If none of the answers enable him to guess the subject, he tries each player with the second question, and if the answers to this leave him still in the dark, he solicits a reply from each to the third and last question.
It also gives a boy a good notion of how mechanical labour is done, as no boy will ask for work unless he understands something of the nature of the business he solicits to be employed upon.
S^r H Milmay solicits a Cityzens wife for w^{ch} his owne Corrects him] 49.
Mildmay solicits a Cityzen's wife, for which his owne corrects him.
Thou wrong'st a gentleman who is as far From thy report as thou from honour; and Solicits here a lady that disdains Thee and the devil alike.
May be the amorous Count solicits her In the unlawful purpose.
When a Minister thus solicits advice from all the world how to govern, he most assuredly declares his own incapacity, and tells the people that now they must govern themselves.
In the course through these there will be no STA BENE (this is the answer given to one who solicits preferment, and is refused).
Freeholders, this Colonel Lygon again solicits your votes, that he may again oppose the beneficent and patriotic intentions of His Majesty's Ministers--again oppose every measure beneficial to the people.
The chief wife is called Mazarira, or the mother of the Portuguese, who frequently make presents to her, as she solicits their affairs with the king, and he sends no messengers to them but accompanied by some of her servants.
The second queen is called Inahanda, who solicits for the Moors.
The Emperor solicits earnestly the triple contingent from the empire.
Pelet solicitsthe convention for the return of order, of justice, and of commerce.
General Santerre solicits a discharge from the command of the troops of Paris, that he may have leisure to attend to the affairs of his brewery.
The Duke has justly observed that Isabel is importuned against all sense to solicit for Angelo, yet here against all sense she solicits for him.
The author solicits subscriptions for his work before publication.
The oxygenous water solicits the basic principle in the earth; this issues forth, but still combined with its oxygen that has become free; the formerly identical earth is a calcareous earth in a state of tension with itself.
The same agent, which creates the air solicits also its two principles unto combustion in the water; and the same act, which separates the oxygen gas out of the air as water, separates also the carbon from it to constitute earth.
One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicitsin marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.
One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
Their names were given to the East India Company by a London correspondent, who solicits the consignment for them, without mentioning their connection with the Governor.
As soon as their individual welfare solicits them, they desert the general welfare: in which I find them, if not honorable, at least worthy of excuse.
The investigator saw a prostitute who solicits on Sixth Avenue take four different men to this address within an hour, the first floor of which is a house of prostitution run by Madame Rose.
A girl who solicits on the street for a vice resort in a tenement on West 38th Street is a "dope fiend," and the madame of a flat on West 43rd Street, where there are four inmates, is addicted to the opium habit.
One of the singers was recognized by a man who had seen her in a house of prostitution in a city in Pennsylvania; one of her companions solicits for immoral purposes on Broadway.
The animal turns its head round and licks your hand, to reward the polite attention, and solicits a continuance of your favors.
While directing attention to what has been declared rejected, the author solicits no confidence in his judgment, beyond that which results shall sanction, and reason approve.
The moral faculty is provoked to reaction in proportion to the vividness of ideas in the soul, which incites it to activity and solicits its sensuous faculty.
But nature obstinately maintains her rights, and as it is never by the result of free choice that she solicits us, she also does not withdraw any of her exigencies as long as she has not been satisfied.
The natural instinct solicits the sensuous faculty through the combined force of pain and of pleasure: by pain when it asks satisfaction, and by pleasure when it has found what it asks.
If a Prince solicits a vote at an election, he is to be punished with perpetual exclusion.
Present time and future may be considered as rivals; and he who solicits the one, must expect to be discountenanced by the other.
This is what the present generation claims at their hands; and it should be remembered that what one generation solicits as a boon, the next generation demands as a right.
If a wretch solicits my pity, I observe that the world is filled with impostors, and take a certain method of not being deceived, by never relieving.
Mark put forth an unfinished Gospel; when the obvious and easy alternative solicits us, of supposing, II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "solicits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
