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Example sentences for "intreaties"

Lexicographically close words:
intravenously; intreat; intreate; intreated; intreatie; intreating; intreats; intreaty; intrench; intrenched
  1. Intreaties were not made for that fair Mouth; Command and be obey'd.

  2. You, conscious of your honourable motives, and listening only to your courage, have always been deaf to the intreaties of those who cautioned you against the danger of spies and false-witnesses.

  3. He came in at the same time, and seconded this command of my Mothers with Intreaties and Complaints.

  4. When the mercer found he was like to be left without any hopes, he began to talk in a milder strain, and with abundance of intreaties fell to persuading Jonathan to think of some method to serve him, and that immediately.

  5. He wanted not many intreaties to comply with their request, but money, the main ingredient in such delights, was wanting, and of this he at last acknowledged the deficiency to one of the young men his companions.

  6. Mrs Douglas looked on the open candid countenance of Laura, and her suspicions vanished in a moment; but they returned when her young friend reiterated her intreaties that she would not hint the subject to her father.

  7. Rapturously thanking her advocate, Laura now renewed her intreaties with such warmth, that her father, not possessed of that facility in refusing which results from practice, gave a half-reluctant acquiescence.

  8. But be that as it may, after a year's rest I prepared for a sixth voyage, notwithstanding the intreaties of my kindred and friends, who did all in their power to dissuade me.

  9. I had recourse to intreaties and prayers; but he had no regard to them, and commanded the slaves to proceed to execution.

  10. I; but to that question no intreaties could produce an answer, after he once found I had no mind to buy.

  11. But I forbear--if you think my proposals reasonable, you want no intreaties to engage you to comply with them, if otherwise all will be without effect.

  12. Although I had always despised her from the Day I had overheard her conversation with my Edward, yet in civility I complied with hers and Sir Edward's intreaties that I would inform them of the whole melancholy affair.

  13. When after a long stay Polixenes was preparing to depart, Hermione, at the desire of her husband, joined her intreaties to his that Polixenes would prolong his visit.

  14. The Queen perceiving that neither Gifts, nor Intreaties would prevail to get her Son, she resolv'd to use Force.

  15. He apply'd himself diligently to this Work, and the Inhabitants attended it, being willing to forward it on Account of the Intreaties and Example of their Chief.

  16. Not to detain your highness by dwelling too long upon what passed, it will suffice to say, that notwithstanding the intreaties of the sultan, and the pleadings of my own heart, my resolution was immovable.

  17. Don Perez was delighted at Donna Emilia's having at last yielded to his intreaties for a meeting; and Don Florez, as much annoyed at the reserved conduct of his mistress, went home accusing her of coquetry.

  18. You call me cruel, you charge me with unfeelingness and inflexibility, and yet to my prayers you are deaf, to my intreaties you are inexorable.

  19. In compliance with the obliging intreaties of the marquis of Pescara, I have entered repeatedly into the scene of her entertainments.

  20. Ah cruel, cruel St. Julian, was it for a lover to turn a deaf ear to the intreaties of a mistress, that lived not but to honour his virtues, and to sympathize in his felicity?

  21. If intreaties Will render you no remedy, this Ring Deliuer them, and your Appeale to vs There make before them.

  22. Nor do we now part till I have proved whether or not prayers and intreaties will open her lips to satisfy me in respect of the rank which my father held.

  23. The anxiety I felt was excessive, and I was so earnest in my intreaties to sit and watch by him, that he was prevailed on to grant my request.

  24. My mother wearied me with intreaties to write to her at least once a week.

  25. He did not oppose it, and I went, at the pressing intreaties of your favourite, the good old dean, to his house; where he and his lady behaved to me with more than parental tenderness.

  26. All his prayers and intreaties to him were vain, but heaven sent death to his relief, and put a period to his miseries in an instant.


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