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Pleadingly

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1.
In a beseeching manner.  Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, importunately.






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"Pleadingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pyramidal cedars, looking down at the new grave, where Salome's wreath hung on the head-board, and hearing approaching footsteps would have moved away, but he said, pleadingly,— ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... little girl, laying one hand again pleadingly on his knee; "I didn't mean I mean I was speaking in general I wasn't ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell

... is all sure. We have leased the house for one year; and we can't move in until our furniture comes, of course. But I do long to see what the place is like, don't you?" replied Mercy, pleadingly. ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson

... let me see him sometimes, grandpapa?" the child said, taking his hand pleadingly. "He said, if you said no, I must do as you told me; because somehow you are nearer to me than he is, though I don't know how that can be. But you won't say that, will you? For, oh! I know he is so lonely without me, and I should never ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty

... "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. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891 • Various

... said pleadingly: "Take care of my dear brother"; and as I promised to care for him as if he were my own, I thought of another sister far away, who, could she be present, would echo the request: "Take care of my dear brother." With waving handkerchiefs and repeated good-byes, we moved ...
— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... she did not shriek, but she stood there rigid and immovable, her countenance giving fearful token of the terrible storm within. She was battling fiercely with her fate, and until twice repeated, she did not hear the childish voice which said to her pleadingly, "Don't look so, sister. You frighten me, and there may be ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes

... had never shown himself stern. The look which he now gave her was new to all her experience. The poor girl began to conceive much more seriously of her offence than ever;—it seemed to spread out unimaginably far, and to involve a thousand violations of divine and human law. She could only look pleadingly, without speech, to her father. His finger silently pointed her ...
— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

... Hartley, looking at her pleadingly, "you did not answer my last letter. It was only by nearly a week's search that I found where you had moved to. Why have you kept me in suspense when you knew how anxiously I was waiting to see you ...
— Whirligigs • O. Henry

... "Merry," he said huskily, pleadingly, "this poor girl is Bessie King. I loved her once. It's dead now, all the love I knew. She has been more weak than sinful. You have your boy safe in your arms. You'll take him back to Inza. You'll keep your promise to her. We were old comrades at college. I would have ...
— Frank Merriwell's Son - A Chip Off the Old Block • Burt L. Standish

... insistent. I turned the lock, slowly, and 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

... least since he could remember, had ever before smiled and asked Denny Bolton to "do it—for me." For one flashing instant he saw her eyes flare at his candid refusal; then they cleared again with that same miraculous swiftness. Once more the corners of her lips lifted pleadingly, arched with ...
— Once to Every Man • Larry Evans

... wud, Missus," broke in the negro pleadingly. "Ah ain't perzackly feered fer ter go 'lone, but Ah's an' ol' man, an' Ah reckon as how a y'ung gal wus likely fer ter see mor'n Ah wud. 'Pears like Ah's ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish

... old man! . . . ah, don't!" gasped the rich tenor voice pleadingly from the snow—"ah, don't, Burke! . . . remember, remember . ...
— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall

... 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

... him pleadingly out of her beautiful eyes. "Mr. David, you would not be intentionally cruel to me, I know, so don't speak to me of these things. It only distresses me—and can do you ...
— 'Way Down East - A Romance of New England Life • Joseph R. Grismer

... Friary standing 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 ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey

... the rest," he said pleadingly. "Why did he not value Undine's love, and what made the fool throw ...
— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn

... him, 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

... silent for a moment. Then she said, pleadingly, "Oh, Jed, it is up to you and me, isn't it? ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln

... with eyes but partly open to her own folly, was grievously perplexed and not a little disappointed. She fell on her knees and wept. Looking up pleadingly into his ...
— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris

... him ano—another!" gasped Hank Snogger. He had raised himself up on one elbow and was looking at Dave pleadingly. He was too weak to get to his feet, for his fight with the bear had lasted for some time before Dave had ...
— Dave Porter at Star Ranch - Or, The Cowboy's Secret • Edward Stratemeyer

