How To Use Entreat In A Sentence
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[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.
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Perhaps you can entreat some strapping young lad into educating you in the ways of the world.
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And I'm bound to say that my entreaties did not fall on deaf ears.
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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
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It was a woman's voice: quiet, controlled, underlaid with an odd note of entreaty.
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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
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One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.
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She wasn't in tears; she was if anything brusque, her tone between command and entreaty.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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The lips of the Prior were moving in a kind of agonised entreaty, and his eyes rolled round.
The King's Achievement
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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.
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And beneath the vituperation was the telltale entreaty to Tanenhaus that he should exercise more judgment in his selection process if anyone wanted to take the
Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits
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He had hung crude crosses and other charms all around his home and regularly recited the Magnificat, and he fervently entreated the protection of the Lady every night.
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The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of life falls on him.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.
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She would, she pleaded, write herself to Prince Llewelyn, entreat him to agree for her sake.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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‘Now is the moment of maximum pressure, and the coalition must withstand it,’ it entreats.
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‘We really ought to tell them we're weighed down with responsibility and not the carefree single girls we seem,’ I entreated.
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Then turning toward the camera, he entreats: ‘Mr. Premier, in this final negotiation, offer nurses what you were prepared to pay for the Army.’
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The voice of the stranger was raised as though in anger or altercation, while that of the Governor was pitched lower, in tones that seemed to convey the idea of expostulation, entreaty, and apology.
A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
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Miracles can be worked by Him alone, although mere mortals may entreat Him by prayer to perform them on their behalf.
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She would, she pleaded, write herself to Prince Llewelyn, entreat him to agree for her sake.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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The initial July 1999 request yielded 68 contracts; an assortment of entreaties has the number up to 249 responses.
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He was steadfast in his devotion, firm in his beliefs, and constant in his prayerful entreaties.
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Embarrassment is likely a factor: Girard readily acknowledges that most people he meets with, ranging from scholars to politicians, ignore his entreaties or dismiss him as a lunatic.
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Damascus, 463 and see what hath become of the cook whose sweetmeats we ate and whose head we broke, for indeed he was kind to us and we entreated him scurvily.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This was with men and women dressed in traditional clothing for Ecuador, and with usually the men "entreating" the women to dance or be with them.
Undefined
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But or he came so far forward, Arnold bishop of Liege had been with the king and had greatly entreated for the duke of Juliers, that the king should not be miscontent with him, though he were father to the duke of Gueldres; for he excused him of the defiance that his son had made, affirming how it was not by his knowledge nor consent, wherefore, he said, it were pity that the father should bear the default of the son.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Bella corresponded with Wagenseil directly, rebuffing his entreaties that she come to Altdorf, which had no Jewish community.
Bella Perlhefter.
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Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain?
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Come thou, and entreat his blessing!
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And he entreated all to look beyond the immediate horror of the attacks for the reasons behind them.
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Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
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Her voice had become soft and entreating, a voice she rarely allowed herself to use, for it made her sound vulnerable and weak, and she hated it.
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He knew that he would pray, and beg, and entreat, even as Big Ivan and the others that had gone before.
Lost Face
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Her final plea that he entreat divine grace on her behalf can only be read, given the pains she took to equate divinity with intellect, as a request for intellectual freedom.
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The Imam Rafeek Mohamed entreated God for love, kindness, and compassion for all creations; a safe, secure and clean environment; comfort for the suffering, while calling on us to recognize, embrace and celebrate our differences.
Liz Neumark: Breakfast for Champions
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“The jest hath been played,” she said, with as much firmness as she could assume; “may I entreat that your Highness will now unhand me?” for he still kept hold of her arm.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Early last year I made an entreaty for the digitization of several great LPs, mostly from the 80s, that still hadn't made it to CD for whatever reason.
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It was the week before Christmas, yet the only sign of Yuletide decoration was a large bowl on the counter entreating tips.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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an entreaty to stop the fighting
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Sir," saith Lucan, "Lancelot well knoweth that and you had taken no counsel but your own, he would not have been thus entreated, and I dare well say that never so long as he liveth will he misdo in aught towards you, for he hath in him much valour and loyalty, as many a time have you had good cause to know.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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And she mostly steadfastly ignores my shouted commands, my entreaties and panting demands to be set free when the siren songs call me again.
