Everybody is working for Robert; everybody is working at top speed for him, and everybody is loudly soliciting his attention.
In disclosing the truth, I should be conceived to be soliciting my lady's mercy and intercession; but this would be the madness of presumption.
Then see no pardon be granted; you may stop anything; I know Euphues will be soliciting for his son.
If so, Whence grows this coldness in soliciting My brother to the match?
Some envoys (the latter said) were now at Sparta from the Thracian Chersonesus (the long tongue of land bordering westward on the Hellespont), soliciting aid against their marauding Thracian neighbors.
The hurried movement of Agesilaus had been dictated by the desire of reaching the field in time to contend for the possession of the bodies, and to escape the shame of soliciting the burial-truce.
It cost Gerard a struggle to get near him, and when he was within four heads of the gate, he saw something that made his heart beat: there was Peter, with Margaret on his arm, soliciting humbly for entrance.
Whilst I have been preaching, who preach so rarely and so ill, the good cure has been soliciting the lord of the manor to step into the church, and give order what shall be done with his great-great-grandfather.
Thus the cost of soliciting labor in Alabama for each agent was upwards of $1,000.
Four Southern cities and as many States brought lawsuits against a great Northern railroad for violation of the laws and ordinances regarding the soliciting of labor to be sent outside the boundaries of these respective cities and States.
During the wars with France Pitt was always soliciting the help of the Bank.
Seven weary years hath he been soliciting the rich and the great to furnish him with the means of undertaking his favorite voyage.
Seven weary years had he beensoliciting the monarchs and nobles of Spain to aid him in his enterprise.
It is many years since he has beensoliciting their Highnesses for their royal aid in effecting his purposes.
Think not that I have passed so many years of my life in soliciting the means to effect so great a purpose, and have got thus far on my way, in unknown seas, with a disposition to be easily turned aside from my purpose.
Answers were sent soliciting his early presence, high honors were proffered to him, and his name filled all mouths, as his glory was in the heart of every true Spaniard.
One hour he hath passed in arguing with philosophers and in soliciting princes, while the next hath been occupied in laboring for the food that he hath taken for sustenance.
Miss Anthony wrote hundreds of letters in its interests, and walked many a weary mile and had many an unpleasant experience soliciting advertisements, but the Republicans were hostile and the Democrats had no use for The Revolution.
Undaunted, she set forth under a blazing July sun and tramped up and down Broadway soliciting advertisements for the fly-leaves of the new literature she meant to have printed.
Thus the mournful and ghastly cortege arrived on Palais Royale Place, where a concourse, drunk with wrath, were holding council and soliciting the French troops to help them against the foreign ones.
They, thus enforced into the fleet, again 450 Stood fast, with mutual exhortation each His friend encouraging, and all the Gods With lifted hands soliciting aloud.
I saw but one way to cut short these everlasting delays, which were ruining the officer soliciting the payment of the money, and keeping our seamen out of what they had hardly fought for, years ago.
I had been more than a year soliciting leave to go home, with a view to place my daughters in the society and care of their friends, and to return for a short time to my station at Paris.
That officer has been here, under the direction of Congress, near two years, soliciting the liquidation and payment of that money.
Fanny's heart beat quick, and she felt quite unequal to surmising or soliciting anything more.
When the rescue party entered the place, they saw the girl with the handkerchief to her face, at the soliciting window.
Through their connection with men like Kelly they are given the protection necessary to enable them to conduct immoral resorts or to keep women soliciting on the streets, without interference from the police.
In his side he bore And in his hands and feet the cruel scars, With gentle force soliciting the darts, He drew them forth and healed and bade me live.
Soon after I had fixed my habitation in Brussels, the company at our hotel was increased by three officers, who professed themselves my admirers, and came from Ghent, with a view of soliciting my love.
He, therefore, resolved to combat with the impressions he had already received, and, if possible, cultivate her friendship without soliciting her affection.
Swift was therefore compelled to rest content with obtaining what favours he could for those friends of his who he knew deserved advancement, and he allowed no occasion to slip by without soliciting in their behalf.
The office of Recorder to this city being vacant by the death of a very worthy gentleman,[188] it is said, that five or six persons are soliciting to succeed him in the employment.
The natural taste is neglected, thwarted, and tormented, till, wearied ofsoliciting its own gratification, it ceases to interfere with the independent action of the soul.
Does the reader wish to know the motive she had for soliciting this singular privilege?
One of them, after vainly soliciting the minister for payment during fourteen years, had the courage to present a memorial to the King, and thus obtained tardy and ungracious justice.
He was consequently soliciting the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and was not without hopes of obtaining it through the all-powerful influence of his financial connections.
Those exiles who had incurred the condemnation of their fellow-citizens for subservience to Sparta, now found the season convenient for soliciting Spartan intervention to procure their return.
The despot was at length compelled to send an embassy excusing his recent violence, offering to restore Pelopidas, and soliciting to be admitted to peace and alliance with Thebes.
Dionysius farther despatched envoys to Sparta, soliciting a reinforcement of a thousand mercenary auxiliaries.
The inhabitants of Egesta, engaged in an unequal war with rival neighbors at Selinus, were in both cases the soliciting parties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soliciting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