... do" he asseverated loudly. "There are words here that I believe I understand, and I am not ashamed to own it. Why, look at it, yourself," he added, pleadingly. "That word sathan, twice repeated, can it be anything else than Satan? Yehudas, what is that but Jews? And then homox, how very near to the Latin homo! I think, too, that I have even got a notion of some of the grammatical forms of the language. That termination of en, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various

... her hands again. The man in the chair looked at her and then turned his eyes pleadingly to the other man, who remained standing close ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan

... look 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

... it's too cold in there; this is the time of year you always get that cold in your nose," Mrs. Monroe said pleadingly. ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris

... all the little points you had specially begged us to remember in connection 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 ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates

... "Forgive me," he said pleadingly, "but, of course, I knew nothing. I disliked the man from instinct—I thought he had ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... triumphant, exultant ring in her silvery voice that only charmed her infatuated companion, and tenderly pressing the hand that lay on his arm, he added pleadingly; ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... pleadingly. He was speaking a little like Harry; she had noticed during the last week that he had several things in common with his father—little things, the way that he wrinkled his forehead, pushed back his hair with his hand; she was not sure that it was not conscious imitation, ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole

... to call upon you this evening?" asked the Insect, pleadingly, as he bade the wearer of the ...
— The Woggle-Bug Book • L. Frank Baum

... he. The reconciliation was merely the first excuse on which Apollonius had seized. That was why he was so meek. That was why his wife was frightened—she had been trying to make him believe that Apollonius never came into the room. That was why she looked up at him so pleadingly. The contemptuous gaze with which she had just measured him had suddenly been torn from her consciously guilty face with the mask of pretended innocence. Now he knew with certainty: there was no longer anything to prevent; nothing ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various

... eyes staring up at him, filled with a pain which he had never seen in them before. In a moment he knew that she had understood him, and he could have cut out his tongue. Her hand reached his arm, and she stopped him, her face lifted pleadingly, the tears slowly gathering ...
— The Honor of the Big Snows • James Oliver Curwood

... 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, humbly, ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb

... 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 the obdurate will, we can ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe

... forelady appeared at that very spot, just suddenly was—and in a pleasant tone of voice announced, "We don't need any more help, male or female, this morning!" Two scared-looking girls just in front of me screwed up their courage and said, pleadingly, "But you told us Saturday we should come back this morning and you ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... boy, pleadingly, "and we found a hollow tree full of nuts, and ate them to keep alive. We didn't want to starve when there was food right in front ...
— Little Wizard Stories of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... every 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 ...
— The Lady of the Basement Flat • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... yesterday, the faces of those who walked in line with me. I was at the right end of my file, and at my shoulder was a boy from Morrownest, a slim, white-faced lad, his weak chin trembling from fear, and his eyes staring about so pleadingly I spoke a word of courage to him, whispering in his ear, lest the guard behind might strike. He glanced aside at me, but with no response in the depths of his eyes, in which I could perceive only a dumb anguish of despair. ...
— Wolves of the Sea • Randall Parrish

... him, and the expression of those fine organs was strikingly agreeable. It had, moreover, the merit of being easily interpreted; it said very plainly, "Please don't insist, but leave me alone." And it said it not at all sharply—very gently and pleadingly. Bernard found himself understanding it so well that he literally blushed ...
— Confidence • Henry James

... would stand behind you—how anxious we are to share whatever's worrying you!" Alice went on, pleadingly. "Can't you—I'm not busy like Annie, or young like Leslie, and Chris is your man of business, after all! Can't you tell us about it? Two heads—three heads," said Alice, smiling through a sudden mist of tears, "are ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris

... He looked pleadingly at the Countess. But the Countess was a mere psychic instrument, it seemed, and had to be told, first of the question—he produced it with a suspicion that she might doubt his honesty—and then of the astounding answer. ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson

... MARION, continuing in the same key and tone as her former speech ... and pleadingly.] Don't make vows that will take away this innocent ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame • Clyde Fitch

