If I had known that was the governor, I would have fallen at his feet and asked for pardon; I would have pleaded for pardon and for my life.
She pleaded with the father, but the father said, "No, I will never ask him.
I think the mother of the young man called on the governor and pleaded with him, but the governor stood firm, and said, "No, the man must die.
I do not pretend hereto have pleaded for Republicanism; I have onlypleaded against the White Horse of Hanover.
It is curious to read the arguments against Catholic Emancipation pleaded in the Courier, one being that during the whole of his reign, George III.
He had known instances where the master of a house had in vain pleaded to be allowed the use of a candle, to enable the mother to administer relief to her daughter struggling in convulsive fits.
Clementina felt herself giving way, and she pleaded in final reluctance, "But I haven't got a pleated skut in my steama trunk.
However, she had such a good character for safety, that they pleadedhard to be taken, and I at last consented, though I did not like at all the responsibility of having a lady on board.
In his recent Inaugural Address he had, almost pathetically, pleaded for peace--for friendship; and there is no doubting that his sincere desire was to avoid bloodshed.
He pleaded guilty to one specification only, namely, that of permitting his wife to be with him in Athens, and to accompany him while serving with troops in the field.
He, however, tried to hold the olive branch to both the North and the South, and pleaded for the Union.
Holbrook had cause for being attracted by that fresh, bright face, she thought, and so she steeled herself against the better impulses of her nature, impulses which pleaded that for the sake of the past she should be kind to Maddy Clyde.
Her tone was suddenly altered, her eyes pleaded with his.
The evening to him was one of unalloyed pleasure, and he was genuinely disappointed when Arnold pleaded an engagement as an excuse for not finishing up at a music-hall.
Conscience," hepleaded desperately on the afternoon which neither of them could ever remember afterwards without a sickness of the soul, "you're simply building a funeral pyre for yourself.
The voice of impulse pleaded with him fiercely to go back and tax that man, panoplied though he was in the sanction of society and the church, with having won foully.
The husband had promised to accompany them, but at the last moment pleaded an excuse.
It is just what I want," he fairly pleaded now, as their probing eyes met like those of two earnest children.
He and the little onespleaded hard on Moll's behalf; but Dr.
The Frenchmen were helpless, and pleaded for mercy.
Mr. Greeley's last editorial expressionpleaded with the victors in behalf of justice and fair dealing for the South.
In vain the Princess Salm-Salm, representing one of the proudest families of Europe, bent her knees before the Indian President of Mexico, and pleaded for the life of Maximilian.
Let the wedding day be soon," I pleaded as we rose to return to camp.
Bitterly unwilling to surrender Zulime to the richer and kindlier man who was, undoubtedly, waiting at that moment to receive her and cherish her, I pleaded with her to share my poverty and my hope of future fame.
Her eyes, wide, dark and beautiful, pleaded with me for help, and yet I could only kneel by her side and press her hand and repeat the doctor's words of comfort.
She was sure while honour, truth and gratitude pleaded against inclination they must be in the right, though their remonstrances were hushed into a whisper by the louder solicitations of passion.
Her partiality pleaded in his favour some time; but at length she thought it necessary to retire, notwithstanding his utmost endeavours to detain her.
But don't let's tell the boys," she pleaded hastily.
She pleaded and begged, and at last Mrs. Markin agreed that it might be best to let her have the freedom of the air.
Two roaring fires were soon going on the mountainside, and then both Cameron and Fenton pleaded to be assisted nearer to the circle of warmth.
I pleaded guilty to all the charges except the last, and explained the case as clearly as I could.
Students, in the footsteps of Foscolo and Gabriel Rossetti, drew all the reading world of Italy to the great national seer, who more than five centuries before hadpleaded for unity.
In after life Mazzini denied that there was any serious intention in it; he pleaded that he expressed the hopes of others rather than his own, and wrote it in the certainty that its appeal would not be heard.
Mazzini pleaded that the point at issue between him and the federalists was mainly one of practicability.
Sometimes he pleaded in the lower courts as an "advocate of the poor," and was much in demand for his attention and skill.
She had been his favourite, the one of the family who had sympathized most with his political schemes, and encouraged him in his work, and pleaded for him with his father.
He pleadedthat France should adopt a frankly "republican and revolutionary" diplomacy.
It was this conviction that Mazzini wished his followers to have, when he pleaded that Young Italy should be as a religion.
I pleaded ignorance of that incident in his career, and added: "I shall be interested to hear of that crime if you're sure it is protected by the statute of limitations.
The publishers pleaded with him, and so did I, to abandon the three number limitation, and he yielded.
Don't ye, sir," pleaded Thomasine, feeling somehow this was not right.
There's always one thrown in for luck and me," pleaded Boodles.
He had pleaded not guilty, but he could not be sure about it, and he began to suspect that he must have told them a lie.
However, he pleaded illness and want of strength, and no more was said.
Wu pleaded other engagements, being unwilling to go; at which Wang got in a rage and quite lost his good spirits; so that his mother, fearing a relapse, proposed to him a speedy betrothal in another quarter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleaded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