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Observe, It is no disparagement for those who have power to be condescending, and sometimes even to beseech, where, in strictness of right, they might command; so does Paul here, though an apostle: he entreats where he might enjoin, he argues from love rather than authority, which doubtless must carry engaging influence with it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Mrs. Lewis begged that Elma should not be taken away from her; and Mrs. Steward, angry with herself for what she termed her folly, had yet yielded to her sister's entreaties.
Wild Kitty
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Then he knelt by a bush of gorse, told his beads, and earnestly entreated direction and aid for himself, and protection for his sister; and when the sun grew so low as to make it time for a wanderer to seek harbour, he stained and daggled his gown in the mire and water of a peat-moss, so as to destroy its Oxford gloss, took a book in his hand, and walked towards the monastery, reciting Latin verses in the sing-song tone then universally followed.
The Caged Lion
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This is how a Carmelite is entreated by the Rule to move through the corridors of the convent; but in her case, it was too perfect; it was contrived to shield her.
INVIDIA
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What had begun as a command, even a threat, ended up quite differently, came as close as John could get to entreaty.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
Philippian 4.
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Miracles can be worked by Him alone, although mere mortals may entreat Him by prayer to perform them on their behalf.
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But the entreaties of her earlier prayers echoed in her head.
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stipendiaries" as a "purely royal and liberal gift, which it would esteem as great and precious as if his Majesty had presented it an inestimable sum of silver or gold," other political motives prevented him from yielding to its entreaties.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The nobleman entreats the blacksmith to accompany him on a sacred mission.
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But whom should he entreat, or compel, or induce by rewards, to instruct the czarevitch to become a czar?
The Talking Beasts
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No bullying nor entreating of the forewoman could persuade the women to return to work.
CHAPTER XIV
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She shouldn't entreat her elder like that.
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It consisted chiefly of a dialogue between the two lovers; and the boy, with a wonderful ease and grace and skill, mimicked the shy coquetries of the girl, her fits of petulance and dictation, and the pathetic remonstrances of her companion, his humble entreaties and his final sullenness, which is only conquered by her sudden and ample consent.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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Hee tooke the onely pleasure of the world, to beare false witnesse, if hee were thereto entreated, and
The Decameron
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Writing to Egbert, Archbishop of York, of whose bibliomaniacal character and fine library we have yet to speak, Boniface thanks that illustrious collector for the choice volumes he had kindly sent him, and further entreats Egbert to procure for him transcripts of the smaller works
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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[The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of life falls on him.] "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!
English Songs and Ballads
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When the Danaides reach Argos, they entreat King Pelasgus to protect them.
Archive 2009-03-01
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She leaned toward him, entreaty in her eyes, and as he looked at her delicate face and into her pure, limpid eyes, as of old he was struck with his own unworthiness.
Chapter 26
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Embarrassment is likely a factor: Girard readily acknowledges that most people he meets with, ranging from scholars to politicians, ignore his entreaties or dismiss him as a lunatic.
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She repeated to him the following words from the third verse of the fourth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Philippians: "I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labor with me in the gospel, whose names are in the book of life.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
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Undercover narcotics officers baited pharmaceutical entrepreneurs with entreaties for Molly.
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Only after their entreaty failed did they arrest him.
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Tim Linkinwater condescended, after much entreaty and brow – beating, to accept a share in the house; but he could never be prevailed upon to suffer the publication of his name as a partner, and always persisted in the punctual and regular discharge of his clerkly duties.
Nicholas Nickleby
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He was a proud man, and there was no entreaty in his voice.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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There was a note in his voice which couldn't be called entreaty, but was far from a direct orderand I was accustomed only to orders.
Hot Money
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Juno, too, was entreated by the matrons, first, in the Capitol, then on the nearest part of the coast, whence water was procured to sprinkle the fane and image of the goddess.
Tacitus on Mythicism
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The Foundation cajoles, entreats, and I hope charms supporters into giving generously to make opinion pages better.
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The entreaty was the entreaty of a child, a frightened, bewildered child.
The Iron Woman
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My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris — two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance.
Letters of Two Brides
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Sir Hugh, with entreaties that he would write a few lines to Mrs. Tyrold, in exculpation of her sorrowing daughter.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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‘Workers all over the world need our help’, he entreated.
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My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again.
Chapter 5
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Boy, boy, _boy_!" called the old lady in a voice so entreating, though tremulous, that Bobby felt constrained to return.