... pleadingly, the tears raining down her cheeks. She, the strong, the noble, appealing to him. In that moment she became a saint, a being to be worshipped afar off, ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various

... becomes of 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

... 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

... out her tail, sticking out her claws and scratching at posts, sneaking along as if ready to pounce, pouncing either in earnest or in fun, mewing in many voices, catching at things with nails drawn back or just a little protruded, or drawing the blood with them, laying back her ears, looking up pleadingly and asking for milk—why a cat can say almost anything she ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick

... GIUSEPPE (pleadingly). Let me go, excellency. It is my point of honor as an innkeeper to come when I am called. I appeal to you as ...
— The Man of Destiny • George Bernard Shaw

... 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 loads ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... breasts of their troubles. But fathers and uncles,—to them they are close, impregnable, "buttoned to the chin." The Caxtons were an eccentric family, and never did anything like other people. When I had ended, I lifted up my eyes and said pleadingly, "Now tell me, is ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... brother's voice came pleadingly from behind Johnny. "You can feex him easy. She's fine ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower

... think he could, for I am the tallest 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

... so that 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

... he began to swear because we were so ugly, and said if we had been good-looking, he might have sold some of us. Mother watched him anxiously, and fearing some danger to her puppies, ran and jumped in the middle of us, and looked pleadingly up at him. ...
— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders

... won't know where we're going till we get there.... Won't that be bully?... I hate to go now, dear, but you're all out of sorts—and I'll have a heap of things to do—to get ready. So will you." He stopped and looked at her pleadingly, but she could not give him what his eyes asked; she could not give him her lips to-night.... He waited a moment, then, very gently, he took her hand and touched it ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

... should wish to come and tell you of it before it is known at the school who has done it, should not be forgotten,' said Fred, pleadingly. ...
— That Scholarship Boy • Emma Leslie

... 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. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various

... he thought any one could for any reason whatever come between him and Tessibel Skinner. He did not concede it now in its fullness, but Madelene was looking pleadingly into his face and had spoken of his mother with tender sympathy. He suddenly reached out and took her hand. He would tell her of his young wife. He would take her into his confidence right then, and all would be well for them both—and ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White

... want your candy and you ain't my sister, and I won't go back. You'll beat me, and mom'll beat me and everybody else'll beat me. Don't let her take me back, please don't," Glen concluded, turning his face pleadingly ...
— Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes - The Quest of a Summer Vacation • Stella M. Francis

... Bess," he said, pleadingly. "I wouldn't hurt you—you know that, don't you? I used to like to tease you and worry you a bit, but I never meant any real harm. I was always good to you, mostly, ...
— A Campfire Girl's Happiness • Jane L. Stewart

... almost pleadingly at the other, and his voice trembled. Gunn drew himself up, and regarding him with a satisfied sneer, quitted the ...
— Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs

... man 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 ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... and you will take me, won't you?" she continued pleadingly. "You don't know how we women envy you men those wonderful walking-tours we can only read about in Hazlitt or Stevenson. We are not allowed to move without a nurse or a footman. From the day we are born to the day we die, we are never left a moment ...
— The Quest of the Golden Girl • Richard le Gallienne

... nodded. "That's always a point." He finished his glass and looked pleadingly at Tog. "Look, I have work. If I can finish some of it, I might have time for some sleep. Couldn't we postpone the search ...
— Ultima Thule • Dallas McCord Reynolds

... gazed at her half-pleadingly, half-angrily; a sudden flush testified to his sense of injury. "I've never been treated so," he said. "What is there against me, after all? That's not the way I'm usually considered. I could have ...
— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2 (of 2) • Henry James

... you,' she said, pleadingly, as she, too, rose and approached me; 'I will be quiet, I ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson

... ordered. Bobby looked up pleadingly and trembled, but he made no motion to obey. James Brown was not an unfeeling man, and he was but doing his duty. From an impulse of pity for this bonny wee bit of loyalty and grief he picked Bobby up, carried him all the ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson

... you; the pain is nearly all gone now," Elsie answered gently; and then the soft eyes were raised pleadingly to her father's face. ...
— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley

