Neither threats nor entreaties could shake the determination of Hadji, or of the crew.
If I have yielded to your entreaties with so much regret, poor wife, because I desired to follow the last request of my father faithfully, now it need be so no longer.
Reine, beset by the entreaties of Stephanette, finally consented to hear him.
Astonished at his fate, Atahualpa endeavoured to avert it by tears, by promises, and by entreaties that he might be sent to Spain, where a monarch would be the arbiter of his lot.
In spite of the angry shouts and entreaties of the guide, the door was thrust open, and the party, armed with their axes and bows, at once rushed out into the night.
The old Antiquary observes the change that has come so suddenly over Maria's feelings, but his entreaties fail to elicit the cause.
My entreaties were repulsed with anger, for the sudden entrance of Lord Athol with fresh fuel to his flame, so confirmed his direful resolution that, desperate for my friend, I threw myself on my knees.
Wallace answered their entreaties with the language of encouragement; adding, that he was not their prince, to lawfully maintain a disputed power over the legitimate chiefs of the land.
Helen did not say anything in opposition to their wishes; and at last Edwin yielded to the entreaties and tears of his mother and aunt, to bring them to where they might, at least, not long endure the misery of suspense.
The disaffected lords thought proper to throw in their conjurations also; and every voice but that of Badenoch poured forth fervent entreaties that he, their liberator, would grant the supplication of the nation.
It was my will that you should give her up, for one should hesitate about succeeding through entreaties or threats.
Both Thore and Oyvind tried to make amends with serious faces and entreaties to walk in; but it was the pent-up wrath of three years that was now seeking vent, and there was no checking it.
But the entreaties of the chief and of Jack induced her to restrain her valour, and remain in a position of comparative safety from which she could see all that went on, and discharge a pistol when she saw a chance of bringing down a foe.
It was generally believed, though no one durst have hinted it to the Baron of Bradwardine, that Flora's entreaties had no small share in allaying the wrath of Fergus upon occasion of their quarrel.
In spite of all my tears and entreaties that he would surrender himself to the Government, he joined with Mr. Falconer and some other gentlemen, and they have all gone northwards, with a body of about forty horsemen.
He had about this time, also, become so weak and ailing in health, as the result of his pernicious habits, that he was compelled to yield to his parents' entreaties to go and live at home.
In answer to their entreaties he spoke several times in their meetings, and thus made his first start in public speaking.
However, my tears and entreaties prevailed upon them to bring me here, and all that remains to be done is to dismiss my captors, and permit me to take my leave of your grace.
Her caprice for this marriage was almost played out, but she wanted to be coaxed out of it, and to make a great favor of yielding up her own wilful way to the remonstrances and entreaties of her lover.
But now, through the prayers and entreaties of his humble handmaid, he had relented,--been turned from his intent.
LXXI He accepts the realm, by their entreaties won; And, to afford them aid against their foes, Will went to Bulgary when three months are done; Save Fortune otherwise of him dispose.
XI And his discourse pursuing still, the seer So spake, he moves Rinaldo by his rede To give his sister to the cavalier; Albeit with either small entreaties need.
I never doubted that you would come, Edmund," she said, "and the knowledge has enabled me to stand firm against both the entreaties and threats of Sweyn.
Their entreaties were in vain, for when the morning dawned it was found that three-fourths of their number had left the camp during the night, and had made off to the marshes and fastnesses.
To daunt Renuccio, he had his eldest son beheaded, and he threatened the youngest with a like fate, but allowed himself to be moved by the boy's entreaties and tears.
He was equally deaf to the entreaties of the Corsicans, who all eagerly awaited his arrival.
Numerous appeals to charity, entreaties for small loans of money, were mingled with grateful acknowledgments for benefits already received.
Then came, in rugged hand and gnarled shape, urgent entreaties for abatements and allowances, pathetic pictures of failing crops, sickness and sorrow!
The men, ashamed to desert their companion, who was related to one of them, yielded to her entreaties and remained, hoping that the storm would be a sufficient excuse for the delay.
The unfortunate man's entreaties became more pitiful and their mocking replies more pitiless.
Thus, to whatever entreaties he made, in whatever form they were wrapped, Mary merely replied with an unvaried and obstinate refusal.
She spent an hour on her knees, then, yielding to the entreaties of her faithful attendant, went to bed.
No one knew the real motive of her seclusion, and no entreaties of Caesar, whose love for her was strange and unnatural, had induced her to defer this departure from the world even until the day after he left for Naples.
Juliet was young and beautiful like you, and she did not need many entreaties to take pity on Romeo.
Lacheneur judged the character of his former master correctly, when he resisted the entreaties of his daughter.
Blanche had shut herself up in her own apartments, and remained deaf to all entreaties for admittance.
Stationing herself near the door, with her most bewitching smile upon her lips, Madame Blanche spared neither flattering words nor entreaties in her efforts to reassure the deserters.
Finding their entreaties would not induce him to leave the citadel, they seized him and literally carried him away.
Escorval was ignorant of when she joined her entreaties to those of her son to induce the unfortunate girl to remain.
She absolutely refused to be separated from them, notwithstanding the earnest entreaties of the nurse and the express orders of the doctor.
When Myra heard this order, her pride vanished, and with tears and entreaties she began to cry to her mistress to spare her.
What he merits he shall have, from my whole heart--mine own poor esteem for his fidelity, and our jointentreaties to the King for his pardon!
To all entreaties from friends that he would write his travels, he replied, No; that his were travels of the mind.
After this no entreaties for more liquor, however urgent or suppliant, could prevail over the inexorable landlord.
Finding his entreaties of no avail, he took possession of a house on the manor.
The boy was spirited enough, and in spite of his mother's entreaties insisted on leaving the Tower, and being rowed across the Thames to meet the insurgents on the Surrey shore.
Vitellia yields to the entreaties of Servilia to intercede with the Emperor for Sextus, renounces her hopes, and resolves to save him by confessing her own guilt.
The consequence is that upon Guillelmo renewing his entreaties the two ladies decline to hear him out, and make their exit.
Willing as he is to take his master's place with Elvira, his fears do not suffer him to do it; and when he finds himself alone in the dark with her, in spite of her entreaties not to be left alone, his one anxiety is to escape.
Fierce pants could be heard by the two running side by side in front of him, though, in spite of his breathlessness, he managed to give utterance every now and again to agonizing entreaties that the others would not desert him.
He broke forth in a torrent of mingled threats and entreaties as the Moor approached him, then lay on his back and tried to repel the lad with his feet.
At Bologna, Petrarch made considerable progress in the study of the law, moved thereto, doubtless, by the entreaties of his excellent parent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entreaties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
