"Pleadingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pleadingly she turned to Isabel. "Darling Mrs. Everard, need you go now? Wait till the morning! It is so late now. It will ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... VIOLA (pleadingly). But not till then; that gives us two more days. You see, darling, it's going to take me all I know to get round him. You see, apart from politics you're so poor—and father ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne
... laid her hand on his arm and looked into his face pleadingly. "Dick," she said, "you're not ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... and amateurish as they might be—and I pretended, up and down the length of the land, to none other—leave me at the hither end of time with little more than a confused consciousness of exquisite quality on the part of the small sweet scrap of a place of ancient glory; a consciousness so pleadingly content to be general and vague that I shrink from pulling it to pieces. The Republic of Pisa fought with the Republic of Florence, through the ages so ferociously and all but invincibly that what is so pale and languid in her to-day may well be the aspect ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James
... me so early in the term, please," said the utility man pleadingly. "Goodness knows, I'll get more than my share between now and Christmas. I mean, how ...
— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield
... looked at him. An eager flush lit his still boyish face—Guy was twenty-eight—and his blue eyes were very bright. His lithe, muscular figure bent toward her pleadingly; all his arguments were aimed at her. Oliver sat back in his impassive way and watched them both. It could not be denied that it was Marian's decisions which usually ruled in matters ...
— On Christmas Day in the Morning • Grace S. Richmond
... fingers twitched worse than ever; the large soft eyes looked up pleadingly into Sally's face; but she went on in the same strain, not from any unkind or cruel feeling towards Mary, but solely because she was incapable ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... Charlotte, taking her hand without a glance, told the Captain's hard request under her voice. Miss Harper, too, in her turn, gave a start of pain, but when the dying eyes and smile turned pleadingly to her she said, "Why, if you can, Charlotte, dear, but ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... she read and then stopped and looked from one to the other pleadingly. "I can't do it; I can't read it ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... she whispered, and she felt of it, looking at him plaintively. "It is so swollen I can't get my boot off. And the leather seems like an iron band around it." She looked pleadingly at him. "Won't you ...
— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer
... it; I meant to have sent him away before any of you came up," she said, quite pleadingly. "Sarah took upon herself to proclaim aloud that his eyes were not straight, and I could not help having him brought down to refute her words. Not straight, indeed! She's ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood
... screamed Daria. "Oh, let's go at once! Come, Var-Vara! What a surprise for papa when he gets back! Is it the wooden box? You might tell me," cried Daria, fixing her blue eyes on the old mujik's face pleadingly. ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... hope. At every enumeration of will, pride, and appetite she saw the Pastor's gaze rest pleadingly on her, and in the stillness of her inmost heart she confessed the evil presence of that unregenerate trinity. Yet when he rose to bid all mourners for sin come forward while the next hymn was being sung, she only mourned that she could not go, ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... Judith answered pleadingly, "I'm not tired or sleepy, Peter. And I almost never get a chance to talk alone with you. Let me sit up ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... is nothing to tell you—" she laid one hand on his coat, almost pleadingly, and looked up at him out of eyes so dark that only the starry light in them betrayed that they were blue and not ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... think about it?" she faltered. A sudden brightness came into his face. "You know how I was brought up to think of divorce," she went on, pleadingly. "I've made plenty of mistakes in my life, but I've never deliberately done what I felt ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... Says pleadingly, half in a whisper: "Please, darling papa, don't cry; I know Birdie's going to Heaven— I heard ...
— Debris - Selections from Poems • Madge Morris
... direction of study or trivial circumstances of travel. With some even admirable persons, one is never quite sure of any particular being included under a general term. A provincial physician, it is said, once ordering a lady patient not to eat salad, was asked pleadingly by the affectionate husband whether she might eat lettuce, or cresses, or radishes. The physician had too rashly believed in the comprehensiveness of the word "salad," just as we, if not enlightened by experience, might believe in the all-embracing ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot
... saw in far distant regions, which in that orb none else could discern, the rays that parted from the all-guarding Eye; and heard the VOICE of the Eternal One bidding him act as his pity whispered. He looked on the spirit, and her shadowy arms stretched pleadingly towards him; he uttered the word that loosens the bars of the gate of Purgatory; and lo, the spirit had ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... pitchfork over there? With that in my hands I'll make Swallow see—Look out! For heaven's sake, don't go near him! He'll kill you." She had taken two or three steps toward the dog, her hand extended pleadingly, only to be met by an ominous growl, a fine display of teeth, and a bristling back. As if paralyzed, she halted at the foot of the ladder, terror ...
