Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.
She pleads that her gain will not be the children's loss, nor the answer to her prayers an infraction of the spirit of His mission.
He pleads with us, and we can resist His pleadings.
My friend, remember that, when Christ pleads and draws, to do nothing is to oppose, and to delay is to refuse.
Roscius, the actor, Cicero pleads on his behalf, i.
In the novel, the sister is actually seduced, and her brother murdered; and yet shepleads for the offender.
The wifepleads for him as before, and obtains a promise of favour on the same terms.
Heylin; which is a shrewd book, but that which I believe will do the Bishops in general no great good, but hurt, it pleads so much for Popery.
He owns that he has not thus far made the best use of his gifts, but he pleads illness in excuse.
He preaches to her upon the sin of self-destruction and pleads with her to give up her aristocratic lover.
It was fate," pleads Eugene, weakly, "and your wish.
They let her go in the room with Denise; she pleads to have it so.
Mr. Murray declares every day that he must send Polly to Baltimore, but instead Polly goes to the city and buys ravishing fall costumes, and Violet pleads to have her stay.
Let judgment not against me pass; Behold thy servant pleads thy grace: Should justice call us to thy bar, No man alive is guiltless there.
They groan'd; and curs'd him on their bed, Yet still he pleads and mourns; And double blessings on his head The righteous God returns.
Blest is the man to whom the Lord Imputes not his iniquities, He pleads no merit of reward, And not on works, but grace relies.
Now he's ascended high, And asks to rule the earth; The merit of his blood be pleads, And pleads his heavenly birth.
When one of these trees is cut down, the Geni grieves, andpleads for its life.
With streaming tears she pleads a suppliant strain To that unfeeling churl, but pleadsin vain.
In all these cases, it is always the stronger that pleads with the weaker to abide, promising the communication to fuller life.
Listen to that voice, sweet and full as the distant rush of many waters, as it pleads in the midst of eternity that those which believe in Him may be one.
Then He launches Himself on the full current of intercession, and pleads for those who had been given to Him, as distinguished from the world of men out of which they had come.
He pleads that he is uncle to the priest and chief magistrate of the city.
Anything but that, sir,' pleads the old lady tearfully.
Nicodemus pleads for justice; he shows the incompetency of the witnesses.
He pleadsbefore the God, and all the host, of heaven.
But none of this favour could come to us, nor could we, by any means, cause that our infirmities should work for us thus advantageously; but that Christ our Advocate stands our friend, and pleads for us as he doth.
As Christ, as Advocate, pleads against Satan the interest that his Father hath in his chosen, so also he pleads against him by no less authority-his own interest in them.
Nor is it meet or needful that our advocate, when he pleads against Satan, should so limit himself to matter of law, as when he pleadeth with his Father.
The weight of the plea weighed Third, Christ pleads his own interest in them.
He pleads the pleasure of his Father in his merits.
He pleads for us, against fallen angels; why should we not plead for him against sinful vanities?
Christ pleads at God's bar; the cause cannot be removed into another court.
The catholic in this country pleads for toleration; in his own he refuses to grant it.
He pleads for the rights of a father, with the spirit of one who feels them, as well as with legal science and historical knowledge.
But Clarissa pleads and Gaston quietly shows to Don Pantaleone the contrast {268} between the two suitors, while Gomez is obliged to acknowledge gratefully that he owes his lovely bride solely to Don Gaston's joke.
But Pollio, whose only thought is of Adalgisa, pleads for her and for his own death.
His friend Marquard now pleads for him, intimating that he took the chain only to show his adroitness as a master-thief.
Everybody is touched by poor despised Ingrid's unselfishness, she even pleads for Helga's union with Erhard, nobly renouncing her own claims on his love and gratitude.
But do not laugh at the poor African," pleads Heine, "for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.
Troubridge, with touching fidelity, pleads with him to shun the temptations by which he is beset.
He lays open obscurities, and is praised for the speech of truth; and in the court of conscience pleads much in forma pauperis, for small fees.
Custom of sin hath wrought this senselessness, which now hath so long entertained that it pleads prescription and knows not to be altered.
The back appears unto the partial eyne, The plaintive belly pleads they bribed been; And he, for want of better advocate, Doth to the ear his injury relate.
It pleads but mercy in the justice of the Almighty, and but mutual amity in the nature of humanity.
He pleads the Act of Oblivion for all the good deeds that are done him, and pardons himself for the evil returns he makes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
