They must be appealed to in a way which makes the listener really listen, makes the reader stop and reread, makes them both think it over later.
He had a certain rough humour which appealed to the Chinese.
You have appealed to the machine gun and by the machine gun shall you be judged.
Yancey was warmly received and appealed to his hosts on the ground that the South was the best buyer of English goods.
This appealedto Lincoln and he "put the draft of the proclamation aside, waiting for victory[871].
Appealed by the Government this decision was upheld by the Court of Exchequer in November.
Two weeks later, the Economist, while still maintaining the justice of the Northern cause, though with lessened vigour, appealed to the common sense of the North to refrain from a civil war whose professed object was unattainable.
The next day, in the Commons, Sir James Ferguson appealed to Roebuck to withdraw his motion altogether as inexpedient, because of the uncertainty of events in America and as sure to be defeated if pressed to a vote.
Buchanan appealed hysterically to the old-time love of the Union and to the spirit of compromise.
British shipownersappealed to Consul Bunch for instructions, he to Lyons, and the latter to the American Secretary of State, Judge Black.
He appealed to Palmerston to consider whether the time had not come to recognize the South.
Rear-Admiral Papov with six vessels in the harbour of San Francisco was appealed to by excited citizens on rumours of the approach of the Alabama and gave orders to protect the city.
The sheer violence of it appealed to her like water to the thirsty.
This rambling old house with its quiet garden and early Victorian furniture, had appealed to her in some profound and touching way.
It was in vain that he appealed to Congress; for Arthur Lee was continually informing that body that he was a fraud and his claims groundless, because the French government intended that all the supplies sent through Hortalez & Co.
Beaumarchais appealedto the Academy of Sciences in a most cleverly written petition, and it decided in his favor.
It appealed to his natural economy and to his desire for spare money with which to buy books.
The savage could not imagine that the Great Spirit dwelt also in the leaf which he bruised in his hand; but here it appealed to his senses in thunder and awful majesty, and he was compelled to acknowledge it.
Something in them appealed to her, something in their heroic weakness satisfied the yearning of her strength to help and protect.
I have never met anyone who seemed to me more absolutely single-minded and single-hearted in her devotion to a cause which appealed to her.
Inglis, for the justice of the claim had from the first appealed to her.
She appealed silently to O'Mally, but he shook his head determinedly.
This time the manager appealed to the lady eloquently.
A comic-opera star would have sent her press agent round to see what advertising could be got out of the incident; a prima donna would have appealed to her primo tenore, for the same purpose.
Yet it pleased him, for he knew the boy appealed to her romantic as well as to her maternal instinct.
Beauty, mere physical beauty, appealed to him as it always appeals to an artist, but it had never had the power to hold him for any length of time.
The situation stirred Mrs. Vandervelde's imagination and appealed to her executive ability.
I'm delighted to learn that corporation law has appealed to you so strongly, for the money is there.
He had never felt the least curiosity about the past history or the inner life of a mortal before, and in normal circumstances Isabel's would not have appealed to him.
When pressed to give an account of herself the dramatic possibilities of the method suddenly appealed to her, accompanied by a mischievous desire to outdo them at their own game and observe the effect.
Perhaps something in the stolid uncompromising exterior of the old barrack appealed to her irresistibly, mausoleum that it was of an aristocratic past.
When Jack wasappealed to he declined to hazard a guess, saying he preferred to wait till the halt for the night, when he would leave it to Docak.
His furtive glances showed him nothing of his friend, but he had no chance to speculate, nor did he call upon him for help, as the lad had appealed to him but a short time before.
It had just the tinge of dramatic setting in it that appealed to her highly romantic imagination.
Congress had been appealed to for ocean transportation, and the Senate had voted a liberal appropriation, but the bill was defeated in the House of Representatives.
The chief surgeons were appealed to and asked not to allow any detachment of sick men to go home without previously notifying us, so that we might provide for their nutriment in supplement to that provided by the Government.
The Red Cross Association had been appealed to and had responded.
In their extremity the despairing citizens appealed to the Red Cross for aid, which responded at once.
For this reason I have appealed to Congress as well as to the Executive Department.
Krizanic], a Croat Catholic Dalmatian priest, a firm believer in Jugo-Slav and Slavic unity in general, appealed to the rising Russian empire to help save dying Slavdom.
They then appealed to the Constituent Assembly for a general law on associations and combinations.
The leaders of the strike appealed to the Confederation for help.
The victorious party was in a hopeless minority, and some of the fervour with which the Independents appealed to divine election may have been due to a consciousness that they would not have passed the test of a popular vote.
It appealed to Irishmen as they were proud of their race, to save the most distinctive symbol of their nationality; and the appeal met with an extraordinary promptness of response.
Anna appealed to her younger brother, Constantine, a Lyceum student, but he told her he was busy, immediately sitting down at his desk to write.
All this literature appealed to certain sides of the "intellectual" heart, but it could not slake the thirst for fiction.
The Central Authority, on being appealed to by a local authority actually confronted with such a case, decided that the wife could not be prevented from leaving the workhouse.
The local bodyappealed to its Parliamentary representatives.
The only forces appealed to were the fear of punishment and a modicum of religious exhortation.
This appealed to all the instincts begotten by his shepherd training; for they were a shepherdless flock in the midst of wolves.
That the Hebrews might not forget this obligation, the prophets appealed to the memory of the days when the Israelites themselves were slaves in the land of Egypt and the thought of how Jehovah delivered them from their slavery.
She had appealed in vain to the child's father in the first years after his desertion of her.
Besides the differences of opinion already alluded to, as to the payment of labour, how many, and irreconcileable, are the standards of justice appealed to on the matter of taxation?
In new cases, and in cases where no sentiment or passion is called into play, Utility alone is appealed to.
The City Government was appealed to and in less than two years the business districts and Custom House Place, infamous across the world, were cleared of open houses of shame.
Miss Rudy is a woman of strong and earnest Christian character, and I appealed to her because I knew that she would surely come if she promised.
So far he was only known as an able subordinate, but his capacity could not be hidden from such an excellent judge of character as Isabella, to whom as a woman he appealed by a chivalrous union of devotion and respect.
Paoli now appealed for assistance to the British government, which despatched a considerable force.
In 1372 Arrigo, count of La Rocca, with the assistance of Aragonese troops, made himself master of the island; but his very success stirred up against him the barons of Cape Corso, who once more appealed to Genoa.
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