How To Use Suppliant In A Sentence
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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
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The Logos is an ambassador and suppliant, neither unbegotten nor begotten as are sensible things.
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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
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Exhausted, he dragged himself back to the temple in the morning, trying to summon the right words for the next suppliant.
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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
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Moreover, it also implied that Roman territory, whether administered by the army or by suppliant British rulers, was firmly in Aulus Plautius' hands.
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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
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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.
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The kin of the riteless dead came to me suppliant, with ashes on their heads.
The Bull From The Sea
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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
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To make the man a suppliant is the delight of her soul.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
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Without such living arrangements it would not have been possible for thousands of Messenians to hold out as suppliants in the sanctuary of Zeus on Ithome in the 460s BC until they finally obtained safe conduct to their new home at Naupactus.
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(among the Indians a coward is often called a badger) he hissed; and he struck the suppliant down before him.
"The Fading of Shadow Flower"
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There is little sign of satisfaction among the crowd of suppliants, relegated after the audience to the external space beyond the parapet on the right.
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Unable to pay their fines despite their great wealth, they were presumably stripped of their ordinary legal protections as citizens, but as suppliants in a temple they were under the protection of the gods.
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The stench of blood would have wafted down from the great religious sanctuaries - at Delphi, spiritual heart of the Greek world, each suppliant was required to sacrifice a goat.
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Pelagius," said Totila, with an insulting smile, "your pride now condescends to become a suppliant.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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Bauman, a disappointed suppliant, pretended ease in an oak armchair facing Tomlinson's desk.
STONE CITY
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He flung himself to his knees, bowed his head, and stretched out his arms like a suppliant.
A TIME OF WAR
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Besides the many pictorial representations of kneeling prisoners, and the like, left us by ancient art, Gen., xli, 43 and Esth., iii, 2 may be quoted to show how universally in the East kneeling was accepted as the proper attitude of suppliants and dependents.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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The suitors, for good measure, also violate the code associated with feasting in other ways - by mistreating the servants in Odysseus's palace, and by their churlish treatment of Odysseus in disguise as a suppliant beggar.
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He had approached the catasta and now stood timid, and a suppliant, beside Dea Flavia, with his curly head bare to the scorching sun and his back bent in slave-like deference.
"Unto Caesar"
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On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.
Chapter XX
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a suppliant for her favors
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The judges are supposed to be separate, not suppliants to Executive Government.
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He flung himself to his knees, bowed his head, and stretched out his arms like a suppliant.
A TIME OF WAR
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The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up.
The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death
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A glass of orangeade was brought to thesuppliant Empress; she looked at the glass queerly.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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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
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Bauman, a disappointed suppliant, pretended ease in an oak armchair facing Tomlinson's desk.
STONE CITY
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a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
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Bauman, a disappointed suppliant, pretended ease in an oak armchair facing Tomlinson's desk.
STONE CITY
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Often they resorted to psychological trickery such as planting a seeming dumb boy to come as a suppliant to the temple and then to recover his voice.
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Inside the temple is a well that is believed to have the power to bring good luck and prosperity to suppliants.
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When waves of despair which no language can express sweep over the suppliant, how few cling with unyielding faith to the promises of God.
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[Page 27] hair which trails on the floor as she kneels, her wan, brown, pathetic face raised suppliantly in devotion, is one of the prettiest, though most common, sights in Mexico on Sunday morning.
Six Months in Mexico
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Sadness converges into "Sweet," and the plaintive note of longing in the voice of the suppliant is inseparable from the persistent imperative in the reiterated "Be thou.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
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Upon the stone was an engraving of an altar, upon which a sacrificial fire was burning, and before it a suppliant family bowed the knee; over this was thrown a white vestment archwise in the form of a rainbow.
Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
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And now, and for the first time, he was a suppliant, tender and timid and doubting.
Chapter 20
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The suppliants, as we shall see later on, drew their own conclusions and acted accordingly.
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Alcinous," said he, "it is not creditable to you that a stranger should be seen sitting among the ashes of your hearth; every one is waiting to hear what you are about to say; tell him, then, to rise and take a seat on a stool inlaid with silver, and bid your servants mix some wine and water that we may make a drink offering to Jove the lord of thunder, who takes all well disposed suppliants under his protection; and let the housekeeper give him some supper, of whatever there may be in the house.
The Odyssey
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He said he hoped that the young candidate, if elected, would treat the liquor men fairly, to which the "suppliant" replied that he intended to treat all interests fairly.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
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He is compelled to behave as a suppliant49 in the courts of justice, and when some juryman comes into court, to grasp his hand.
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
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To lead the flight two aged guides are we; my care is centred on these boys, while she, I mean Alcmena, clasps her son's daughter in her arms, and bears her for safety within this shrine, for we shrink from letting tender maidens come anigh the crowd or stand as suppliants at the altar.
The Heracleidae
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But he her suppliant hands, those _hands of gold_,
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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The presence of noble British exiles at Rome as suppliants to the emperor will have reinforced Roman attitudes.
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You see where my pride is gone; remember I plead as a suppliant, a beggar — though one who may be one day a prince, a king! ay, and a prince now, a very Lucifer of pride to all except to you; to you a wretch who grovels at your feet, and cries, ‘Have mercy on me, on my loneliness, my homelessness, my friendlessness.’
Westward Ho!
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In they came, their eyes bedimmed with tears, and took their seats in all humility near the chair of the lady whom Paris the archer once wedded, one on this side, one on that, to right and left, with weapons on them; and both threw their suppliant arms round the knees of
Orestes
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Officials, most of whom are poorly paid, control access to things as lucrative as a large construction contract or as modest as a permit to reside in a neighborhood, all of which can cost the suppliant special fees.