— The Day of the Dog • George Barr McCutcheon
... words of rebuke and bitter reproach. I was mad with passion; resolved to slay myself, if she did not then and there disclose to me either her love or her contempt. I dared all, to win all. She stood pallid and trembling before me, and, as I railed at her, she extended her arms humbly and pleadingly toward me. Oh! she was fair and beautiful as a pardoning angel, with these glistening tears in her wondrous, dreamy eyes, fair and beautiful as a houri of Paradise; when at last, carried away by her own heart, she bowed down and confessed that she ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... not snub me any more, will you?" he said, pleadingly; "because I never use bear's grease or musk, and my hair isn't ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... with Miss Pearl's probable prejudices. It was so splendidly written, and so quickly, that you can imagine our delight! We could not bear to give up planchette even after both our names had been signed, and I said pleadingly: 'Oh, don't go away! Do stop and tell us ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... up at him very pleadingly as if in hopes that he must relent when he saw her in distress. "Please, won't you take what you want and go away? Please don't disturb mother, it would nearly ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... content for her mother to repeat that word almost indefinitely—a soothing word when uttered by another, a riveting together of the shattered fragments of the world. But Mrs. Hilbery, instead of repeating the word love, said pleadingly: ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... empty; and there is the furniture; and there will be about fifty pounds, perhaps less, when every thing is settled. And we have clothes enough to last some time, and——" here Dulce put her hands together pleadingly, but Phillis looked at her severely, and went on: "Forty or fifty pounds will soon be spent, and then we shall be absolutely penniless; we have no one to help us. Mother will not hear of writing to Uncle Francis; we must work ourselves ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... a moment and them opened slowly, looking up into his with a still-lingering fear in them. "You won't send me away?" she whispered pleadingly, ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull
... (With a parody of G.'s manner.) A damned lie! (Recklessly.) Yes, I can swear as well as a Trooper, Pip. I can't make my head think, though. That's because they cut off my hair. How can one think with one's head all fuzzy? (Pleadingly.) Hold me, Pip! Keep me with you always and always. (Relapsing.) But if you marry the Thorniss girl when I'm dead, I'll come back and howl under our bedroom window all night. Oh, bother! You'll think I'm a jackal. ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... upon you, hoping that you will be brave and wise enough to take such action as will fully atone for all the horrors of the past and secure for us every right due to all honorable, loyal, law-abiding citizens of the United States. Pleadingly they look to you to extract the arrow of shame which hangs quivering in every bosom, shame at ...
— Imperium in Imperio: A Study Of The Negro Race Problem - A Novel • Sutton E. Griggs
... would have to do,' said Toby pleadingly, 'would be to stir the soup for my grandchildren's dinner, ...
— The Pot of Gold - And Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins
... deserted within; on the kitchen table, where Big Tom's breakfast dishes are strewn about, is the milk bottle and a cup; the beds are unmade, the sink piled high, and circling the unswept floor wheels Grandpa, whimpering, calling softly and pleadingly, "Johnnie! Little Johnnie! Grandpa wants Johnnie!" And tears are dimming the pale, old eyes, and trickling down into the ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... me why you have brought me here?" asked Jim, swallowing the lump in his throat, and looking pleadingly up to the cruel stranger. "What do you want ...
— Brave Tom - The Battle That Won • Edward S. Ellis
... She looked pleadingly at Aunt Hitty, who had always valiantly defended her from the encroachments of ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... me give it to the rooms,' she said, going up to him and putting her hand on his arm lightly, pleadingly. 'I shall be ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... Howland could not have told a moment later. All that he saw was the face, white in the white night—a face on which the shimmering starlight fell as it was lifted to his gaze, beautiful, as clear-cut as a cameo, with eyes that looked up at him half-pleadingly, half-luringly, and lips parted, as if about to speak to him. He stared, moveless in his astonishment, and in another breath the face ...
