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Example sentences for "entreaty"

Lexicographically close words:
entreated; entreaties; entreating; entreatingly; entreats; entred; entree; entrees; entremets; entrench
  1. Graeme had risen with a gesture of entreaty or denial.

  2. Such an entreaty amazed us greatly, yet, when he told us that she would go no whither with him save under our care, and that everything depended on his learning this very hour how he stood with her, we did his will.

  3. To my humble entreaty that he would set aside the unnatural and sinful oath which forbade him to enter his parents' house he had turned a deaf ear.

  4. I regretted it exceedingly, for she was very grateful, and I felt sure would have resisted no entreaty of mine.

  5. The old girl promptly makes a sign of entreaty to him to say nothing; assenting with a nod, he suffers them to enter as he shuts the door.

  6. Therefore I make the entreaty I have now preferred, and I hope you will have sufficient consideration for me to accede to it.

  7. It was a note of a few lines, written from the couch on which she lay and enclosed to me in another from her husband, in which he seconded her entreaty with much solicitude.

  8. Seymour perceived the threat of parting had produced a different effect to what he had expected, and at once he changed his tone to that of entreaty and persuasion; and, with admirable tact, appealed to my feelings and my love.

  9. The letter concluded with the warmest wishes for their future welfare--with a strong entreaty that they should abandon a dangerous career, which, no matter how long fortune smiled upon it, must inevitably incur an ignominious termination.

  10. He stopped; her white face seemed to flash scorn, despair, and entreaty on him all at once.

  11. Betty sat down, and Amoret climbed on her lap, while a diversion was made by Archer's imperious entreaty that his mamma would purchase a mandarin who not only nodded, but waved his hands and protruded his tongue.

  12. It made her happy to find that Charles sent his own physician to her but, on the other hand, she was deeply and painfully agitated by his failure to grant the entreaty which she sent by Dr.

  13. At Wolf's entrance the German youth, like a drowning man who sees a friend on the shore, shrieked an entreaty to save him from the murderers who wanted to drag him to death.

  14. Even a look of entreaty would have been out of place on this occasion.

  15. With the entreaty to spare him in future the pain of refusing any wish of the woman he loved, the disagreeable affair had been dismissed.

  16. He wished to leave her with this image before his soul, and therefore hurriedly extended his hand and said farewell, after promising to fulfil her entreaty never to come to Brussels without showing by a visit that he remembered her.

  17. I besought her, with every form of entreaty I could employ, to restore my sisters to their natural shape, and to release me from the cruel duty that I had always unwillingly performed.

  18. Greatly perplexed and alarmed, he wrote a touching letter of entreaty to Burnes; but by this time his doom was sealed.

  19. The language of entreaty was powerless; he used the language of reproach.

  20. But the old man to whom the entreaty was addressed shook his shaven head.

  21. But no entreaty could prevail on him to delay his departure.

  22. Pray do: you did not use to require any entreaty from me, Mary!

  23. Poor Mary was overwhelmed with grief and amazement at this new display of her mother's tyranny and injustice, and used all the powers of reasoning and entreaty to alter her sentiments; but in vain.

  24. It was not until after much entreaty that the way-worn travellers were allowed shelter, with a bed of straw, in an outhouse.

  25. And he mingled all the fixed and unfixed parts of her map in most bewildering confusion, regardless of her laughing entreaty to let them alone.

  26. But events were not progressing smoothly, I could obtain no favourable answer to my entreaty for a relief party.

  27. The latter making no reply, Bardissi repeated, in tones of entreaty almost, "Answer me, Mohammed Ali!

  28. The maiden still knelt upon the rocky stairway and raised her hands in wild entreaty to the passers-by.

  29. At the entreaty of the good padre we remained at San Carlos all night, and the following morning returned to San Domingo, the ship anchoring in the bay on the same afternoon.

  30. And even this entreaty from a son might not have prevailed, had not the influence of a sleepless night from the heat of summer, led to a conversation to be followed by results so important.

  31. Yet, so were her words accented, that the entreaty sounded like command, and the command like entreaty.

  32. Antony Foster was still engaged in debate with his fair guest, who treated with scorn every entreaty and request that she would retire to her own apartment, when a whistle was heard at the entrance-door of the mansion.

  33. Then addressing the lady, in a tone betwixt entreaty and command, he added, "Uds precious!

  34. With him such sensations required, for his own relief, some immediate penitential escape, and as Madame de Treymes turned toward the door he addressed a glance of entreaty to his betrothed.

  35. There is one thing more--" She stood close to him, with entreaty written on her small passionate face.

  36. Menace and entreaty failed alike, nor could example or reproach recall the fugitives.

  37. The meal was eaten in silence, save an occasional entreaty from Gilbert to his entertainer to partake of his own cheer, and the refusal.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entreaty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.