"Entreatingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and steady. To her sister it already had an air of triumph, and caused her to look up wonderingly into the face so full of trust and holy purpose. The clear, bright eyes met her tearful gaze; there was a pressure of the hand as entreatingly she said, "Sing, Ruth; the Lord is our ...
— 'Our guy' - or, The elder brother • Mrs. E. E. Boyd
... entreatingly, "do not let us part in anger. It pains me to see you suffer, and I am sorry if I have said anything unkind to you. Give me your hand in good fellowship, ...
— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet
... cried Helen, clasping her hands entreatingly, "I would rather die than live in such strife and shame. It makes me wicked and passionate. I cannot help feeling hatred rising in my bosom, and then I loathe myself in dust and ashes. Oh! let me go somewhere, where I may be at peace—anywhere in the world where I shall ...
— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz
... knocked his chair over backwards, and then fell over it himself in his haste to get away. Pussy was about to follow the others; but her uncle, seeing the movement, put his arms about her, and held her fast. She struggled, however, and said, entreatingly,— ...
— Rico And Wiseli - Rico And Stineli, And How Wiseli Was Provided For • Johanna Spyri
... 9.30 P.M., by uproar in adjacent hut: one husband had returned in a bellicose condition and whacked his wives, and their squarks and squalls, instead of acting as a warning to the other ladies, stimulate the silly things to go on coo-ooing louder and more entreatingly than ever, so that their husbands might come home and whack them too, I suppose, and whenever the unmitigated hardness of my plank rouses me ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley
... a glance from her mother, and was gone already to try what Claudine's resources could produce. Mrs. Costello leaned forward, and laid her hand entreatingly on Maurice's arm, ...
— A Canadian Heroine - A Novel, Volume 3 (of 3) • Mrs. Harry Coghill
... Pynson!" said Margery, entreatingly, "I pray you that you ask good Master Carew to lend me that book! Tell him that Mistress Margery Lovell will lay her best jewels to pledge that she returneth the book safe. I must see ...
— Mistress Margery • Emily Sarah Holt
... I didn't mean any harm," he said, entreatingly, feeling as if a weight had been taken off his heart—"only please don't ...
— The Pilot and his Wife • Jonas Lie
... Frolic, lest he should bark; but Lucy answered, "O, let us take the poor little thing; it loves music better than any thing. I sometimes think it will sing itself, some day, instead of barking, and be one of your best scholars;" and the dog looked so entreatingly at Edgar, that ...
— The Magician's Show Box and Other Stories • Lydia Maria Child
... that she had to swallow a few mouthfuls. But Yan Yang and her companions next appeared, likewise, on the scene to hand her their share of wine; but lady Feng felt, in fact, so little able to comply with their wishes, that she promptly appealed to them entreatingly. "Dear sisters," she pleaded, "do spare me! I'll drink some ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... the baron, entreatingly, supporting his head against his wife's shoulder. M. von Schladen opened the letter, and laid General Bluecher's note, enclosed in it, on the table and ...
— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach
... dear Poopy," said Alice, entreatingly; "you'll only hurt yourself and tear your frock. I feel sure that some one will be sent to ...
— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne
... said he entreatingly, "my lord, you expose your life by this imprudence! The least violent movement may renew the hemorrhage from ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue
... repeated the princess at the same moment, and aware that her intercession was required, though unable to comprehend the wherefore, she clasped her little hands entreatingly; "grant poor Marie what she wishes! You have told me a Queen's first duty is to be kind and good; and do all in her power to make others happy. Make her happy, dear Mamma, she has ...
— The Vale of Cedars • Grace Aguilar
... my loved one," she said, entreatingly. "Let a few days pass. You don't want me to feel bad, do ...
— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan
... the spell which held her chained to the ill-omened spot, and she turned to fly, only to find herself on his breast and his dear voice sounding entreatingly ...
— A Coin of Edward VII - A Detective Story • Fergus Hume
... sharp cry in Bates’ voice, and he sprang forward with his hands outstretched entreatingly. But Larry did ...
— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson
... gone home, but I myself sniff the asphalt afar; the roar of the street calls to me with the magic that the voice of the sea is losing. Just now it shines entreatingly, it shines winningly, in the sun which is mellowing to an October tenderness, and it shines under a moon of perfect orb, which seems to have the whole heavens to itself in "the first watch of the night," except for "the red planet Mars." This begins to burn in the west before ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... judgment," he retorted. "It is the day on which life confronts us with our own actions, and we must justify them or own ourselves deluded." He went up to her and caught her hands entreatingly. "Fulvia," he said, "I too have doubted, wavered—and if you will give me one honest reason that is worthy of ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... exclaimed, half-crying and almost breathless with excitement as she clung to his arm and looked up into his face entreatingly. ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... I—I can't say much—I can't talk when I feel most—but don't you know how I feel? About my teasing you whenever I had the chance and—and lots of things? I'll take the bugle if—if 'you'll call the slate washed clean,' as Dolly says, and we can begin all over again?" She held out her hand, entreatingly, and the shy lad took it for a moment, then dropped it as if its touch had burned. A sudden wave of his old bashfulness had swept over him, for though he had gained much self-confidence during those weeks in camp it would be a long time before he conquered the timidity ...
— Dorothy's Travels • Evelyn Raymond
... watched for any signs of hope in their world-disgusted eyes, dipped their unwilling beaks in food, put chips upon their backs to help them maintain an earthly equilibrium—so little desired by them, however, that oftener they have toppled over and turned their infantile legs entreatingly upward; but I ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... short. She managed, however, by frequent excuses, to get along without holding any conversation with him until the latter part of the afternoon, when, the wire not being in use, and business slacking up, he called persistently, savagely, and entreatingly—all of which phases can be expressed in dots and dashes—interspersing the call ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... said entreatingly. "It's very silly of me, I know. Go on with your work, and don't bother about me. Do—or I shall be ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski
... in Nell back to a day on which he had met Nell with Radford Chase. This indefatigable wooer had not in the least abandoned his suit. Something about the fellow made Belding grind his teeth. But Nell grew not only solicitously, but now strangely, entreatingly earnest in her importunities to Belding not to insult or lay a hand on Chase. This had bound Belding so far; it had made him think and watch. He had never been a man to interfere with his women folk. They could do as they liked, ...
— Desert Gold • Zane Grey
... her eyes and were trembling on her lashes. She clasped her hands entreatingly as the superintendent rudely turned ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... entreatingly to her lover Until the evening breeze blows, And the shadows disappear (at sunset), Turn, my beloved! Be thou as a young hart ...
— The Book of Delight and Other Papers • Israel Abrahams
... so, Mr. Kent," said Mrs. Moore, entreatingly, "for I can't quarrel with you in my own house, and I feel very much inclined to do ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... do not speak as if that should exclude peace or hope!" said Dr. May entreatingly. "Besides, it was no ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... quarter-master's stables and corrals were placed. He was affected by a strange unrest. His talk with Rollins had roused the memories of years long gone by,—of days when he, too, was young and full of hope and faith, ay, full of love,—all lavished on one fair girl who knew it well, but gently, almost entreatingly, repelled him. Her heart was wrapped up in another, the Adonis of his day in the gay old seaboard garrison. She was a soldier's child, barrack-born, simply taught, knowing little of the vice and temptations, the follies and the frauds, of the whirling life of civilization. ...
— From the Ranks • Charles King
... girl, with a joyous shout, clapping her chubby hands, "pretty baby Elsie take"; and the small arms were held out entreatingly. ...
— Elsie's Womanhood • Martha Finley
... likely to," she answered, and her arms dropped limply to her sides, her eyes looked entreatingly up ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
... had reached the point where the two figures, springing suddenly from the darkness behind him, had hurled him over the parapet into the deepest part of the lagoon, a low moan burst from her lips, and she put out her hands entreatingly. ...
— Against Odds - A Detective Story • Lawrence L. Lynch
... her way and delayed her entreatingly, saying, "Do not scorn me because I am what ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... yours it would be different: that would be a reason for treating me as if you hated me. But I ask such a little thing. If you will tell me where you are going on the wedding-day I will take care that the diamonds shall be delivered to her without scandal. Without scandal," she repeated entreatingly. ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... yellow papers began to tremble in Meir's hands; upon his pale face appeared two red burning spots. He looked half angrily, half entreatingly at the public. ...
