At this council it was decided to send Las Casas to Spain to plead for more Dominicans and Franciscans to come out.
Never during the many years of his long life, did the Indians lack a friend to plead in their behalf.
His sister pleads with Thee; I plead for his sake, he being dear to me, But more for Thine own name and glory's sake, And for Thy suffering cause!
I shall never forget his petition: 'O God, I plead with thee for this blessing!
Ere your decrees proclaim to all mankind Murder is legalized, that there the Slave Before the Eternal, "thunder-tongued shall plead "Against the deep damnation of your deed.
Thy master's parting footsteps to the gate That clos'd for ever on him, thou didst lose Thy truest friend, and none was left to plead For the old age of brute fidelity!
Stand'st thou, like me, a freeman in the world, That in thy actions thou shouldst plead free agency?
Your third duty, and I get to love it more myself every year, is not only to pray for yourselves, but to plead for others.
How many plead in the greatest service of all the one Great Sacrifice, once offered for the sins of the whole world?
We must come as lost sinners to our heavenly Father, confess our transgressions to him, and pleadfor his forgiveness, only through the sufferings and death which Christ endured.
Frederick Douglass was in the gallery, one of the most attentive listeners, and evidently the best-pleased man in the Chamber, as he heard the distinguished champion of his race plead so eloquently in its behalf.
Having pleaded for the freedman, I nowplead for the Republic; for to each alike the ballot is a necessity.
The very next day she came to plead that Blair might come himself to ask for pardon.
Then, when the Householder says that He knows nothing about them, and cannot let strangers in, they plead as their qualification that they had eaten and drunk in His presence, and that He had taught in their streets.
She plead for the poor creatures about her, to whom Christ gave always the most abundant pity, seeing they were more sinned against than sinning.
While we sat alone I plead for a story, but the thoughts of Uncle Eb had gone to roost early in a sort of gloomy meditation.
The poet names a Modenese lawyer, whom he calls Vagellius, who was so impudent, that he would plead any cause, right or wrong, without shame or fear.
My liege, forbear; Her life preserv'd may plead your cause with Greece, And mitigate your fate.
He shall thoroughly plead our cause," in every emergency of Life.
If you dare justify the accusation You shall to Sherrys, and then before the Judges Plead your owne cause.
Doe not disdayne, faire peece of Natures pride, To heare him plead for love that sav'd thy life.
For my owne life, So many reasons forfeit it to death That 'twere a Sinn, had I a will to live, To plead to save it; but for this my sonn I do beseech a hearing.
That star of my birth and most disastrous fortunes should plead on my behalf to you; to my wife at least it will.
Then it was the fancy of people that I, being very cold, might be suffered to hear my cousin plead for himself.
Lord, Richie, you should hear my father plead in Court with his wig on.
Had the squire talked to me in those days seriously and fairly of my father's character, I should have abandoned my system of defence to plead for him as before a judge.
Besides, if I do, aunty will be at hand to plead for the defence, and she can!
Hold your peace, my son," plead the mother, "and do naught to bring more distress upon your poor mother.
She was given into the care of her son, who came from Rhode Island to plead for her life, and went away with him; but the next spring this foolish woman returned and began preaching and was herself hung on Boston Common.
There he sank wearily on a buffalo-skin and plead with the boy to stay with them as chief in his stead.
Indeed, it was a comparatively peaceful fall, and though Clark plead with him, Erskine stubbornly set his face for Virginia.
At last old Kahtoo, who would not give up his great hope, plead with him to marry her, and while he was talking the girl stood at the door of the tent and interrupted them.
Erskine plead to be allowed to take him there, but Clark would not let him go.
Twould do to plead so if we had no enemies, but enemies are upon us, watching our movements through partizans' eyes, full of fierceness, and evil to misconstruct.
Make us men, and we will plead our own cause; we will show to the world that we are men; black men, who can be made men when they are not made merchandise.
There'll be the rub; and ye can't plead a right to enjoin the schedule he files in bankruptcy unless ye show how they were purchased by him.
Take away that injustice, Ellen, and men who now plead our unprofitableness would hide their heads with shame.
The South must hold conventions; she must enforce constitutional guarantees; she must plant herself in the federal capital, and plead her cause at the bar of the world.
He has plenty of accusers,--no one to plead the justice of his case.
Thus driven under the burden of trouble, she begins to express her unhappiness, to remonstrate against his associations, to plead with him against his course of life.
Wherefore, do I plead My grief and My sorrow to Him Who created Me and entrusted Me with His Message.
I only plead My grief and My sorrow to God, Who hath created Me and them, Who well knoweth our state and Who watcheth over all things.
Should not the herdsman of Tehoa plead in pastoral phrase, and the royal son of Amoz denounce with strong authority?
Isaiah as his intercessor, or to plead the merits of St. Ezekiel as the make-weight for his sins?
My father's kind heart was bursting with indignation and grief; but from the surly answers he received, he saw that it would be hopeless to plead for the unhappy beings.
I will plead for you; I will try to save your life," said the padre.
I did not plead in vain, as the reader may suppose from what he has already been made acquainted with.
After a tender inquiry for her son, Marcens proceeded to plead with Raoul to raise the siege; clearly the burgesses regarded the abbess of the great convent as their leader and a fit person to negotiate with their enemy.
At least, the words which follow in my Dramatic Essay will plead somewhat in my behalf.
