He rode out to the besiegers' camp, carrying the keys of the castle dangling from his lance, and presented himself a suppliant before the Scottish king, as if to deliver up the keys.
When the suppliant grasped this knocker he was safe, for over the door two monks kept perpetual watch to open at the first stroke.
As soon as admitted the suppliant was required to confess his crime, whatever it might be.
For oft I sent him suppliant prayers by men Who touched this isle, entreating him to fetch And bear me safely home with his own crew.
Let him not thus reject in silent scorn Without response the suppliant of Heaven!
Now too, great Oedipus of matchless fame, We all uplift our suppliant looks to thee, To find some help for us, whether from man, Or through the prompting of a voice Divine.
Others there are who crowd The holy agora and the temples twain Of Pallas, and Ismenus' hallowed fires, A suppliant host.
Nay, if thou knowest, turn thee not away: All here with suppliant hands importune thee.
Nurslings of Cadmus, children of my care, Why press ye now to kneel before my gate With sacred branches in those suppliant hands, While o'er your city clouds of incense rise And sounds of praise, mingling with sounds of woe?
Christ God, who died for sinners all, Hear thou thissuppliant wanderer's cry; Let not e'en this poor sparrow fall Unheeded by thy gracious eye.
Nor could Rome's haughty lord withstand The claim that look preferred, But motioned with uplifted hand The suppliant should be heard,-- If he indeed a suppliant were Whose glance demanded audience there.
When tired at length with unsuccessful toil, To shun his angry sire and native soil, 10 He goes a suppliant to the Delphic dome; There asks the god what new-appointed home Should end his wanderings and his toils relieve.
Alcinous did not know what to do or say, nor yet did any 154 one else till one of the guests Echeneüs told him it was not creditable to him that a suppliant should be left thus grovelling among the ashes.
When Telemachus heard that Ulysses was a ship-wrecked 68 suppliant he was much displeased.
What would have happened if he had suffered serious injury while a suppliant in our house?
Nevertheless, Eleazar had so contrived matters that, while he guarded against surprise, he should appear before the Council as a suppliant imploring justice rather than a leader dictating terms.
With all its manly daring, there was yet in the depths of those keen eyes a gleam of womanly compassion and tenderness, that emboldened a suppliant and reassured a prisoner.
The walls rocked beneath the strokes of the maddened populace, and Cencius, falling at his prisoner's feet, became himself a suppliant for pardon and for life.
It was on the 21st of March, the festival of St. Benedict, that Francesca herself entered the convent, not as the foundress, but as a humble suppliant for admission.
Perdita, suddenly throwing off the suppliant air and the appealing looks which she had ere now assumed, and resolving to act with the energy natural to her character.
I flew, and at my children's feet, distracted, A suppliant lay; till to my prayers and tears The voice of nature answered in their breasts!
Why do we lift Our suppliant hands, and at the sacred shrines Kneel to adore?
You are where it becomes you, Lady Stuart; And thankfully I prize my God's protection, Who hath not suffered me to kneel a suppliant Thus at your feet, as you now kneel at mine.
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
This argument, though in itself unanswerable, was too bluntly stated to be favorably received; Louis dismissed the suppliant with the indifferent answer, that the matter depended on the Archbishop of Paris.
Instead of being the suppliant he became the dictator, for whose favour princes sued.
But Abdallah, chief of the Khazraj, and formerly leader of the Disaffected, becamesuppliant for their release.
And thus yor said supplianthath loste alle his coste and labour, to his charge by his feyth this iiij.
Footnote 26: He sternly refused his hand to the suppliant praefect, whom he sent into Tuscany.
Oppressed by the conspiracy of the Asiatic prelates, Athanasius withdrew from Alexandria, and passed three years [112] as an exile and a suppliant on the holy threshold of the Vatican.
These overtures of peace, translated into the servile and flattering language of Asia, were transmitted to the camp of the Great King; who resolved to signify, by an ambassador, the terms which he was inclined to grant to the suppliant Romans.
And I have followed to the cross, On which a dying Saviour hung, Bemoaned my sins with weeping eyes, Besought his grace with suppliant tongue.
He struggled long with his passion, but when he found he could not subdue it, he came a suppliantto her mansion.
He had armed himself and was about to mingle with the combatants, but was prevailed on by Hecuba, his aged queen, to take refuge with herself and his daughters as a suppliant at the altar of Jupiter.
At last an aged statesman, addressing the king, said, "It is not fit that a stranger who asks our hospitality should be kept waiting insuppliant guise, none welcoming him.
And straightway Circe became aware of the doom of a suppliant and the guilt of murder.
But we two, Argus and I, will await thy return, apart in this very spot; do thou all alone be a suppliant and win her over with prudent words.
I implore thee by Hecate herself, by thy parents, and by Zeus who holds his guardian hand over strangers and suppliants; I come here to thee both a suppliant and a stranger, bending the knee in my sore need.
Her story is told in Aeschylus' Prometheus and in a magnificent chorus of his Suppliant Women.
The Agamemnon is not, like Aeschylus' Suppliant Women, a statue half-hewn out of the rock.
This conception of Zeus is expressed also in Aeschylus' Suppliant Women, and was probably developed in the Prometheus Trilogy.
For a moment he thought of restoring the suppliant to his position, but events were marching too swiftly, and demands more urgent jostled aside the claims of an obscure lieutenant with a shady character.
Strange eyes around thee glisten, To a strange tongue thou dost listen, Strangers bend the suppliant knee: Do thou not, for all their seeming Truth, forget the constant beaming Eyes at home that watch for thee.
If this sacrifice had been made in vain, he would not answer, but that the suppliant might be converted into the sovereign, and that the monarch might not avenge his injured dignity on his rebellious subject.
As a suppliant did the haughty subject receive the deputy of his sovereign.
Yet neither his pride, nor his interest, permitted him to sue in person for this post, and as a suppliant to accept from the favour of the Emperor a limited power, when an unlimited authority might be extorted from his fears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suppliant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
