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suppliant example sentences
suppliant
1. Again, the wind brought just the suggestion of a voice, a voice whispering now, a suppliant voice, begging for mercy
2. The Holy Spirit, Who provides for al things, wil not leave any suppliant uninformed and empty
3. She lay naked on her supple belly upon the bare marble like the most abased suppliant, her dark hair streaming over her white shoulders, her slender fingers intertwined
4. I will go naked, on my knees, as befits a suppliant, lest Mitra deem I lack humility
5. How could he sleep when he would be in Mecca in one step, circumambulating the honorific Ka’ba, or standing suppliant at Mount Arafat, and then with a reverse step, returning to his house?
6. It was a new and awkward role for Murtha as suppliant, and he evidently did not relish it
7. Madame Defarge looked, coldly as ever, at the suppliant, and said, turning to her friend The Vengeance:
8. She went on in a tender, suppliant manner
9. My hands are hot with your kisses, and there is the spot on the carpet where at my knees you swore an eternity of love! You made me believe you; for two years you held me in the most magnificent, the sweetest dream! Eh! Our plans for the journey, do you remember? Oh, your letter! your letter! it tore my heart! And then when I come back to him—to him, rich, happy, free—to implore the help the first stranger would give, a suppliant, and bringing back to him all my tenderness, he repulses me because it would cost him three thousand francs!"
10. suppliant for your protection
11. As the piercing tones of the suppliant swelled on his ears, they moved slowly in the direction of her person, and finally settled there in a steady gaze
12. with his captors; the anxious eye of Hawkeye began to look around him, with an expression of peculiar earnestness; and Cora again threw herself at the feet of the patriarch, once more a suppliant for mercy
13. She did not resist, but, trembling like a leaf, looked at him with suppliant eyes
14. then when I come back to him—to him, rich, happy, free—to implore the help the first stranger would give, a suppliant, and bringing back to him all my tenderness, he repulses me because it would cost him three thousand francs!"
15. I went to my room and reread Joseph Alexeevich’s letters and recalled my conversations with him, and deduced from it all that I ought not to refuse a suppliant, and ought to reach a helping hand to
16. Hamstrung, the old old man foundered to his knees, as did his suppliant images, his congregation of terrified selves one week, one month, two years, twenty, fifty, seventy, ninety years from now! every second, minute, and long-after-midnight hour of his possible survival into insanity, there all sank grayer, more yellow as the mirrors ricocheted him through, bled him lifeless, mouthed him dry, then threatened to whiff him to skeletal dusts and litter his moth ashes to the floor
17. On suspended brass; nor did the suppliant crowd fear
18. "Do you know, Yulia, do you know," he said in a gasping and suppliant voice, "do you know that even I can do something?" But at the renewed and even louder laughter that followed his last words he clenched his teeth, groaned, and suddenly rushed, not towards the window, but at his spouse, with his fist raised! He did not bring it down—no, I repeat again and again, no; but it was the last straw
19. The Decurio stroked the fair hair of the lovely suppliant
20. The Deity or Devil whom we worship is not to be mollified by our suppliant appeals