— The Danger Trail • James Oliver Curwood
... foulest blasphemies, afterwards, suddenly, to bow their heads, crossing their hands over their breasts, and suppliantly promising masses, candles, offerings, to the Virgin of Rosario and the Holy Christ of the Grao, addressing those miraculous beings pleadingly, intimately, as though the divinities were present in the flesh there before them. Dolores finally drew her shawl about her and crouched for shelter behind the outermost rock, the wash from the surf climbing up around her legs, but her eyes she held ...
— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Kate, almost pleadingly. "I don't think we can eat anything. And it's time we were on the trail. Please excuse us and ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... it, only I wish I could have just one more helping of sausages and maybe a little more potatoes; I think I'd feel entirely satisfied then," said fat Babe Wilson, looking pleadingly at Romper. ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
... Deborah Read come to say to you—to say to you—that she should have remembered that you were a stranger in a city full of strangers. (Pleadingly.) Indeed, indeed I did not mean to hurt you! I do not mind your rusty clothes; I do not mock your—your faded hat. I—I have been full of foolish pride. Will you ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay
... up into his grave, stern face two or three times, then said humbly, pleadingly, "Papa, please may I put ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... a hand on Barlow's arm and her eyes were lifted pleadingly to his: "You must go, Sahib—mount your ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser
... must go out to Fernald's camp. I must go at once. Oh, Reube! could you take me there? Tom's gone over to the Point after his aunt Harriet with our team, and there's no knowing when he'll get back. I can't wait! I must go, this moment!" She clasped her hands tightly together and looked pleadingly up into his face. "Don't hesitate, Reube. That dying man ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... ventured, in a small, beguiling voice, "perhaps this poor man has his pride of an artist. You see, I have a fellow feeling!" She smiled pleadingly, yet mischievously, and turned an explanatory glance on the cure. "I was an artist, and I should so love to know what ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... I love, why, then I pleasure in doing them. I will fashion for thee such a robe as thou hast never seen. Oh! I know how beautiful it will be. I will make new patterns such as no squaw hath ever dreamed of before. But thou wilt never be really angry with me. Father, wilt thou?" she questioned pleadingly. "And if I should at any time do what displeaseth thee, and thou wearest this robe I make thee, then let it be a token between us and when I touch it thou wilt forgive me and grant what I ask ...
— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson
... you ask such a question? Because of the emeralds. It is only a mad lark, after all, and no one need know of it. Oh, Monsieur Valmont,' she cried pleadingly, clasping her hands, and yet it seemed to me with an undercurrent of laughter in her beseeching tones, 'will you not enact for us the part of clergyman? I am sure if your face were as serious as it is at this moment, the robes of a priest ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr
... marvellous tenderness and pleading in those great patient eyes. His hand is reached out beckoning, and you cannot miss the hole in the palm of it. The hand points to the road He trod for us. And His voice calls pleadingly, "Take this same road; get in behind. I need ...
— Quiet Talks on Following the Christ • S. D. Gordon
... you may tell me so," resumed Madame Desvarennes, softly. "I know what you think, but that is not enough." She added pleadingly: ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... said pleadingly. "Why did he not value Undine's love, and what made the fool throw ...
— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn
... moment and then added, pleadingly, "You know that's a good work to do for the sake of other people, besides the owner. And you don't know but that they may have a better owner soon, whom you will like to work for. If I die, my cousin Tradgett ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... pleadingly, pressing his lips to a chink between the stakes. "Aissa, do you hear me? Come back! I will do what you want, give you all you desire—if I have to set the whole Sambir on fire and put that fire out ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... the rim of his glass. Oliver started to speak but Mr. Piper put up his hand. "No—please—it will be so much easier if I finish what I have to say first," he said rather pleadingly. ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... orders from Captain Dynamite," called Morgan to his men as O'Connor slid down into the boat. The negro who had followed close at his heels peered over the side and whispered pleadingly: ...
