The prayer of the young supplicant was as interesting as his manners were engaging, and Napoleon felt so much interest in him, that he was induced to cultivate the acquaintance of Eugene's mother, afterwards the Empress Josephine.
It comes in first as a supplicantand beggar, prays for a little lodging for a night, and promises to be gone.
Without replying, the old gentleman turned and led the supplicant away.
Dawn was already glimmering without when the supplicantat last rose and sought her couch.
The linden, with foliage withered by the autumn blasts, was more like the same tree in the spring when the birds were singing in its boughs, than yonder absorbed supplicant resembled the bold Heinz of a few days ago.
How much it must cost him to bow his stiff neck before her, who was so much younger, and approach her father, whose heart he had so pitilessly trampled under foot, in the character of a supplicant for aid, perhaps a beggar!
In a minute she must appear as a supplicant in the presence of Korinna's mother--perhaps even in that of Caesar himself--and the fate of all dear to her depended on her demeanor.
A neutral moon whose fixed face, young yet, unsmiled and uncreased with the joys and woes upheld by the supplicant ages, seemed now to soften with mellow sympathy upon a girl-heart below.
Taking a firm hold on her will, she raised her eyes full upon his supplicant figure suing before her.
The supplicant presses his threefold plea: here is my needy friend, you have abundance, I am your friend; and refuses to accept a denial.
In other cases the believing supplicant may at once enter upon the actual enjoyment of what he has received.
As the piercing tones of the supplicant swelled on his ears, they moved slowly in the direction of her person, and finally settled there in a steady gaze.
Then the supplicant turns eastward, bows nine times, and says a rhythmic form of prayer, in which some heathen elements are just discernible.
Assignes to the supplicant for the subject of his publick lesson.
The body of Advocats being met and having heard the supplicant sustain his tryal before them upon the befor-assigned title, did unanimously approve him theirin and recommend him for his lesson to the Lords favour.
Assignes to the supplicantfor the subiect of his publick examination.
Remits the supplicant to the private examinators to take tryall of his qualifications and to report.
However, Hyrcanus sent Antipater first to the king of Arabia, in order to receive assurances from him, that when he should come in the manner of a supplicant to him, he would not deliver him up to his enemies.
Adonijah also, as afraid of the king for what he had done, became a supplicant to God, and took hold of the horns of the altar, which were prominent.
Here he had been holding himself a supplicant upon the girl's mercy, and lo!
No supplicant that ever supplicated of Pam was too mean or too poor, or too ridiculous or too presuming, in her eyes, ever to be treated with the slightest breath of contumely.
Our spiritual Mother never yet turned away from any supplicant that sought her with true faith and humility.
His memory flashed disturbingly back to the boyhood days and testified for the supplicant with reminders of occasional outcroppings of cruelty in his brother as a child.
The huddled supplicant in the chair straightened painfully out of her dejection of attitude and her words seemed to come from far away.
This is what Heset the supplicant says before the royal Osiris.
Thus this ruler beseeches me, ‘Let a supplicant be protected, for he is disputing my chief city with me.
Like a poor supplicant did stand, With an old garland in his hand, Filch'd from a maypole.
Count snapped, and he spurned the supplicantwith his boot.
The supplicantthen strikes the banks of the river three times with his forehead; then dips his head into the river thrice, at each dip gulping down a mouthful of the water.
The supplicant then takes off his vest and shirt and smears his body with the fat of some newly killed animal (preferably a cat), mixed with aniseed, camphor, and opium.