... springing to her feet, then turned to her father pleadingly: "You won't mind if we go down to meet them, will you, Dad?" she asked. "They are our chums, you know—the horses, ...
— The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle - Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run • Laura Lee Hope

... toward her so pleadingly that Faith closed her eyes instinctively. It cut her to the heart to have to witness ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

... his. How could she resist him when his strong, firm clasp was upon her; when he was looking into her eyes pleadingly, even tenderly; when his breath was on her cheek, and his voice murmured in her ear? She sat before him, contrite, conquered, strangely happy; conscious of nothing save a wish that she might die ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch

... pleadingly whispered. "I've been hunting for you all over the city since seven o'clock, and it ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop

... stranger. Sometimes an infinite weariness oppressed her to the earth. A thought was born in her mind and it had no name. It was growing and could not be expressed. She had no words wherewith to meet it, to exorcise or greet this stranger who, more and more insistently and pleadingly, tapped upon her doors and begged to be spoken to, admitted and caressed and nourished. A thought is a real thing and words are only its raiment, but a thought is as shy as a virgin; unless it is fittingly apparelled ...
— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens

... a 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 will have ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... Zoe, pleadingly, "do you think there would be any great harm in our—just for once ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade

... you not say that you forgive me?" coming still nearer, and putting out her hands pleadingly to him. ...
— Fan • Henry Harford

... "Aissa," he said, 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 with blood. Only come back. Now! At once! Are you ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad

... Storri moistened his dry lips. His San Reve was such a heathen! The thought parched him. "Whom would you kill, my San Reve?" This came off pleadingly. ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis

... abdomen gingerly and hesitated, while Nancy, his face one dogged, long-suffering bleakness, reluctantly entered the forecastle. Then, from inside, we heard oaths, vile and filthy, urgings and expostulations on the part of Nancy, meekly and pleadingly uttered. ...
— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... 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

... her out there," he said. "But she is all right— Isobel." He spoke her name almost pleadingly. "She is all right. She will not take ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood

... 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 ...
— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson

... the brown eyes that were lifted pleadingly to the face of the questioner, and a dry sob ...
— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright

... thoughtful; the old lawyer was grave and listened silently. Patsy, her arms still around the shrinking form of the child, looked pleadingly at her uncle. Beth's eyes were moist and ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad • Edith Van Dyne

... just as we used to be?" she asked pleadingly. "Can we not talk together and help each other as before? Oh, Arthur, I thought you would come here to live all summer, and how I should like it! Why can you not? Can you not let me play for you without—without—" and Helen stopped, ...
— King Midas • Upton Sinclair

... you are ill noo an' you sae weak, that mak's you talk like that. An' forby you 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 hair ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh

... The dog looked pleadingly at him. "Am I to be left behind to die in this wilderness?" his soft dark eyes seemed ...
— The Book of Stories for the Storyteller • Fanny E. Coe

... 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 ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... were the eyes that looked so pleadingly into his face! Was she a coquette? But he could only answer as in ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... aroused little or no curiosity in her mind. What was it she had been told or not told, she did not know. Somehow she did not care. She saw a pair of pleading eyes, she saw the colour rise in a man's cheeks. She saw an outstretched hand, held pleadingly to her, and she had repulsed that hand ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper

... 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, like ...
— The Sheik - A Novel • E. M. Hull

... 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

... to be 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 worked ...
— The Submarine Boys on Duty - Life of a Diving Torpedo Boat • Victor G. Durham

... think 'bout your book," Judy continued pleadingly. "Think 'bout all them fine things you-all have done wrote down for everybody ter read,—'bout the river allus a-goin' on just the same, no matter what happens, an' 'bout Auntie ...
— The Re-Creation of Brian Kent • Harold Bell Wright

... shot! And Major Morris too!" Such was the painful thought which ran through Ben's brain. He looked at the colonel pleadingly. ...
— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer

