entreat

How To Use entreat In A Sentence

• [From Vivaculus:]… I hasted to London, and entreated one of my academical acquaintances to introduce me into some of the little societies of literature which are formed in taverns and coffee - houses.
• Perhaps you can entreat some strapping young lad into educating you in the ways of the world.
• And I'm bound to say that my entreaties did not fall on deaf ears.
• I clasped my hands in entreaty, and Uncle Geoff had such a funny look in his eyes that I quite stared at him. The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children
• It was a woman's voice: quiet, controlled, underlaid with an odd note of entreaty.
• The necromancer appealed for my support, entreating me to stand firm by him, and to have assafetida flung upon the coals; so I turned to Vincenzio Romoli, and told him to make the fumigation at once. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.
• She wasn't in tears; she was if anything brusque, her tone between command and entreaty. A WORM OF DOUBT
• The lips of the Prior were moving in a kind of agonised entreaty, and his eyes rolled round. The King's Achievement
• She empowered him to tell them, that whatever blame she might throw on Mary's conduct, any opposition to their sovereign was totally unjustifiable, and incompatible with all order and good government: that it belonged not to them to reform, much less to punish, the maleadministration of their prince; and the only arms which subjects could in any case lawfully employ against the supreme authority, were entreaties, counsels, and representations: that if these expedients failed, they were next to appeal by their prayers to The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.