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
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He said he had a note for a gentleman in the Mint, and entreated that "gora," "white man," to let him in, but instead of doing so he threatened to kill him.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
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Ashore there was a clamor for Scundoo, and the whole population crowded his door, entreating and imploring in confused babel till he came forth and raised his hand.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
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“Hout no! hout no!” said Mrs. Butler, in a tone of entreaty; “ye maunna affront the Captain.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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It was about that time that the Count de Melfort, colonel of the Orleans regiment, entreated me through Camille, Coraline's sister, to answer two questions by means of my cabalism.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 06: Paris
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What good did come from my first crusade was due chiefly to him; a kind of revivalist spirit was upon him, and many unsuspecting freshers who had only thought of the river as a place to avoid, were unable to resist his entreaties.
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate
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Be careful of my friend , I entreat you, and leave me.
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He did not know whether anything he could say in that chamber would be noticed by the people of the town; but he would like to entreat them to be very gentle and careful towards the ruins.
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The story begins with Balak, king of the Moabites, entreating Balaam to ‘curse me this people for he is too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite him, and that I may drive him out of the land ’.
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She would, she pleaded, write herself to Prince Llewelyn, entreat him to agree for her sake.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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[(terms entreated she would leave that horrible scene, and permit him to convey) 29.2 (her to the)] TJ
Monmouth: a Tale, Founded on Historic Facts
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Please don't go, I entreat you.
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Oh, no, Master Mott, don't do that, I beg and pray of you," said nurse, all but wringing her hands in entreaty.
"Carrots": Just a Little Boy
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No sounds were heard as they entreated entrance to the village.
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So off they rushed home, seized the unhappy man, and, without listening to his cries and entreaties, hurried him down to the river bank and flung him — plop! — into the deepest, weediest, and nastiest place they could find.
The Orange Fairy Book
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His sentiment has become philosophical, as we are not cowed by caustic warnings but entreated with seductive and satisfying draftsmanship.
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MY Presence being no way serviceable to you in Barbary, and the Repose of my future Life calling me with the utmost Expectation to Fez, I humbly entreat your Permission to return thither.
Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel
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Camilla was now intent to clear the history of the cotillon; when Mrs. Berlinton approaching, and, with graceful fondness, taking her hand, entreated to be indulged with her society: and, since she meant not to dance, for Edgar had not asked her, and the Major she had refused, she could not resist her invitation.
Camilla
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Since Hezekiah feared the Lord and entreated his favor, Zion was not plowed under as a field.
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Respecting the kingdom of Numidia, which is your own property, determine as you please, but if the memory of my grandfather Masinissa is still cherished by you, deliver me, I entreat you, by the majesty of your empire, and by the sacred ties of friendship, from the inhuman hands of Jugurtha.
Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War
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So when the ice began to pop under my spreadeagled body still twenty feet from her and then the opaque white beneath me changed to a soft, rotten gray and now I was fifteen feet away and then, at ten, the ice sagged perceptibly, I stared at my good dog with the same entreaty I saw in her eyes.
Spring Ice
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She wrote to him, and in the tenderest terms entreated he would reconcile himself to what was past, and as a consolation, to be thankful what he had so much feared had not happened, that she lived, and would never bring reproach on him; beseeched him, as he valued her peace of mind, not to think on her with regret, but to rejoice in her happiness.
Simple Facts; or, the History of an Orphan
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She entreated help in her work.
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Why did they have to "entreat" him, if he had come all the way from Boston for that purpose?
Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply
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[Sidenote: The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of life falls on him.] 'O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!'
Rime of the ancient mariner
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Therefore disregarding their entreaties he prayed unto God for the soul of the derider, and went on his way.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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There was a helpless entreaty in his voice, as though he were afraid that she might see him and retrace her steps.
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One can only imagine the offers and entreaties made to screenwriter Simon Beaufoy.
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He entreated / implored / beseeched her not to desert him.
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Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation.
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I would have given a lot to be a fly on the wall so I could hear what final entreaties Ellen was making.
BETTER THAN THIS
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Lilly missee," crooned the Chinaman, smiling up into the other's face with a sort of childish entreaty.
Bat Wing
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This I most earnestly entreat, and I know you will comply.
Chapter 5
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I found him hostile to my entreaties.
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But O Mesdemoiselles, 'she continued, clasping her hands in entreaty,' you do not know how I should like to come down into your garden and play with you, or at least, 'as she suddenly recollected that such tall young ladies were rather past the age for mere' playing, '' walk about and talk with you.
