He began with the assurance of his love and that he had come to make her his wife; but, though she permitted him to hold her hand in his clasp, she entreated him to cease pleading his suit and first tell her what she desired to know.
He, too, had not wearied of pleading the need of his people and adjuring him to save them.
But his soul had retained its energy, his heart the desire not to cease pleading to the Ruler of Battles.
Julia would buy a box of the cheese crackers that Schulz kept in stock specially for her, and give several to the sleek little black bitch that stood pleading with her quaint turned-out fore-feet placed on Julia's slippers.
And they told him months afterward that her face was strangely like that of the Virgin when they found her,--beautiful and pleading and sad.
But if you order me into the front rank, I shall obey without pleading my youth as an excuse,—accounting myself of complete maturity, when the purpose is to save myself from ruin.
So they delay her outside the chapel, pleading with a heart that has made the same pleas for itself before.
The story of her love with Schionatulander has delightful stanzas; their long love-pleading dialogue is much truer than most of the minnesingers' work in its restraint and in the girl's coy sweetness.
The father goes on pleading with the boy to take advice and keep out of the disorderly life he is likely to get into about a court.
He approached her more closely, and his voice had lost its pleading tone.
The man was a bloated blackguard whom she had screened by pleadingguilty to a charge of theft in which he was implicated.
He was never tired of urging it on the notice of his fellow men, never tired of pleading for it as a solution of many social difficulties, as a setting of many dislocations of our local systems.
Her greatpleading eyes met Mrs. Van Rensselaer's cold gaze, and her whole slender figure took an attitude of intense wistfulness.
Dawn sat on the edge of her chair, her hands clasped, her lovely eyes pleading eagerly.
The strong man shrank from the child's words as from a blow, and looked up with almost a pleading on his usually cold face.
He dropped the offending manner at once, and begged her pardon, pleading that her father had talked of her as a child.
Without a word in reply, she turned to go, but her eyes met those of Charles with a pleading that went to his heart, and his eyes answered unspeakable things, of which neither knew the meaning, though each felt the strange joy they brought.
It hurt inexpressibly to hear him pleading to her--he who had never done such a thing in his life--and yet .
His eyes were pleading as they looked at his wife.
A series of pleading messages, mingled with threats, were required ere she would consent to appear in the hall and perform graceful measures, or sing and play upon the samisen.
While O'Tei, with a ghostly revival of coquetry, was arranging her tumbled hair by aid of a silver mirror, the Abbess drew her son aside, pleading urgent and important business.
No-Kami, thanks to the pleading of his wife and brother, had been pleased, after outrage and ignominy, to release the men who had committed no crime.
Sometimes they seem to be pleading just not to be forgotten, so I have to be keeping them alive in my head.
I know you will,' said Eunice, with her brave, pleading eyes fixed on her mother's set face.
The maiden listened to his pleading with mingled joy and terror, for she knew her parents would never consent to their union.
The officer, who had lost his nerve, looked at her a moment, in his animal eyes a humble pleading look; then he gave a groan and turned away.
She did not wince, but there came into her young face a deeper pathos--and a wan, deprecating, pleading smile.
She was invited to perform a like office at the baptism of Edward VI, but this time she was unable to be present, and wrote to make her loyal excuses, pleading that some of her household at Croydon had been attacked by the “sweating sickness.
Then Somerset made a speech, pleading in such stupid and selfish fashion for himself and the King that the rude crowd listened with impatience, and gave no cheers when he had finished.
But if in pleading he assert his belief that his cause is just when he believes it unjust, he offends against truth, as any other man would do who in like manner made a like assertion.
If he innocent and pleading for others was daunted at the augustness of such an assembly, what must a man be who should plead before them for his life?
Aunt Jamesina, carried away by his unfailing and deferential courtesy, and the pleading tones of his delightful voice, declared he was the nicest young man she ever knew, and that Anne was a very fortunate girl.
Who could resist those glorious dark eyes, and that pleading voice?
Anne's head was hardly on her pillow before she was half asleep; but just then her door was softly opened and a pleadingvoice said, "Anne.
The pleading wound, the piteous eye that opes Again to nought but pangs, Are jewels and sweet pledges of those hopes On which His empire hangs.
Some harm will happen to you here;" and in her eager pleading with him she laid her hand on his arm, and looked up in his face with imploring eyes.
It was a soft, musical beat, like the distant stroke of a mellow gong, but it had all the pleading quality of the word it seemed to bring to mind.
Instead of a picture, I was conscious then of a sound, like a single pleading word repeated softly, as though someone said "Please!
For had I only marked the Jacobin as we passed the door together, and read his evil face aright, a word, one word, had done for me more than the pleading of a score of Crillons!
But aware through all of the supreme importance of placing her in safety, I subjected my immediate feelings to the exigencies of the moment and stooped to an argument which would, I thought, have weight though private pleading failed.