... tears came to Maggie's eyes, and, coloring crimson, she said: "I didn't mean to tell—indeed I didn't, but I forgot all about your charge. Forgive me, Hagar, do," and, sinking on the floor, she looked up in Hagar's face so pleadingly that the old woman was softened, and answered gently: "You are like the rest of your sex, Margaret. No woman but Hagar Warren ever kept a secret; and it's killing ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

... the Cowardly Lion, who, to tell the truth, was feeling a bit jealous. But Dorothy was thrilled, and as Sir Hokus continued to look at her pleadingly, she took off her hair ribbon and ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... He gazed pleadingly toward Betty, but she had put an arm about her mother—Allen noticed with joy that it trembled a little—and was leading the way toward the rear of the house, and out upon the lawn, where the big tent ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope

... to do anything but talk. I don't care what you think about my interference. I can make you work, and I will make you do something. You know you need the whip, and if none of your pleasant friends will give it to you, I can. Come!" she added, pleadingly. ...
— Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories • Robert Herrick

... less than you do if you say to me that you 'know enough!' You do not know enough. You must know all. Rick, you have said you loved me. You have made me love you. You shall hear me now!" She spoke not pleadingly, but with ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... up into his grave, stern face two or three times, then said humbly, pleadingly, "Papa, please may I put my ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley

... 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 piston over ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton

... "O Ellen!" said Julia pleadingly. "You don't understand. I am not going to slave. I'm just going to be a sort of mother to them. And you oughtn't to call them snobs. They are ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill

... will go where he goes and die where he dies. The gods can protect me just as well on a journey as here. Have they not protected you now, and Chebron too, by what he says? You will take me with you, dear Jethro, won't you?" she urged pleadingly. "You say my father wished you to watch over me; do not forsake me now. Ruth will come with us too—will you not, Ruth?—I am sure she will not be more afraid of the journey than ...
— The Cat of Bubastes - A Tale of Ancient Egypt • G. A. Henty

... milk, dear," she said pleadingly to the disagreeable little girl, who shook her head and drew back with a stiff ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... 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 ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... 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 ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve

... us get to bed!" murmured Miss Catherine, pleadingly— "What's the good of making ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli

... at 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 ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine

... "I do try to, Tom," she answered more earnestly than Tom had expected. His remark had been made only in fun. "You believe in me, don't you, Tom?" she added pleadingly. ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers

... nerves were not easily controlled, and he knelt beside her, speaking soothingly and pleadingly. "Dear Madge, dear sister Madge. Oh, I wish Mary was here!" and he kissed her ...
— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe

... her?" and he looked at his mother pleadingly, as if asking her forgiveness and her consent to ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier

... a half-smile; the great dark eyes sought his in the calling glance which seeks its companion; and in the face and voice there was something tremulous, vibrant and pleadingly anxious. Yet she did and said only commonplaces. She gave him her hand, and threw over the lap-robe as an invitation for him to take the ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick

... 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

... 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

... panel prize, won't you, Norn?" she asked, pleadingly. "Griffin and Margaret Howes both say you ought. I know you could do something ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther

... man. He was quite conscious, with bright eyes. His right leg was uncovered, and supported on a board hung from the ceiling. Its flesh was like that of a chicken badly carved-white, flabby, and in tatters. He thought I was a surgeon, and spoke to me pleadingly: ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... an arm over the shoulder of Big Joe and urged pleadingly: "Another verse of that sweet old song, boys. I tell you that has ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson

... forbidden rooms," said Jackie; "we don't go into those now. There are three of them, where the floor's given way, you know, with great holes in them. Maskells is such a jolly place," he added pleadingly; "we don't like any other ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton

... I am 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

... am not accused of too much modesty; but when I entered and looked on Veranilda—oh, it was the strangest moment of my life! Noble cousin,' he added pleadingly, 'honoured Aurelia, do but tell me ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing

... 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 happening. ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... 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 ...
— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer

... Bertram put in, half-pleadingly, it is true, but still with that same ineffable and indefinable air of a great gentleman that never for a moment deserted him. "The duke would never have heard of my ancestors, I'm sure, and I particularly don't want to be mixed up with the existing ...
— The British Barbarians • Grant Allen