The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance
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The poor mother entreated the teacher to forgive her son.
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Miracles can be worked by Him alone, although mere mortals may entreat Him by prayer to perform them on their behalf.
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I would have given a lot to be a fly on the wall so I could hear what final entreaties Ellen was making.
BETTER THAN THIS
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Say to your Lady that I am bound in duty, to attend the good houre of her leisure, without so much as the very least prejudicate conceite in me: Neverthelesse, entreat her, to let it bee so soone as she possibly may, because here is miserable walking, and it beginneth againe to snow extreamely.
The Decameron
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And at the last, after many words, there was a clerk which had been longing to S. Erkenwold, and saw this strife, and stood up and commanded silence, and told to the people a great commendation of the virtuous life of this holy saint, and said it was not honest, ne according, to misentreat the holy body by violent hands, but let us beseech Almighty
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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Haeduōs accūsat, praesertim cum eōrum precibus adductus bellum suscēperit, _he blamed the Haedui, especially since he had undertaken the war at their entreaties_.
New Latin Grammar
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tearful entreaties
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However much you may entreat him, you will get little or nothing.
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Please," I entreated, "Allow Jimmy to come and apologize to you because it would be good for him to do so.
Christine Schanes: Why Do We Discriminate Against the Homeless?
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But now, so uncertain are our tempers, and so much do we at different times differ from ourselves, she would hear of no mitigations; nor could all the affected penitence of Honour, nor all the entreaties of Sophia for her own servant, prevail with her to desist from earnestly desiring her brother to execute justiceship (for it was indeed a syllable more than justice) on the wench.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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He smiled at everyone and joked with everyone in a decent way. Alone he was always crying and entreating Allah for forgiveness for his Ummah.
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Cooley appeared in person in May to appeal that decision, but his entreaty was rebuffed.
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Families are distressed by the anorexic behavior, which resists both entreaties and threats.
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I've imparted to his nature this bit of ill-gotten reliance on commonplace conventionality, and I thus entreat him to explain his motives.
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Then Ito turned upon me and poured out an impassioned entreaty that he might be "honourably" permitted to take charge of and fire the torpedoes himself.
Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
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She shook her head, and the lady's eyes grew more entreating.
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However, Merv ignores the entreaty, which is held in front of his face, and heads downstairs.
'S Wonderful, 'S Mervelous!
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There had been countless prayers offered up to that razor over the years, entreating it to slip!
COLDHEART CANYON
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Oh, I entreat you -- I implore you, my dear, _dear_ --
The American Baron
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The irony of "The Beggarwoman of Locarno" may be that language is never certain to answer its own entreaty, which is to say that the word Fall can never be as good as its name and become one case of falling, one Fall des Falls, among others.
Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
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Please--" She extended a hand to Wheeler in a tentative gesture of entreaty.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Please don't go, I entreat you.
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Noble Martuccio, there is a servant of thine in my house, which came from Liparis, and requireth to have a little private conference with thee: but because I durst not trust any other with the message, my selfe (at her entreaty) am come to acquaint thee therewith.
The Decameron
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She had, at first, yielded to our entreaties; but when she heard that her favourite was recovering, she could no longer debar herself from her society, and entered her chamber long before the danger of infection was past.
Chapter 2
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The other day they got their heads together, and wanted me to do something, and I refused flatly, and they begged, and entreated, and argufied, till I made them all get down on their knees and ask me.
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Messieurs," the King went on, "madame has joined her entreaty to that of the Queen for the life of Mademoiselle de Paradis, and very willingly and from my heart have I signed this pardon.
Orrain A Romance
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He began with entreaties and ended with a threat.
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Pastor Reid is a gifted preacher whose ability to alternately command like a prophet and entreat like a parent plays off the emotion and Christian devotion of his flock with near-perfect pitch.
American Grace
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Additional monetary support spurred on by entreaties from Sarah and Todd Palin sealed the financial deal.
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): Internal Emails Show Joe Miller Campaign Distancing Itself From Tea Party
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Booker T. Washington made his mark with the infamous “Atlanta Compromise” speech, in which he entreated black Southerners to “cast down their bucket where [they were]” and accommodate white Southerners in hope of obtaining equality through humility and diligence.
