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Example sentences for "pleadingly"

Lexicographically close words:
pleaded; pleader; pleaders; pleadeth; pleading; pleadings; pleads; pleas; pleasance; pleasant
  1. He saw that consternation was plainly written on the latter's baby face and that tears were gathering in her big blue eyes now pleadingly uplifted to his.

  2. She clasped her hands and gazed pleadingly at Millie.

  3. He laid his finger pleadingly on his nose.

  4. She lifted it up by the chin and looked pleadingly into the big brown eyes.

  5. Pinchas, laying his finger pleadingly on the side of his nose.

  6. Her tone was half indignant, half imploring, and her eyes were lifted pleadingly to his face.

  7. She had lifted her face, and the soft, beseeching eyes were looking pleadingly into his.

  8. Instantly her face flushed crimson, she trembled visibly, and her eyes were lifted pleadingly to his.

  9. Then he stopped, and looked pleadingly at Janet.

  10. One morning when the sun shone brightly after a soft rain a timid little plant with a delicate stem sprang up between the two trees, and looked pleadingly toward the straight, strong trunk of the bamboo.

  11. She raised her head, and her brown eyes looked pleadingly into the master's, her white face besought him, for one second.

  12. He was very anxious to get home again, for he had heard a few words whispered pleadingly by Dot, then a whispered consultation between Mr. and Mrs. Bruce.

  13. O'Moy, and his blue eyes looked pleadingly down into the sternly handsome face of his chief, "I am in your hands, sir.

  14. This was from Colonel Fletcher his own colonel and a man who esteemed him--and it was asked in accents that were pleadingly insistent.

  15. I could answer pleadingly that it were far better not to talk now.

  16. Marta had gone close to her husband and was looking earnestly and pleadingly into his face.

  17. Pappina looked pleadingly first at Marta then at Guiseppe, then burst into tears.

  18. As he said this he looked pleadingly at Miss Van Tuyn.

  19. You think if I were to marry a comparatively young man--" She paused, looking almost pleadingly at the uncompromising Miss Briggs.

  20. They were sitting on an ottoman, and the lovely face which looked pleadingly up into his was very near.

  21. He gazed pleadingly at the tall, fair-haired girl whose eyes were meeting his so apologetically.

  22. Her lips were parted in a half-smile; the great dark eyes sought his in the calling glance which seeks its companion; and in the face and voice there was something tremulous, vibrant and pleadingly anxious.

  23. He looked so pleadingly at her, holding the little hand in both of his, that it is no wonder her color rose.

  24. It was not difficult to him to smile pleadingly on those whom he had injured, and offer to do them much kindness: and no quickness of intellect could tell him exactly the taste of that honey on the lips of the injured.

  25. He looked pleadingly at Eddie as if expecting him to offer a solution of the difficulty.

  26. A look of haunting fear took its place and he stared pleadingly at Eddie.

  27. All this sounded very feasible, especially as it was backed up by Maddy's eyes, brimful of tears, and fixed pleadingly upon her grandfather.

  28. But, dearest," she argued pleadingly and partly rising, "are you sure?

  29. He did not concede it now in its fullness, but Madelene was looking pleadingly into his face and had spoken of his mother with tender sympathy.

  30. But the doctor's wife has one child after another, and then they ask so pleadingly if she can't stay yet another half-year.

  31. She stretched her arms pleadingly toward the cabin.

  32. Come out yer," he pleadingly invited Wilson, "or anyone excepting Alfred.

  33. She was very quiet, bore no visible traces of tears, but the tender lips wore a piteously sad expression of heroically repressed grief, and the purlish shadows under her solemn blue eyes rendered them more than ever--pleadingly beautiful.

  34. The beautiful face turned pleadingly to him.

  35. She did not answer, but stood gazing at him with a piteous look in her eyes--gazing so pleadingly that he sprang to his feet, a change coming over his countenance as he approached her.

  36. As he spoke he took the little lady's hand in his left and looked pleadingly in her face.

  37. The Princess inclined her head as if in acquiescence, and then looked pleadingly at Hilton, whose brow displayed an angry frown, and who had begun to pace the room, making the bamboo laths bend and creak beneath his weight.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleadingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.