— An Obscure Apostle - A Dramatic Story • Eliza Orzeszko
... hairy hand so muscular and so feeble. The fingers closed upon it and with difficulty carried it to the man's bosom. For a moment the eyes remained closed as if in peace, but only for a moment. Once more they rested entreatingly ...
— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor
... towards gradually preparing her mind for the worst, in regard to her husband, he now resolved to do so, with the further object of getting her version of Fluella's absence at such a juncture. Accordingly, he called at the house; and, seeing the afflicted woman's entreatingly expectant looks, he at once entered on his painful task by hinting his fears for the fate of her husband; when, somewhat to his surprise, she cut him short by ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson
... me, sa uishe, what it is that your ear has heard, your eye has seen, that makes your heart so sad." The woman spoke softly, entreatingly, as if she was soothing a sick child. But the object of her sympathy sighed, and continued, in the same tone ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... over her shoulder, was the only one who saw him, and she shuddered in spite of herself. Then, seeing that he looked at her entreatingly, as if he wanted to explain that he was doing the best he could, she smiled upon him sunnily, and began ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... say something here in defense of my motives. The Major clasped his hands entreatingly, and looked at me with a pleading simplicity ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... for pity's sake," he added entreatingly, for he thought that she meant to turn away from him; "surely you will not begrudge me a few words of kindness. I have gone through a great ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... came the second time, Maggie said to him, "O father, Philip Wakem is so very good to Tom; he is such a clever boy, and I do love him.—And you love him too, Tom, don't you? Say you love him," she added entreatingly. ...
— Tom and Maggie Tulliver • Anonymous
... to the twelfth he paused, but his curiosity was too much for him, and in another instant the key was turned and the cellar lay open before him. It was empty, save for a large cask, bound with iron hoops, and out of the cask a voice was saying entreatingly, 'For goodness' sake, brother, fetch me some water; I ...
— The Violet Fairy Book • Various
... Take my advice, sir, and have soup twice, sir. As it was carried along the main-deck, I'm dishonest, if the young gentlemen didn't follow it, with the water running down in streams from the corners of their mouths, and their tongues entreatingly lolling out, like a parcel of hungry dogs in Cripplegate, following the catsmeat-man's barrow. One more rasp over your upper lip, and you are as smooth as the new-born babe—talking of lips, as the first spoonful of that turtle-soup glides over them—the devil! I'll take God to ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard
... great warriors to feast with him, and Red Robe seldom entered his lodge. He used to dress as well as he could, to braid his hair carefully, to paint his face nicely, and to stand for a long time near the lodge looking entreatingly at her as she came and went about her work, or fleshed a robe under the shelter of some travois over which a hide was spread. Then whenever they met, he thought the look she gave him in passing was ...
— Blackfeet Indian Stories • George Bird Grinnell
... she said. "It's no good. I have said nothing, and—and I'll try to forget—you know what. I don't want there to be any more trouble. It doesn't matter for me. O Rosy dear," she went on entreatingly, "don't say anything more that might make more trouble, and vex your mamma with you, just as your ...
— Rosy • Mrs. Molesworth
... the remembrance of Marylyn's midnight confidence. It was a blow on a wound. She glanced at her sister entreatingly. And what she fancied she read in the other's eyes instantly altered the desire to turn—made her send the mules forward at a better pace. Marylyn was sitting stiffly upright, bracing herself with her hands. Her head was up, her look was eager ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... if his eyes upon her hurt her, and raised her arm before her face. In an instant she lowered it and said entreatingly: ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... sent that note had seen mine, I am certain, and of course would use wax, as I did. Now, won't you do this little service for me, Mary?" urged Marian, entreatingly. ...
— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry
... just see her,' said Mrs Prothero entreatingly not daring to contradict the heiress of Glanyravon Park, who had a will of her own, ...
