At Wellington Valley he won the favor of his superintendent employed in an office at Sydney, he conciliated the good-will of Bishop Broughton and several other clergymen, who interceded for his pardon.
Seeing this, the fountain Arethusa interceded for the land.
Venus now interceded with Neptune to allow her son at last to attain the wished-for goal, and find an end of his perils on the deep.
At length Jupiter interceded for her, and, upon his promising not to pay her any more attentions, Juno consented to restore her to her form.
She had been devoted to Macedonius, and often interceded for the orthodox.
Ralegh's friends in vain interceded for his recall to Court.
When he quitted Oxford his relative, Lord Pembroke, who more than twenty years before had interceded at Wilton for his father's life, introduced him at Court.
A few years later Poppea interceded again on behalf of two Judaeans who had been condemned by Felix and sent as prisoners to Rome.
At his side was the Princess Berenice, who had interceded for the injured and downtrodden, to cover him with the shield of her popularity.
It was expedient that they who interceded for her should be able to say something without the possibility of a reply.
It will readily be conceived how urgent were the entreaties of Parseval; but he would have sued in vain had not Gantheaume, Bionge, Berthollet, and I interceded for him.
Gonzalo intended to have ordered Don Alfonzo to be beheaded; but as he had many friends among the insurgents who intercededfor his life, and who assured Gonzalo that he could not possibly recover from his wounds, he was spared.
Gonzalo did not put these men to death, as several of his own partizans interceded for their lives; and he did not deem it prudent to keep them near his person, or to permit them to remain in Peru.
The bishop of Pavia, far from punishing her for this relapse, or seeking to oppose her desire, interceded for her with her husband.
A few of the notablesinterceded for their recall, for they were more indispensable than trade jealousy, fanaticism, and the hatred of race would confess.
Nor did they spare the majesty of the emperor; when they learned that Maximilian had interceded for Reuchlin with the pope, they heaped abuse on him.
This imprisonment was then clearly a great good fortune for her, and she ought to thank Heaven for it, as an alleviation of the fate awaiting her if he had not interceded for her.
He threw one withering look on Marie, who interceded tearfully for her sister, and pressing Robert's hand with warmth, vowed that so long as he lived Louis should never be Joan's husband.
After continuing some days in this situation, many noblemen of Bohemia interceded in his behalf.
Some were moved by his supplications, interceded for him, unbarred the door, took off his chains, and left him.
In the mean time, the nobility of Bohemia and Poland strongly interceded for Huss; and so far prevailed as to prevent his being condemned unheard, which had been resolved on by the commissioners appointed to try him.
Many others were put to death by various cruel means; and if any Roman catholic, more compassionate than the rest, interceded for any of the reformed, he was immediately apprehended, and shared the same fate as a favourer of heretics.
In 1537 the Duke of Nájera interceded for his release, with what result the records fail to inform us.
William the Conqueror's Norman Bishop of London was a good, peace-loving man, who interceded with the stern monarch, and recovered the forfeited privileges of the refractory London citizens.
Four lesser figures, two on each side the porch, seemed to be noble and pious ladies, one of them probably the Empress Maud, another the good Queen Philippa, who once interceded for the City.
It would have been beneath the dignity of the bishop to have interceded directly with them, especially if he had not succeeded.
Marshal Duras had already written to Louvois, [Footnote 196] to remonstrate against the barbarous orders he was compelled to execute, and Madame de Maintenon herself is said to have interceded with Louis for the suffering people of the Rhine.
The guilty one was found out at last, and, in the heat of the moment, Anna demanded that she should be punished; but yielding afterward to the natural goodness of her heart, she went herself and interceded for the little criminal.
When the former lady was arrested for the first time in 1688, her kinswoman and Madame de Maintenon interceded for her.
Then the gray-haired hero fearlessly interceded for his friend, and the monarch did not remain deaf to his representations.
Tell me, did Radzivill promise that he would spare us when you interceded for us in Kyedani?
During the third month of her stay a certain artillery officer, a friend of Kettling, was condemned by the prince to be shot; Panna Billevich, hearing of this from the young Scot, interceded for him.
The young merchant's affliction was so great, that he knew not what course to pursue, and would certainly have suffered himself to be seized by the caliph's soldiers, had not Fetnah pressed him to disguise himself.
At last he recovered himself, and with a serious air told the vizier, that since his slave had been the occasion of murder, he deserved an exemplary punishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interceded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
