither she was almost equally urgent with her mother to accompany her

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62. Dashwood WOULD sit up with her all night; and Elinor, in compliance with her mother’s entreaty, went to bed

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63. You will undertake it, I hope?" turning to her with a look of anxious entreaty, which softened her a little; but while she hesitated what to say, her brother again interposed with Miss Crawford's better claim

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64. By a look at her brother she prevented any farther entreaty from the theatrical board, and the really good feelings by which she was almost purely governed were rapidly restoring her to all the little she had lost in Edmund's favour

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65. "You have only to read the part," said Henry Crawford, with renewed entreaty

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66. It was no time for farther assurances or entreaty, though to part with her at a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity

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67. The first feeling was disappointment: he had hoped better things; he had thought that an hour's entreaty from a young man like Crawford could not have worked so little change on a gentle-tempered girl like Fanny; but there was speedy comfort in the determined views and sanguine perseverance of the lover; and when seeing such confidence of success in the principal, Sir Thomas was soon able to depend on it himself

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68. "Do you wonder? Is there anything in my present entreaty that you do not understand? I will explain to you instantly all that makes me urge you in this manner, all that gives me an interest in what you look and do, and excites my present curiosity

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69. Only the silence of the boat was at intervals startlingly pierced by one of his peculiar whispers, now harsh with command, now soft with entreaty

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70. Not reasoning; not remonstrance; not entreaty wilt thou hearken to; all this thou scornest

71. As soon as I stopped she held out her hand, and in a voice that was still even, though it had a note of entreaty, said :

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72. Kitty held her by the hand, and with passionate curiosity and entreaty her eyes asked her: "What is it, what is this of such importance that gives you such tranquillity? You know, tell me!" But Varenka did not even know what Kitty's eyes were asking her

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73. That naively humiliating entreaty was the more pitiful, the more heartrending for being so flagrant and impossible

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74. “What grief? What about? Can you tell me?” asked Lise with timid entreaty

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75. ” Mitya clasped his hands in entreaty

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76. Gania was evidently much alarmed at the idea that the prince would not consent to take his note, and he looked at him now with an expression of absolute entreaty

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