supplicatory

1 He very justly observed, that the style was too supplicatory, and the representation too abject, and that he ought at least to have made him complain with "the dignity of a gentleman in distress."

2 "Let me go," he said again, with a look of supplicatory appeal.

3 All improvements have to be urged in apologetic, almost in supplicatory tones.

4 Laddie stood and looked into his face with something of the supplicatory appeal that was on the countenance of the man he had just left.

5 Sire," cried Josephine, with supplicatory voice—" sire, by the recollection of that hour, I conjure you, forgive me that I now live in those rooms which Marie Antoinette once inhabited.

6 Her letter was supplicatory, spasmodic, full of sorrow, and full of love.

7 Some of the delegates were surprised by the supplicatory tone of the Islamists, many of them religiously indoctrinated guerrilla fighters used to living lives of isolation in the desert.

8 I was about to reply, but Owen looked at me with such a supplicatory and warning gesture, that I was involuntarily silent.

9 None of them were in a supplicatory style: the Emperor already spoke as a master; he did not entreat, he commanded.

10 After this he paused, and turned a supplicatory look at his captor.

11 In Moscow, officials are playing down Putin’s supplicatory position.

12 A silent appeal to Heaven succeeded; and then, without one supplicatory address for mercy, in a manly tone, he inquired what time would be allowed them to prepare for death.

13 It was the whine of the Hindu beggar, halting, supplicatory, almost revoltingly servile.

14 A napkin is thrown over the box; and the puppet is thus carried about, and exhibited from door to door, by a boy, the others chanting some supplicatory lines.

15 From this terror, however, they were gradually in some measure relieved by the supplicatory language and tones of the person seeking admittance.

16 Like most of its kind, it is formal, sentimentally prolix, and supplicatory, yet not without a certain pleasant interest.

17 At this moment, Raeburn rushed to the window, with the view of calling for assistance; and one supplicatory cry, which, however, was unattended to, he did emit.

18 Her supplicatory tone and attitude, though they were somewhat assumed, proved to what a height Musa had recently risen as a personage.

19 "You cannot see my father, mother," she said in a broken and supplicatory tone.

20 The lights at the altar burnt dimly in his eyes—the loud antiphon and the supplicatory prayer fell upon a listless ear.

1 恳求的

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2 恳求

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3 哀求

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4 祈愿

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5 哀求的

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