suppliant

How To Use suppliant In A Sentence

• At her footstool are her suppliants, the men and women and little children of the city she has saved. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts
• The Logos is an ambassador and suppliant, neither unbegotten nor begotten as are sensible things.
• He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village. Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
• Exhausted, he dragged himself back to the temple in the morning, trying to summon the right words for the next suppliant.
• He showed the letter to the Ephors, who were now more inclined to believe, but still they wanted to hear something from Pausanias 'own mouth, and so, according to a plan preconcerted with them, the man went to Taenarus as a suppliant and there put up a hut divided by a partition. The History of the Peloponnesian War
• Moreover, it also implied that Roman territory, whether administered by the army or by suppliant British rulers, was firmly in Aulus Plautius' hands.
• Almost certainly slightly distasteful in its depiction of women as cruel and cold and yet somehow entirely focused on the formal humiliation of the suppliant male. Venus in Fur
• The text refers to the humble suppliant as Jehu, son of Omri (a name by which all Israelite kings were identified, whether of the Omride dynasty or not) and describes the gifts he brought.
• The kin of the riteless dead came to me suppliant, with ashes on their heads. The Bull From The Sea
• But I, from regard to my former husband, am throwing myself down in suppliant wise before this tomb of Proteus, praying him to guard my husband's honour, that, though through Hellas I bear a name dishonoured, at least my body here may not incur disgrace. Helen