— A Voyage with Captain Dynamite • Charles Edward Rich
... boyhood affection that none there had heard uttered for fifty years nearly; and it was as though a stone had been rolled away from a tomb—as though out of the grave of a dead past a voice had been resurrected. "Eddie!" he said a third time, pleadingly, abjectly, ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... said eagerly; "by here it will be quiet. Do walk so," he added pleadingly, as she hesitated, "we have not long to be together. Il faut me gater un peu. There is but ...
— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner
... seemed rich with mystic presage. Pleadingly my hands went out to her, and trustfully she put hers into them. Slowly I backed between the two big trees, our eyes held as two charmed beings. Everything about me called to her, everything in her urged compliance; and I knew, as did she, that something strange was ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... pressing timidly forward near to him who had been chosen, took his hand, and looked pleadingly into the face of the messenger. "May not I, too, go?" she asked. "I believe I could ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson
... another full minute. It was a strange situation, strained to the utmost, but his faith in the little seamstress was so great that he almost reverenced her. He felt that it would be better for Liz to be with a friend of her own sex, and he turned to her pleadingly. ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... better. That one may know our wish and purpose, recognize our efforts, but quietly baffle us by an independent will that we can no more coerce and control than by our breath soften into spring warmth a wintry morning. We can look pleadingly into some dear one's eyes, clasp his hands and appeal with even tearful earnestness, and yet he may remain unmoved, or be but transiently affected. Though by touch or caress, by convincing arguments and loving entreaty, we may be unable to shake ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe
... him so pleadingly that he was deeply moved. He felt his blood calling to him, and the ties of kinship stirring strongly in his heart. Pictures of Ballyards passed swiftly through his mind, and in rapid succession he saw the shop and Uncle Matthew and Uncle William and Mr. McCaughan and ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine
... "Take me," she cried, pleadingly. "The Mexicans steal me from my people and bring me far away. They meet Kiowa. Kiowa ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter
... not reply directly; perhaps some recognition of the coldness with which she regarded him penetrated his understanding, for he added pleadingly: ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... up last summer. I thought [very tenderly] you might like a piece of that bacon you liked so once, dear. Ah, sweetheart, shall we ever sit down to our little board? Shall we ever see the end of this awful war? Don't you think, dear [very pleadingly], it would be best to give it up? King George is not such a very bad man, is he? I've thought, sweetheart [very confidently], that mayhap you and he might make it all up without the aid of those Washingtons, ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... clasped pleadingly, mutely besought the youthful officer to assent. As if he would not do everything in his power to urge the general to consent to the exchange! The young Frenchman galloped down the road toward Raab. Count Vavel took his place beside ...
— The Nameless Castle • Maurus Jokai
... helpless, Joe looked pleadingly at his captor. "You wouldn't send me up, would you, now, Patches?" he whined. "You an' me's good friends, ain't we? Anyway he wouldn't let me go to the pen, an' the boys wouldn't dast do nothin' to me ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... Whereupon Fanny darted nimbly to one side, out of the way of boyish brown fists. In that moment she was transformed from a raging fury into a very meek and trembling little girl, who looked shyly and pleadingly out from a tangle of curls. The boys were for rushing ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... more gently, "I shan't give you away unless I see that the Prince is being treated unfairly. Let things drift for a week, since he has consented to a truce—don't do anything against him." The words were spoken almost pleadingly. ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... the pain is nearly all gone now," Elsie answered gently; and then the soft eyes were raised pleadingly ...
— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley
... over them but a coarse blanket or quilt, and without a spark of fire to warm them, though the weather was extremely cold and they were literally freezing to death. Some of them were too far gone to speak, and looked at me so pleadingly that I can never forget the impression it made. Arrangements were made for their comfort as soon as ...