W. E. B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin | Edwardian Promenade
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Suitably chastened, may I humbly entreat him to, unambiguously and without obfuscation, answer a few pertinent questions?
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Trevor Steven entreated them to delay their departure.
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His entreaty is hard to swallow, given the biographical kernels in all of his plays, but easy to take, given the unguarded, imploring nature of his gaze.
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I entreat all of you who have any sort of influence over impressionable young minds to introduce them to the great bands of the past.
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I believe he spoke to her for a long time, entreating, wondering, pleading, ordering, I suppose.
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She could not refuse the protection he offered in a person of her own sex; and now, flushing with the thought of where they were together alone, feminine modesty shrivelled at the idea of entreating a man to bear her off, though feminine desperation urged to it.
The Tragic Comedians — Volume 2
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Trevor Steven entreated them to delay their departure.
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And Jamie was no Seamus---he wouldn't be able to withstand the renewed offers, the guileful entreaties.
SCANDAL'S BRIDE
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At first she thought the hoarse plea had tumbled from her own lips, giving substance to her fears, but as Gerard's powerful hands used all the gentleness at their disposal to coax her knees apart, she realized the entreaty was his own, offered without a trace of apology.
Thief Of Hearts
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One can affect unawareness, feign indifference or summon up some other defense against such entreaties.
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They then repeated a short prayer in English, entreating the Virgin, their guardian angels, and their patron saints, to protect them during the night.
For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary
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Peace signs were flashed and heartfelt entreaties were ad-libbed.
Globe and Mail
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He fell, calling in piteous tones to a padre who was in the coach, entreating him to stop and confess him, and groaning out a farewell to his friend the driver.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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She was an obstinate young person -- she was precise, she was scrupulous, she was of a secretive, untrustful turn of mind; and as she was ambitious for advancement from the dreary isolation of Point-o'-Bay Cove, she was not to be entrapped or entreated into what she had determined was a breach of discipline.
Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
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‘Why,’ she entreated after a moment, ‘does one so knowledgeable seek books on such evil?’
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In early October Polk returned to Nashville and spent a week seeking to solidify his standing among state Democrats through cajolery, entreaty, and old-fashioned political horse-trading.
A Country of Vast Designs
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Mary was the following: -- The prior of a convent in Paris had reiteratedly entreated Varillas the historian to examine a work composed by one of the monks; and of which -- not being himself addicted to letters -- he wished to be governed by his opinion.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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He often sojourns there and woos the ‘niece’ of the abbess whom he entreats to come live with him and be his love.
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More importantly, the Asian financial crisis sent property prices into a tailspin, and the government has largely resisted entreaties to bail people out.
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This position is compatible with holding that in special cases linguistic communities have instituted conventions for particular speech acts such as entreating and excommunicating.
Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
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Solely supported by his unimpugnable calculations, Mr Pancks led an unhappy and restless life; constantly carrying his figures about with him in his hat, and not only going over them himself on every possible occasion, but entreating every human being he could lay hold of to go over them with him, and observe what a clear case it was.
Little Dorrit
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The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval, entreating me to join him.
Chapter 3
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Haply some one was jealous of thy good fortune and threw out certain hints concerning thee to the King, by reason whereof he is become enraged against thee with rage so violent: but be of good cheer; no harm shall befal thee; for, even as thou entreatedst me generously, without acquaintanceship between me and thee, so now I will deliver thee.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then he embraced them both and entreated them lovingly, saying to them, “I thought not that ye would have left me desolate by your absence nor that ye would have forborne to come and visit me and your mother.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then he gave orders to sweep a bench behind the door and, spreading on it a sitting-rug and a leather-cloth, seated Nur al-Din thereon and loosed his shackles and entreated him kindly.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Now he was disconsolate by reason of what had befallen him through the Sultan, who had entreated him harshly and had married his daughter by force to the lowest of his menials and he too a lump of a groom bunch-backed withal, and he said to himself, “I will slay this daughter of mine if of her own free will she have yielded her person to this acursed carle.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the midst of it all, my father would be entreating everyone to leave him be.
Letting Go of My Father
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Now, I entreat you to begin your own personal journey into this Historical Occasion.
How To Find Yourself (or a reasonable facsimile)
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He was moved to humbly entreat her hand for the next dance.
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Entreat them to go there with a belief in the good disposition of nations to one another, such as animates you, the members of a score of parliaments, and may it be your great reward, when you next assemble a year hence, to know that as a result of your labors the light of peace burns with a steadier and a more radiant flame.