... forget me, darling?" he said, pleadingly. "You will write to me, and you will let me sometimes see you?" She promised faithfully. She wept over leaving him, yet in some unaccountable way her spirits rose when she came away; she felt more free, more at ease than she had ...
— Marion Arleigh's Penance - Everyday Life Library No. 5 • Charlotte M. Braeme

... his head bent and appealing to her sideface, like one pleadingly in pursuit, and very deferentially, with a courteous vehemence, he entreated first her ladyship's pardon for his presumption, and then the gift of her ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... came on again talking to him gently, pleadingly, complimentarily: "Nice good horsey! Pretty pony so he was!" But he only edged ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill

... 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. ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay

... 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 ...
— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner

... can get a convention that will nominate me," he urged, hope and fear jostling each other to look pleadingly at me from ...
— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips

... 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 is ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various

... McVeigh is honorable and good, and this report is being circulated by parties who wish to secure her rights for their own purposes. If liquor is to be sold on the Monk Road, then, sir, I can speak for the whole temperance people of that section. Let Mrs. McVeigh have the selling," she answered, pleadingly; and so the license was extended for another year, as usual. But Moore did not receive the appointment as master at the new station of Monk the ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer

... 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

... up and said he must go. As he said this he looked pleadingly at Miss Van Tuyn. But she sat still in her chair, a cigarette between her lips. He said "good-bye" to her formally. Garstin went down with Arabian to let him out, and was away for three or four minutes. From her chair Miss Van Tuyn ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens

... still be friends, Miss Charteris?" he said, pleadingly. "Whatever comes you will ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme

... not seen each other for nearly four years, looked into each other's faces, Carol's so pleadingly hungry for the vision of one of her own, Connie's so strongly sweet and reassuring. Instinctively the others drew away, and the little group, the red-capped attendant trailing in the ...
— Sunny Slopes • Ethel Hueston

... with such a smile as he might have applied to a lovable and well-beloved son. "I hope you've got sporting blood enough in you to realize I didn't really want your little bank roll, Matt," he said half pleadingly. "I don't know just why I did it—except that I'm an old man and I know it; and I hate to be out of the running. I suppose, just because I'm old, I wanted to take a fall out of you—you're so young; and—oh, Matt, you do make a scrap ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne

... Smith played the accompaniments for a set of familiar Irish songs—"The Harp that once through Tara's Halls," "Erin go Bragh," "Kathleen Mavourneen," "The Wearing of the Green." Dorothy led the choruses, the whole U. S. C., including Dicky, sang their best, and Edward Watkins's tenor rose so pleadingly in "Kathleen Mavourneen" that Mrs. Smith ...
— Ethel Morton's Holidays • Mabell S. C. Smith

... face at the sound of her approaching tread and her winning voice, and the face was so sad that the tears rushed to her eyes on seeing it. She laid her hand on his shoulder, and said pleadingly, "Dear Sir Peter, ...
— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... think too hardly of me!" she said, pleadingly,—"I've told you frankly just how I feel,—and you can imagine how glad I shall be when this yachting trip comes to ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli

... Jack, rising, "you need not worry. Tom Barnum keeps a whole armory of weapons here. He has at least a half dozen pistols and automatics. As for us, we are all pretty fair shots and used to handling weapons. Now, look here, Captain Folsom," he said, pleadingly, advancing and laying a hand on the other's arm; "I know what you are saying to yourself. You are saying how foolish it would be for you to encumber yourself with three harum-scarum boys. But that is where you make a mistake. We have been through ...
— The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards • Gerald Breckenridge

... against the withers of the black. It troubled the stallion. He turned his head, and nosed the shoulder of the master gently, and Black Bart, in an agony of anxiety, reared up beside Dan and brought his head almost up to the head of the man; there he whined pleadingly for never before had he seen the master ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand



Words linked to "Pleadingly" :   beseechingly, imploringly, importunately



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