— Political Recollections - 1840 to 1872 • George W. Julian
... a woman rushed into the room. Something about her seemed familiar to me. I passed my hand over my forehead—but it was useless. I bowed low and started to walk out, but she seized me by the arm, calling my name, pleadingly. Her soft brown hair was all loose and hanging, and her big eyes swimming; her whole body trembled so ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... left the room for a moment. As he came out on the corridor, and was about to return to the guest room, he found the maid O'Moto awaiting him with water and towel. A slight puckering frown came over Iemon's face at this imprudence. Said the girl pleadingly—"Danna Sama, deign to exercise patience. That of the mistress is sorely tried. The absence of the other guests, the pursuit of Kibei Dono, who only seeks to compromise her and secure her expulsion ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... there," he said. "But she is all right— Isobel." He spoke her name almost pleadingly. "She is all right. She ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood
... put out her hands pleadingly—the childish hands that had seemed pathetically pretty ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... movement of the small, graceful head. I was sorry for her, for being young and feminine myself, I could understand how dull was the claim of linen covers for injured bindings, compared with that swift, exhilarating rush. I looked at the Vicar, and began pleadingly, "Couldn't I—"; then the Squire looked at me, pulled out his watch, ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... seemed to understand, for she turned away a few steps and then looked at him pleadingly, standing with her jaws open, and her long dripping tongue working like a ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton
... Joe pleadingly, "if you mean all that you been sayin' about wantin' to help me, you'll do somethin' ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... at him pleadingly; and he leaned forward and took her hand. "Jessie," he said, his voice trembling, "I know that these working people are oppressed; I know it, because I have been one of them! And I know that such men as Peter Harrigan, and even my own brother, are ...
— King Coal - A Novel • Upton Sinclair
... Kit, you wouldn't be so cruel!" she whispered pleadingly. "You know what he would think. He—oh, Kit, let them all get settled for the night, and then come down, like a dear, and help me out. I know ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... clear idea of his intention. She looked up at him pleadingly, but he was staring at the horses, his teeth biting nervously at his under lip. Suddenly he blinked, and she saw his eyes moisten. In the same instant he threw up the rifle. At the thin, vicious ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... eyes looked pleadingly from under their long, dark lashes, and a soft blarney crept into her voice, there were few people who could resist her. Janie flushed pink; she was so seldom asked to do anything for anybody! She had no natural gift for narrative, but she made ...
— The New Girl at St. Chad's - A Story of School Life • Angela Brazil
... maun mind that there are ither folk wha'll be vexed if you dinna get better. Your faither and your mither wad like to see you weel an' happy, an' oh, Mysie, Mysie, I want you to get weel!" he broke out passionately—pleadingly, the misery in his voice going to her heart as it cried to her, ached for her, and suffered for her. "Wad you hae married me, Mysie, if I had asked you afore you went awa'?" and his hands were again stroking tenderly the brown ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh
... start. Beyond doubt he had winced as though stung, and was now striving to grope his way to the railing. She divined his purpose in an instant, and her slender hand was laid pleadingly ...
— The Deserter • Charles King
... gasped the White Linen Nurse. A little tremulously in her hand the empty cup she was carrying rattled against its saucer. "Do I have to tell?" she repeated pleadingly. ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... I continued pleadingly, "that you all sing softly. If you will only consent to try me once I promise to stick like cobbler's wax—I beg your pardon, I mean I will endeavor to adhere to the morendo and perdendosi style—don't you know? What am I saying! But I promise you, Yoletta, I shan't ...
— A Crystal Age • W. H. Hudson
... can never atone. I forgot how sacred is your throne. Let me depart in disgrace." He stood erect as if to forsake the throne he had stained, but she, swayed by a complete reversal of feeling, timidly, pleadingly ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... pleadingly, "if I may see him just once again! If I just don't have to lose him all at once!" She ran then across the room to another window, through which she whistled shrilly at the negro man dozing in the succulent grass in front ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... hands on his shoulder, gazing pleadingly into his flushed face. "Don't, don't," she cried; "it's all right. Slim knows all about it. He knows I love you, and he wouldn't hurt any one that I ...
— The Round-up - A Romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama • John Murray and Marion Mills Miller
... softly, pleadingly, almost prayerfully. But the thrower of stones waited to hear no more. As he came nearer, almost near enough to touch, holding her with dumb eyes so different from those she had expected, she fired another shot—it seemed just to fly out ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various
... on hand to help just a bit, if I can," murmured Eph, pleadingly, "and to wish the boat good luck as she strikes the water. My father used to work in this yard, and I ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham
... DINAH (pleadingly). You won't mind going to the post office by yourself, will you, because, you see, Brian and I—(she ...