II. His "The Duma Is Dead: Long Live the Duma," Speech
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In it my brother set forth that he had pledged his word solemnly and beyond recall to Ann and her parents, and entreated my lover to declare to the Tetzels and to his grand-uncle that henceforth and forever he renounced Ursula.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
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She only smiled in scorn, and those who stood by wept to see one so young and so beautiful persisting in what they termed obstinacy and rashness, and entreated her to yield; but she refused, and by her eloquent appeal so touched their hearts that forty persons declared themselves Christians, and ready to die with her.
Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians
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Please, please don't, dear cuckoo, she exclaimed, dancing about with her hands clasped in entreaty, but her eyes still firmly closed.
The Cuckoo Clock
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It came to her that she was behaving like Anna, invoking her missing son, entreating the dead Johannes to speak.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Very well, sir," and without opposition or entreaty, he turned to resaddle the mare.
Under Two Flags
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Such fancies I must entreat you never to admit, at least never to indulge: for my regard for you is so radicated and fixed, that it is become part of my mind, and cannot be effaced but by some cause uncommonly violent; therefore, whether I write or not, set your thoughts at rest.
Life Of Johnson
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Do not therefore, I again entreat you, my dear friend, be uneasy.
The Old Manor House
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These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with evil in case he do otherwise.
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He never was unprovided with snuff and flattery, both which he dealt liberally among them, listened patiently to their old stories, and told them others of the King of France, and King James, by which they were quite captivated, and concluded by entreating that they impress their children with attachment and duty to their chief, and they would not fail to come to his funeral and assist in the coranach _keir_.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
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[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.
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He revived but in part, and knowing that his moments were fast passing, he called the incensed captain, and before he had time to speak or strike, poured upon him such a flood of sublime and holy rebuke, rising to the grandeur of prophetic denunciation, and mingled with such melting pathos of entreaty, that the crime-steeped man was overwhelmed and fled from the scene.
The Martyrs, and the Fugitive; or a Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Death of an African Family, and the Slavery and Escape of Their Son
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‘Trust me,’ he entreats, ‘I'm a professional eye-reader.’
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He shewed a little emotion, but very little, and was only earnest in entreating that I would leave off making such bitter speeches to him, which I promised to do, and
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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What is important is that we hold a conscious intention for the wellbeing of another, whether it's an entreaty to God or a loving feeling.
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I left my assailant slumped against the wall, gesturing uselessly at my disappearing back, entreating me not to go.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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The word "beseech" means "to call alongside to exhort, to earnestly entreat.
Grace and Truth to You
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As in time it did not die away, but began to get a little more heated (one voice appearing to be raised in entreaty and the other, Elizabeth's, in protest), I thought I had better saunter out and interrupt the causerie.
Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
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The East countrie, whereof wee haue entreated, which is called
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
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The singing of psalms, provision of a confessor, entreaties for repentance, and the Eucharistic offering followed age-old traditions for those close to death, natural and otherwise.
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The parliamentary party left the session in high spirits, with their leader's entreaties ringing in their ears.
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It was no time for farther assurances or entreaty, though to part with her at a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity.
Mansfield Park
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And everywhere, like clouds heavy with whispered entreaties, prayers float over the craggy hills and valleys of Jerusalem.
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He was still saying it, over and over, — demanding, entreating, threatening, to know if it wanted any more, — when he felt the fellows of his gang laying hands on him, patting him on the back and trying to put his coat on him.
Chapter 15
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‘Were it not an intrusion, sire, I would fain entreat a moment's audience. '
Chapter 1 - Part VIII
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She wrote to him, and in the tenderest terms entreated he would reconcile himself to) Tj
Simple Facts; or, the History of an Orphan
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Unmoved by a chorus of anguished cries, the Biltmore crew calmly rounded up the glasses, tallied the tabs and shrugged off entreaties for special dispensation.
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Rational Review
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Obeying this impulse, and also a look of entreaty from the Curé, she affixed her own signature as witness to the document, and this despite the fact that both the Marquise and her son threw her a look of hate which might have made a weaker spirit tremble with foreboding.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
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It's also so jam-packed with pop culture references and media lampoons that it runs the risk of insulting or isolating the very audience it is trying to entreat.
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It contained delicious sangaree, and I bowed to it without being entreated to do so a second time.
A Sailor of King George