— Gladys, the Reaper • Anne Beale
... tea-cup down upon the table. "If you'll only think for a minute, Miss Brooke," he said, entreatingly, with such a sudden softening of voice and manner that Lesley sat amazed, "I cannot believe but that you'll pardon me. I owe so much to your father—he has been a guide, a helper, almost a prophet to me, ever since I came across him when I was a medical student at King's ...
— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... can't!" cried Mrs. Friend in distress. "You can't treat your guardian like that! Do tell me what it's all about!" And bending forward, she laid her two small hands entreatingly on the girl's knee. She looked so frail and pitiful as she did so, in her plain black, that Helena was momentarily touched. For the first time her new chaperon appeared to her as something else than a mere receiver into which, ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... think we had better see some one—or know some one that we could go to in need. We are so far from any one we know, or help of any kind." She seemed to be trying to account to herself, rather than to Ferris, for what she was doing. "We mustn't let anything pass unnoticed".... She looked at him entreatingly, but a shadow, as of some wounding memory, passed over her face, ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells
... in whispered words my heart pleaded, oh, so earnestly, for forgiveness. But, when I looked entreatingly toward her, in her delirious gaze there was no recognition. No, Bessie, I was never to be comforted by ...
— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various
... a certain fright in her tone. "Please!" she said, "I see Mr. Northcote coming this way. He will stop to speak to me. It is the gentleman who attacked you in the Meeting. Mr. May," she added entreatingly, between laughter and ...
— Phoebe, Junior • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... now that the swamp was a deterrent to pursuit. The two beasts that had fallen in the mire moaned in a pitiful rising note. They had ceased to struggle and several of their kind clustered on the shore near them, calling entreatingly. Asaki took careful aim with the needler and put one animal after another out of its misery. But the flash of those shots angered those on shore to a higher pitch ...
— Voodoo Planet • Andrew North
... most scrupulous politeness; trying, and trying vainly, to conceal some strong agitation which was in possession of him. His wild brown eyes—wilder than ever in the moonlight—rested entreatingly, with a strange underlying expression of despair, on Naomi's face. His hands, clasped lightly in front of him, trembled incessantly. Little as I liked the man, he did really impress me as a pitiable ...
— The Dead Alive • Wilkie Collins
... he, entreatingly, "do not go. Say first that you pardon me, that you are no longer angry. Oh, Wilhelmina, you do not know what I suffer; you can never know the ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... readiness and ingenuity of the girl, and prepared to execute her requests. At the door, however, she stopped, and looked back entreatingly at the Indian woman. "Is there no hope of your telling me more, ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... some green-eyed frog or other equally unpleasant treasure. Her big brother had, however, a great fascination for the child, who followed him everywhere like his shadow. She now came nearer to Elsli, and said, entreatingly:— ...
— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri
... Cecil, and other ladies of the time were mentioned, and then came the counting up of their eight living representatives,—the two Misses Faulkner, Caroline, yes, and Clara herself, who started and danced with ecstasy, then glanced entreatingly at her mother, who looked doubtful; Marian, two cousins of the Faulkners, who were always ready for anything, and a Miss Mordaunt, were reckoned up, and their dresses quickly discussed; but all the time Marian said not a word. She was thinking ...
— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... could get me a copy of that picture, Philip," Laura said, entreatingly. "I should so like one to hang in my morning-room at Jocelyn's Rock. I wonder ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... men caught her as she was trying to rush toward the door, holding out her arms entreatingly. The boys understood when they ...
— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton
... just a little longer—there is no danger yet. Take Chloe down, if you will, Mr. Desborough, and have a place ready for me. I 'll go down when the battle begins—indeed I will, father!" she continued entreatingly. ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... and pointed to the picture. Then once again, more melancholy, more mournfully, more entreatingly upon the distracted ears of Bolko came—the repeated cry ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various
... sought for him high and low, called him by name, coaxingly, entreatingly; but all in vain. Then she sat down in her great armchair by her own fireside, and began to weep ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various
... were raised entreatingly to his, and an expression of the keenest anguish rested on ...
— Inez - A Tale of the Alamo • Augusta J. Evans
... her bright eyes to those of the old soldier, that gleamed questioningly, almost entreatingly, under the ...
— A Venetian June • Anna Fuller |