— Second Plays • A. A. Milne
... relinquish his grip. He looked pleadingly at his little mistress across the swagman's trouser-leg. Norah struck her saddle ...
— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce
... longing that was passionate urged her to brave his silence. Pleadingly she raised her face ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... I have known her all my life, and she has much more depth than those would think who only know her manner.' And Laura looked pleadingly at ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... hurt her. She freed one hand and laid it pleadingly, caressingly, against his neck. "Oh, Dicky," she said, "try ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... who was a pretty, gentle-faced spinster, could not hush her mother, whisper as pleadingly as she might into the sharp old ear in the bonnet-frills. The old woman was full of the desire for tea, and could scarcely be restrained from following up its fragrant scent ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... Camilla, pleadingly; "believe me, I will not do as papa says, and I will not be so stupid as to live in a small town, where it is so still ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... clearness, the music lifted into the night—low and pleadingly at first; then stronger and more vibrant with feeling, as though sweetly insistent in its call; swelling next in volume and passion, as though in warning of some threatening evil; ringing with loving fear; sobbing, wailing, moaning, in anguish; clearly, gloriously, triumphant, at last; ...
— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright
... to a horse that was dying of starvation, on the edge of what had once been a field of beets. He had fallen on his flank, and every now and then would raise his head and look about him pleadingly, with a deep inhalation that ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola
... because, after all, I'm only human! And I may have to go back yet—I may—" She stopped abruptly and threw back her head. With spirit she exclaimed: "No, I won't go back. I won't!" Then, her tone changing again, she said pleadingly: "But please don't talk about it any more. ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... said Harwood pleadingly, "upon this my wedding day cast aside your bitterness of spirit for ever, ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... eyes upward pleadingly, caught her breath, threw the back of her hand against her temple, and dashed it again to her lap, ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable
... girl, laying one hand again pleadingly on his knee; "I didn't mean I mean I was speaking in general I wasn't thinking ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell
... Pleadingly, pitifully, the words were spoken, but they did not move the listener. Hurriedly, as if all but spent, Ann ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock
... over and abstracted several drops from a bottle of tonic on the table, pouring it into his handkerchief, which he rolled up tightly and stuffed into his pocket. Mrs. Cranston watched him pleadingly, and clasped her hands in mute appeal, with a hasty ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve
... no answer, for indeed he had not heard her; but she was coming toward him now, her hands outstretched in a wondering way, wistfully, pleadingly, as though to hold back a refutation that would change the dawning light upon her face to dismay ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... feel that way, Lu," Grace said pleadingly; "Jesus is just as willing to take you for ...
— The Two Elsies - A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket, Book 10 • Martha Finley
... very sorry, and she is to accept my dear love. Will you, Dick?" and Nellie looked pleadingly up in the boy's ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... at the time appointed and found him again shattered, trembling, sweating, and hovering about the fire. He said he had slept none, was suffering much, and that his knees especially were aching badly. He called pleadingly for the amount of morphine prepared for that day, as he had not taken it. It was given, and then he conversed freely for an hour ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day
... friendship?" Mr. Longdon earnestly and pleadingly asked, while he still held Vanderbank's arm as if under the spell of the ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... Ages, cleft for me," 'T was a woman sung them now, Pleadingly and prayerfully; Every word her heart did know. Rose the song as storm-tossed bird Beats with weary wing the air, Every note with sorrow stirred, Every syllable a prayer,— "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
... away from her, leading the pony forward, his head bent low, his shoulders stooped. There was a dejection apparent about the action which her eyes could not mistake. She touched him pleadingly. ...
— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish
... earl, pleadingly, "do not so grievously disappoint me. My heart yearns to have you to myself for one little moment where spying eyes cannot see nor prying ears hear. It is cruel in you to raise my hopes only to cast ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... gone to his room to substitute a pair of far from fashionable carpet slippers for the smart pumps he had been wearing. There was a great deal of excitement attending the placing of the children, but it passed unnoticed by Mr. Flanders. He was staring hungrily, pleadingly at the unfriendly back of ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... words, Ramona came to the window, and leaning out, whispered, "Are you talking about Alessandro's staying? Let me come and talk to him. He must not go." And running swiftly through the hall, across the veranda, and down the steps, she stood by Alessandro's side in a moment. Looking up in his face pleadingly, she said: "We can't let you go, Alessandro. The Senor will pay wages to some other to go in your place with the shearers. We want you to stay here in Juan Can's place till he is well. Don't say you can't stay! Felipe may need you to sing again, ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... either of impulse or mischief, and the dire result of his deed was a thing he had been too unsophisticated to foresee. The plight in which he now found himself plainly amazed and overwhelmed him and he looked pleadingly at ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... the tears from my stony heart, as agony will sometimes force out the drops of perspiration when the body is shivering with cold. I was young like you once, and my bridal was fixed—" She paused, and stealing an arm around her waist, Rosamond said pleadingly, "Tell me about it, Miss Porter, I always knew you had a history. Did ...
— Rosamond - or, The Youthful Error • Mary J. Holmes
... said, pleadingly. "Look, I took a course. I mean, the best school, you dig? It don't work that way. It ...
— Something Will Turn Up • David Mason
... head aloft, and his sorrowing face was turned ever toward the fleeting object of his love. Hills, valleys, forests, plains, and other mountains separated them now, but over and beyond them all he could see was her fair face lifted pleadingly toward him, while her white arms tossed wildly to and fro. But he did not know what words she said, for the envious air would not bear her messages ...
— A Little Book of Profitable Tales • Eugene Field
... towels and basin of hot water. It never occurred to either of them to knock for admittance, and Ethelyn was obliged to endure their presence, which she did at first with a shadow on her brow; but when Andy asked so pleadingly that she try the hot water, and Eunice joined her entreaties with his, Ethelyn consented, and lay very quiet while Eunice Plympton bathed the aching head and smoothed the long, bright hair, which both she and Andy admired so much, ...
— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes
... said, pleadingly. "Levinsky is right. You can't sell goods unless you know who you ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... of them all, and every one says I look as if I was seventeen, at least. And then she told me grand gentlemen and officers didn't care what nonsense they talked. You know she didn't know him so well then,' said Violet, looking up pleadingly. ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... pleadingly, "the old way is the best way! I cannot bear to take you—to have you promise ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... "King who might inspect their morals" From Jupiter. Then 'twas Juventus Mundi; The true King-maker now is—Mrs. GRUNDY, And she insisted that our modern Frogs Should have a King—the woodenest of King Logs. At first this terrified our Frogs exceedingly, And, sometimes passionately, sometimes pleadingly, They grumbled and protested; But finding soon how placidly Log rested Prone in the pool with mighty little motion, Of danger they abandoned the wild notion, Finding it easy for a Frog to jog On with a kind King Log. But in the fulness of the time, there came A would-be monarch—Legion ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891 • Various
... in her voice, a pathetic catch in her breath, almost a sob, as she forced herself to speak these words; then bravely, pleadingly, she lifted her ...
— Possessed • Cleveland Moffett
... am not afraid. I have hay the white man will pay me for. If I go, he will not pay me. If I had a father, I would not leave him." He spoke pleadingly, and his prophet bore him down by ridicule. Two Whistles believed, but he did not want to lose the money the agent was to pay for his hay. And so, not so much because he believed as because he was afraid, he resigned his ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... leave her place at once," said her mother over and again. "But the doctor's wife has one child after another, and then they ask so pleadingly if she can't stay yet another half-year. They think great things of her; she is so reliable ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... been mistaken as to the train I am to travel on, for the lady that has just left secured a berth on that train after I had failed," said Eunice pleadingly, for she desired the seclusion of a sleeping car for her mournful ...
— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs
... to the signs that she was irrevocably engaged, and all the ugly visions, the alarms, the arguments of the night, must be met by daylight, in which probably they would show themselves weak. "What I long for is your happiness, dear," continued Mrs. Davilow, pleadingly. "I will not say anything to vex you. Will you ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... will forgive me," said the Daemon pleadingly. "I am not really a bad person, you know; and I believe I accomplish a great deal of ...
— A Kidnapped Santa Claus • L. Frank Baum
... haste in this matter. Bring the release tomorrow, and I will consult authority in the meanwhile," said the keeper pleadingly. ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson
... me—can you not say that you forgive me?" coming still nearer, and putting out her hands pleadingly ...
— Fan • Henry Harford
... Bello, go with the goats," cried Fritz. Bello's ears and tail drooped, and he looked pleadingly up at Fritz. ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... on again talking to him gently, pleadingly, complimentarily: "Nice good horsey! Pretty pony so he was!" But ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
... she, pleadingly, as she leaned back in her usual attitude in the chair, and made a sign that I might draw her home, "we will not either of us wear it for the other,—without nor within either, will we?—any more than we can help. Don't you remember what dear mamma said once, when you had made two mistakes ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various
... Charlotte, pleadingly, "you must let me do what I think is right. I couldn't sleep, thinking of little Ellen to-night. Besides, when Annie was worrying about her Thursday, I as much as promised we'd see that no ...
— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond
... o'clock in the morning ten or twelve thousand National Guards from the arrondissements of Batignolles, Montmartre, La Villette, and Belleville poured into the streets. Crowds of lookers-on surrounded the soldiers who were mounting guard by the recaptured pieces, the women and children asking them pleadingly if they would have the heart to fire ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... end?" he asked, as one who pleadingly opposes an argument that is unreasonable. "Another would replace him, and there is little to choose among the ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
... in honesty, and earn my bread, and so prove my strength—then, perhaps, I might find the courage, the—the effrontery to tell you why I want your good opinion.... Now I've said far more than I meant or had any right to. I hope," he ventured pleadingly—"you're ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance
... I don't want you to run into any danger down at the lake shore," said the girl, looking at him pleadingly with her big ...
— The Rover Boys Under Canvas - or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine • Arthur M. Winfield
... your own benefit. Surely you can see that?" The lawyer spoke almost pleadingly. "It would be idiocy, madness to throw away such a fortune for a quixotic idea! You have never come into contact with young people of the class to which you really belong or you would realize all that circumstances ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant
... sparkled when Jack Carleton leaped to his feet and declared he would go with him on the search for the lost horse (subject, of course, to the consent of his mother), and the German youth looked pleadingly toward the good woman, who, it is hardly necessary to say, yielded consent, giving with it a large amount of motherly counsel, to which the boys listened respectfully, though candor compels me to say that the thoughts of both were far away among the green woods, ...
— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... last desperate attempt. "Miss Thorne," he said, pleadingly, "please don't be unkind to me. You have my reason in your hands. I can see myself now, sitting on the floor, at one end of the dangerous ward. They'll smear my fingers with molasses and give me half a dozen feathers to play with. You'll come to visit the asylum, sometime, when you're looking ...
— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed
... put his supper on the table and was beckoning him with swift gesture. "You eat," he said pleadingly. And Achilles ate hastily and gave directions for the basin of water and towels and a sponge, and the boy carried them into the ...
— Mr. Achilles • Jennette Lee
... believe—" she murmured. "I think I could believe—anything, if I might learn it from you." She paused pleadingly; then, as he still stood unresponsive, the color rushed again into ...
— The Mystics - A Novel • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... sprang up and made an impulsive step forward. "Oh, don't!" she cried out pleadingly. ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... came over and took both her hands in his own with a half-savage affection. "Loraine," he said pleadingly, "I wanted to dance with you tonight. I searched high and low, but I couldn't find you. For my part I have spent a very ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... something of the hardness left his expression. A look of haunting fear took its place and he stared pleadingly ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various
... that he longed for it, then almost believed that he was going lo do it. Whenever common sense snorted, "Nonsense! Folks don't run away from decent families and partners; just simply don't do it, that's all!" then Babbitt answered pleadingly, "Well, it wouldn't take any more nerve than for Paul to go to jail and—Lord, how I'd' like to do it! Moccasins-six-gun-frontier town-gamblers—sleep under the stars—be a regular man, with he-men ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis |
