"Pleadingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... angry, please don't be angry to-day! Not on such a day as this!" he urged. "To-morrow you may scold me if you like; but to-day, no, please, no!" and he looked at her so pleadingly that Helene was forced to smile. "I wish nothing to happen that shall interfere with the happiness that has come ...
— The Music Master - Novelized from the Play • Charles Klein
... pleadingly. "You don't understand. I am not going to slave. I'm just going to be a sort of mother to them. And you oughtn't to call them snobs. They ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... Ain't they fer little girls?" asked the only little girl in the group. And a very small girl she was, with a softly gentle voice and darkly gentle eyes fixed pleadingly now upon ...
— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various
... have brought me here?" asked Jim, swallowing the lump in his throat, and looking pleadingly up to the cruel stranger. "What do you ...
— Brave Tom - The Battle That Won • Edward S. Ellis
... Harwood pleadingly, "upon this my wedding day cast aside your bitterness of spirit for ever, and become ...
— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur
... in with him for gold," said another voice, pleadingly. "But when it come to makin' trouble for you ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore
... very sorry, and she is to accept my dear love. Will you, Dick?" and Nellie looked pleadingly up ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... Roxmouth who had played the spy and eavesdropper! He recalled every little detail of the scene in the picture-gallery and at once realised how much a treacherous as well as jealous and vindictive man could make of it. Maryllia's hand laid so coaxingly on his arm,—Maryllia's face so sweetly and pleadingly upturned,—Maryllia's half-tender tremulous voice with its 'Will you forgive me?'—and then—his own impetuous words!—the way he had caught her hand and kissed it!—why his very look must have betrayed him to the 'noble and honourable' detective, part of ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... forget me, darling?" he said, pleadingly. "You will write to me, and you will let me sometimes see you?" She promised faithfully. She wept over leaving him, yet in some unaccountable way her spirits rose when she came away; she felt more free, more at ease than she had done ...
— Marion Arleigh's Penance - Everyday Life Library No. 5 • Charlotte M. Braeme
... outlines would not have been obscured by foliage. Mavis sighed, turned her back on the window and walked towards the fireplace; something moving in the cool, carefully shaded room caught her eye. It was the propitiatory wagging of a black, cocker spaniel's tail, while its eyes were looking pleadingly up to her. Mavis loved all animals; in a moment the spaniel was in her lap, her arms were about its neck, and she was pressing her soft, red lips to its head. The dog received these demonstrations of affection with delight; although it pawed ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... like home, dear father, when you are far absent," she said to him, pleadingly, a few days before the appointed time for departure had come. "Do ...
— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur
... look of alarm Mrs. Lambert started to follow her daughter. "Don't be harsh, Joe." Then to Clarke she said, pleadingly: "It's best, Anthony, for a little while. Viola is ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... forgotten about Howard's presence on the divan behind the screen. A listener might have detected the heavy breathing of the sleeper, but even Alicia herself was too preoccupied to notice it. Underwood extended his arms pleadingly: ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... the rim of his glass. Oliver started to speak but Mr. Piper put up his hand. "No—please—it will be so much easier if I finish what I have to say first," he said rather pleadingly. ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... pleadingly on his arm, and he released her. "I will tell you," she said tremulously, keeping her face upturned to his. "At least, I will try. But ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... she told herself, meaning Captain Winstanley; "but I will begin a career of Christianlike hypocrisy, and try to make other people believe that I like him. No, Argus," as the big paw tugged her arm pleadingly, "no; now really this is sheer greediness. You can't ...
— Vixen, Volume II. • M. E. Braddon
... pleadingly, "if you mean all that you been sayin' about wantin' to help me, you'll do somethin' fer me ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... of melancholy things on purpose, Fani, and I wish I did not at all," said Elsli, pleadingly. "It is this way. Whenever I begin to think of something very pleasant, then sad thoughts come into my mind, and I keep wondering whether there isn't something that I can do for those in trouble, and then I am unhappy because I can't think of anything. I see ...
— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri
... his look hurt her. She freed one hand and laid it pleadingly, caressingly, against his neck. "Oh, Dicky," ...
— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell
... too hardly of me!" she said, pleadingly,—"I've told you frankly just how I feel,—and you can imagine how glad I shall be when this yachting trip ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... a half-smile; the great dark eyes sought his in the calling glance which seeks its companion; and in the face and voice there was something tremulous, vibrant and pleadingly anxious. Yet she did and said only commonplaces. She gave him her hand, and threw over the lap-robe as an invitation for him to take ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick
... Encouraged by her companions Susan soon became as rude, as careless, and as troublesome as they were. If Monsieur had had any hope that she would prove a better pupil than the rest he was sadly mistaken. "Soyez sage, Mademoiselle," he said to her pleadingly, but it was of no use. Susan had forgotten for the time how to behave wisely. And it was the same on every occasion: the French lesson was always a scene of impertinence and ill-behaviour. There were moments when ...
— Susan - A Story for Children • Amy Walton
... admitted that he longed for it, then almost believed that he was going lo do it. Whenever common sense snorted, "Nonsense! Folks don't run away from decent families and partners; just simply don't do it, that's all!" then Babbitt answered pleadingly, "Well, it wouldn't take any more nerve than for Paul to go to jail and—Lord, how I'd' like to do it! Moccasins-six-gun-frontier town-gamblers—sleep under the stars—be a regular man, with he-men like ...
— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis
... bench. She left it. She forgot it. Ain't it mine now?" pleadingly. "I waited, honest, ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott
... pleadingly, "if I may see him just once again! If I just don't have to lose him all at once!" She ran then across the room to another window, through which she whistled shrilly at the negro man dozing in the succulent grass in ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... said, pleadingly, holding the chicken protectingly. "Let's keep her until morning, and may be we will ha' an ...
— A Minstrel In France • Harry Lauder
... almost pleadingly, "don't tell me that you can see into people's pockets and all that ...
— The Red House Mystery • A. A. Milne
... put up last summer. I thought [very tenderly] you might like a piece of that bacon you liked so once, dear. Ah, sweetheart, shall we ever sit down to our little board? Shall we ever see the end of this awful war? Don't you think, dear [very pleadingly], it would be best to give it up? King George is not such a very bad man, is he? I've thought, sweetheart [very confidently], that mayhap you and he might make it all up without the aid of those Washingtons, who do nothing but starve one to death. And if ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... in a vice-like grasp, and looked pleadingly into her astonished countenance. A mist gathered before her, and she ...
— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... she continued pleadingly, "don't you see that we are growing apart? That's the only reason I said what I did. It isn't that I don't trust you, that I don't want you to have your work, that I demand all of you. I know a woman can't ask that,—can't have it. But if you would ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... seemed rich with mystic presage. Pleadingly my hands went out to her, and trustfully she put hers into them. Slowly I backed between the two big trees, our eyes held as two charmed beings. Everything about me called to her, everything in her urged compliance; and I knew, as did she, that ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... chair close to the long table upon which the still, white form was stretched, seated herself, and looked steadfastly at the uncovered face. Brian started at the sight of his mother; he glanced at her pleadingly, as if he would have spoken; but the rigidity of her face repelled him. He hung his head and turned a little from her, as though to ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... heart, Jean," he said almost pleadingly, "but you don't want people in our set to know you've been hobnobbing with this ...
— The Angel of Terror • Edgar Wallace
... others also, cursed heaven with the foulest blasphemies, afterwards, suddenly, to bow their heads, crossing their hands over their breasts, and suppliantly promising masses, candles, offerings, to the Virgin of Rosario and the Holy Christ of the Grao, addressing those miraculous beings pleadingly, intimately, as though the divinities were present in the flesh there before them. Dolores finally drew her shawl about her and crouched for shelter behind the outermost rock, the wash from the surf ...
— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Montmartre, La Villette, and Belleville poured into the streets. Crowds of lookers-on surrounded the soldiers who were mounting guard by the recaptured pieces, the women and children asking them pleadingly if they would have the heart to fire ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... but she stood there rigid and immovable, her countenance giving fearful token of the terrible storm within. She was battling fiercely with her fate, and until twice repeated, she did not hear the childish voice which said to her pleadingly, "Don't look so, sister. You frighten me, and there may be some ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes
... this religious merit." Pratap smiled pleadingly as he held out a bundle of rupee notes and two tickets, just ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... the slope they stopped to give the horses a breathing spell. In his cowhide prison Muskwa whimpered pleadingly. Langdon heard, but he seemed to pay no attention. He was looking steadily back into the valley. It was glorious in the morning sun. He could see the peaks under which lay the cool, dark lake in which Thor had fished; ...
— The Grizzly King • James Oliver Curwood
... no recollection of what I said as I stalked out of the room. He called out after me, somewhat pleadingly, I thought: ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... and Storri moistened his dry lips. His San Reve was such a heathen! The thought parched him. "Whom would you kill, my San Reve?" This came off pleadingly. ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... of Uncle Bash's ghost in the familiar dining-room would have been a welcome diversion. I was speculating as to just what he would say about his widow and the whole mess at Barton when Mrs. Farnsworth addressed me pleadingly. ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson
... hard, very humiliating for a proud, sensitive, affectionate boy like Max!" she exclaimed. "May we not be a little more lenient toward him?" and she looked up pleadingly into ...
— Elsie's New Relations • Martha Finley
... saw Hugh change color. "She may have old Harney. His man John told Claib how his a master said he meant to get me and Rocket, too, some day; me for her waiting maid, I reckon. You won't sell me, Master High, will you?" and Lulu's soft black eyes looked pleadingly up ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes
... the world to me, and you have been charming! But the world is big, and I am missing it. Let some one come tonight, some one interesting, but not too interesting. Pierce Tevis, for instance. He is just back from Paris. Tell the nurse I may see him for an hour tonight," Kitty finished pleadingly, and put her fingers on the doctor's sleeve. He looked down at them and ...
— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather
... to him, laid her hand on his arm and looked into his face pleadingly. "Dick," she said, "you're ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... Sometimes an infinite weariness oppressed her to the earth. A thought was born in her mind and it had no name. It was growing and could not be expressed. She had no words wherewith to meet it, to exorcise or greet this stranger who, more and more insistently and pleadingly, tapped upon her doors and begged to be spoken to, admitted and caressed and nourished. A thought is a real thing and words are only its raiment, but a thought is as shy as a virgin; unless it is fittingly apparelled we ...
— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens
... a pretty, gentle-faced spinster, could not hush her mother, whisper as pleadingly as she might into the sharp old ear in the bonnet-frills. The old woman was full of the desire for tea, and could scarcely be restrained from following up its ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... She put out her hands pleadingly—the childish hands that had seemed pathetically pretty to ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... me disturb you,' she said, pleadingly, as she, too, rose and approached me; 'I will be quiet, I ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson
... look so old to some of us as it does to Miss Kitty. He is in fine health, I doubt not, and magnificently preserved. Kitty's mother is not at all averse, as I gather, to this way of settling her child's difficulties. She rather pleadingly assures Kitty that Mr. Harshaw senior has solemnly sworn that this is no unpleasant duty he feels called on to perform; not only his honor, but his affections are profoundly enlisted in this proposal. Kitty has had for years a sacred place in ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... hungry," said Kate, almost pleadingly. "I don't think we can eat anything. And it's time we were on the trail. Please excuse us ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... should—have—to go back, because, after all, I'm only human! And I may have to go back yet—I may—" She stopped abruptly and threw back her head. With spirit she exclaimed: "No, I won't go back. I won't!" Then, her tone changing again, she said pleadingly: "But please don't talk about it any ...
— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow
... the trail we expect to follow, dad," Frank said, pleadingly; "and it seems to run pretty smooth, with only a few mountains to cross, and a couple of rivers to ford. If you don't object seriously, Bob and I would prefer to ...
— The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon - or The Hermit of the Cave • James Carson
... her voice, a pathetic catch in her breath, almost a sob, as she forced herself to speak these words; then bravely, pleadingly, she lifted her eyes to ...
— Possessed • Cleveland Moffett
... hard of me, Miss Bellwood," he said, pleadingly. "I would not harm you for anything. I love you far too ...
— Frank Merriwell Down South • Burt L. Standish
... pleadingly, "this poor girl is Bessie King. I loved her once. It's dead now, all the love I knew. She has been more weak than sinful. You have your boy safe in your arms. You'll take him back to Inza. You'll keep your promise to her. We were old comrades at college. I would have done anything ...
— Frank Merriwell's Son - A Chip Off the Old Block • Burt L. Standish
... thought of going into the house and into that dreaded schoolroom alone, she caught her uncle's hand and said pleadingly, "Won't you come ...
— Hunter's Marjory - A Story for Girls • Margaret Bruce Clarke
... 'Michael,' said Morris pleadingly, 'I am in a very weak state, and I beg your consideration for a kinsman. Say it slowly again, and be sure you are correct. When did ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... do it. I told him how it was, but he won't believe it. And why should he? I'm all right, am I not? I'm not crazy, or anything like that, am I?" and Tom looked at his brother pleadingly. "I ought to know ...
— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield
... to tote the little fellow around to see the fun—if you fellows can stand having me with you," announced Hoof sadly, rather pleadingly. ...
— The Grammar School Boys of Gridley - or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving • H. Irving Hancock
... scrubs! They're the ones we're after," Tom exclaimed, jumping up. "You didn't kill 'em, stranger?" he added pleadingly. ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... would have stayed close to her, and would have kept the letter; Harold did neither. Her recognition of the truth was shown in her act, when, stretching out her arms in the darkness, she whispered pleadingly: ...
— The Man • Bram Stoker
... look in Dan's eyes as he stooped over the crib, and saw the little face light up at first sight of him, but he heard Mrs. Bhaer say pleadingly, ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... me any more, will you?" he said, pleadingly; "because I never use bear's grease or musk, and my hair ...
— Wired Love - A Romance of Dots and Dashes • Ella Cheever Thayer
... will take me, won't you?" she continued pleadingly. "You don't know how we women envy you men those wonderful walking-tours we can only read about in Hazlitt or Stevenson. We are not allowed to move without a nurse or a footman. From the day we are born to ...
— The Quest of the Golden Girl • Richard le Gallienne
... gathering up his tattered school books, went, and stood not on the order of his going. Whereupon Fanny darted nimbly to one side, out of the way of boyish brown fists. In that moment she was transformed from a raging fury into a very meek and trembling little girl, who looked shyly and pleadingly out from a tangle of curls. The boys were for rushing ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... with his head in his hands. "Oh, Mis' Elizabeth, you-all ain't goin' ter give dat goat away?" he broke out pleadingly. "'At goat's lived here all his life, deed he has, Mis' Elizabeth, an' he wouldn' feel ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey
... been a little brusque to him at times, and now she reproached herself in remorseful compunction, and with the abandonment of a child to her present overwrought condition, felt that she could never refuse him anything should his blue eyes turn pleadingly to her again. At first she did not give way, but was sustained, like Maggie, by the bustle of preparation for the return, and in answering the innumerable questions of Johnnie and Alf. Webb's assurance to his mother that he would bring Burt back safe and sound was her chief ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... persisted the Marquis, pleadingly. "That man is county judge, and his acts are binding. I ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... a moment and then added, pleadingly, "You know that's a good work to do for the sake of other people, besides the owner. And you don't know but that they may have a better owner soon, whom you will like to work for. If I die, ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... indeed you must not!" cried she, as pleadingly as a little child, who will not be caressed, yet knows not why ...
— Outpost • J.G. Austin
... you like her?" and he looked at his mother pleadingly, as if asking her forgiveness and her ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... going to be my treat this time," said Mabel, with a laugh. "I want you all to come to dinner with me. You'll come; won't you, Joe?" she asked, pleadingly. ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
... the eyes that looked so pleadingly into his face! Was she a coquette? But he could only ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... pleadingly, the tears raining down her cheeks. She, the strong, the noble, appealing to him. In that moment she became a saint, a being to be worshipped afar ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various
... pain is nearly all gone now," Elsie answered gently; and then the soft eyes were raised pleadingly to her ...
— Holidays at Roselands • Martha Finley
... standing empty; and there is the furniture; and there will be about fifty pounds, perhaps less, when every thing is settled. And we have clothes enough to last some time, and——" here Dulce put her hands together pleadingly, but Phillis looked at her severely, and went on: "Forty or fifty pounds will soon be spent, and then we shall be absolutely penniless; we have no one to help us. Mother will not hear of writing to Uncle Francis; we must work ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... pleadingly. "We don't know anything—at all. I never have known, and until lately Dick has been ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... ask such a question? Because of the emeralds. It is only a mad lark, after all, and no one need know of it. Oh, Monsieur Valmont,' she cried pleadingly, clasping her hands, and yet it seemed to me with an undercurrent of laughter in her beseeching tones, 'will you not enact for us the part of clergyman? I am sure if your face were as serious as it is at this moment, the robes of ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr
... tell you, first, that I admire you, esteem you, infinitely: let me say this before I go; and you will think of me kindly." He said this pleadingly. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various
... window, and leaning out, whispered, "Are you talking about Alessandro's staying? Let me come and talk to him. He must not go." And running swiftly through the hall, across the veranda, and down the steps, she stood by Alessandro's side in a moment. Looking up in his face pleadingly, she said: "We can't let you go, Alessandro. The Senor will pay wages to some other to go in your place with the shearers. We want you to stay here in Juan Can's place till he is well. Don't say you can't stay! Felipe may need you ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... his grave, stern face two or three times, then said humbly, pleadingly, "Papa, please may I put my hand ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... on again talking to him gently, pleadingly, complimentarily: "Nice good horsey! Pretty pony so he was!" But he only edged ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
... pleadingly, "the old way is the best way! I cannot bear to take you—to have you promise yourself ...
— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers
... he thought any one could for any reason whatever come between him and Tessibel Skinner. He did not concede it now in its fullness, but Madelene was looking pleadingly into his face and had spoken of his mother with tender sympathy. He suddenly reached out and took her hand. He would tell her of his young wife. He would take her into his confidence right then, and all would be well for them ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... overwrought nerves were not easily controlled, and he knelt beside her, speaking soothingly and pleadingly. "Dear Madge, dear sister Madge. Oh, I wish Mary was here!" and he kissed her ...
— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe
... quiet tone. "It may be that her steering-gear broke," he said. "I don't believe it was her fault. Never will! No, it was just one of those things—" He emptied his lungs with a great breath of nervousness and sympathy. "Now, we want you to-night—" he began, pleadingly. ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... all sure. We have leased the house for one year; and we can't move in until our furniture comes, of course. But I do long to see what the place is like, don't you?" replied Mercy, pleadingly. ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson
... you gimme that baby." cried the man, pleadingly. "I found him myself, and he's mine. I've dragged him here all the way from his home upstairs, an' don't you dare lay a ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society • Edith Van Dyne
... prim little manner of yours, but you are too proud to show it. And see, Lizzie, old girl, I'm not really the reckless scallawag you think me to be," and he stroked her hair, and looked so earnestly and pleadingly into her eyes, that her woman's heart triumphed, and she leant her ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... said pleadingly, "the Greek physician gave this to me. He told me it was an Eastern charm to keep the lives of those who wore it. Will you wear it ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... "You said," she continued pleadingly, "that there was no excuse for me and girls like me. Maybe you would find one if you knew what we are up against. Every one knocks instead of boosts, and tells us how low-down we are. Just as if a ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... please," Bertram put in, half-pleadingly, it is true, but still with that same ineffable and indefinable air of a great gentleman that never for a moment deserted him. "The duke would never have heard of my ancestors, I'm sure, and I particularly ...
— The British Barbarians • Grant Allen
... enormous help to us—and to poor Gwendolen Matcher," she persisted pleadingly. "And you'd be doing Guy ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... Juventus Mundi; The true King-maker now is—Mrs. GRUNDY, And she insisted that our modern Frogs Should have a King—the woodenest of King Logs. At first this terrified our Frogs exceedingly, And, sometimes passionately, sometimes pleadingly, They grumbled and protested; But finding soon how placidly Log rested Prone in the pool with mighty little motion, Of danger they abandoned the wild notion, Finding it easy for a Frog to jog On with a kind King Log. But in the fulness of the time, there came A would-be monarch—Legion ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891 • Various
... Deborah Read come to say to you—to say to you—that she should have remembered that you were a stranger in a city full of strangers. (Pleadingly.) Indeed, indeed I did not mean to hurt you! I do not mind your rusty clothes; I do not mock your—your faded hat. I—I have been full of foolish ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay
... get to bed!" murmured Miss Catherine, pleadingly— "What's the good of making any ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... you. I'll pick out the best place in the world, if I can find it, and you won't know where we're going till we get there.... Won't that be bully?... I hate to go now, dear, but you're all out of sorts—and I'll have a heap of things to do—to get ready. So will you." He stopped and looked at her pleadingly, but she could not give him what his eyes asked; she could not give him her lips to-night.... He waited a moment, then, very gently, he took her hand and touched it with ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... alone." He pulled himself away from Norry. "I'm no good. I'm an ex-cree-shence. I'm goin' t' commit suicide; tha's what I'm goin' t' do. Nobody'll care 'cept my musher, and she wouldn't either if she knew me. Oh, oh, I wish I didn't use a shafety-razor. I'll tell you what to do, Norry." He clung pleadingly to Norry's arm and begged with passionate intensity. "You go over to Harry King's room. He's got a re-re—a pistol. You get it for me and I'll put it right here—" he touched his temple awkwardly—"and I'll—I'll ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... carpet slippers for the smart pumps he had been wearing. There was a great deal of excitement attending the placing of the children, but it passed unnoticed by Mr. Flanders. He was staring hungrily, pleadingly at the unfriendly ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
... then made a last desperate attempt. "Miss Thorne," he said, pleadingly, "please don't be unkind to me. You have my reason in your hands. I can see myself now, sitting on the floor, at one end of the dangerous ward. They'll smear my fingers with molasses and give me half a dozen feathers to play with. You'll come to ...
— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed
... blame Jane too much," he began pleadingly. "I guess she kind o' dassent give it to yer, so long afterwards. It's locked,"—as Polly pulled at the cover,—"and there ain't no key," he mourned. "I do' know what Jane's done with it. Yer'll have to git another,—there wa'n't no other ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... of rebuke and bitter reproach. I was mad with passion; resolved to slay myself, if she did not then and there disclose to me either her love or her contempt. I dared all, to win all. She stood pallid and trembling before me, and, as I railed at her, she extended her arms humbly and pleadingly toward me. Oh! she was fair and beautiful as a pardoning angel, with these glistening tears in her wondrous, dreamy eyes, fair and beautiful as a houri of Paradise; when at last, carried away by her own heart, she bowed down and confessed that she loved me; that ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... think about it?" she faltered. A sudden brightness came into his face. "You know how I was brought up to think of divorce," she went on, pleadingly. "I've made plenty of mistakes in my life, but I've never deliberately done what ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... accused of too much modesty; but when I entered and looked on Veranilda—oh, it was the strangest moment of my life! Noble cousin,' he added pleadingly, 'honoured Aurelia, do but tell me ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing
... earl, pleadingly, "do not so grievously disappoint me. My heart yearns to have you to myself for one little moment where spying eyes cannot see nor prying ears hear. It is cruel in you to raise my hopes only to cast them down. I beg you, ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... his sorrowing face was turned ever toward the fleeting object of his love. Hills, valleys, forests, plains, and other mountains separated them now, but over and beyond them all he could see was her fair face lifted pleadingly toward him, while her white arms tossed wildly to and fro. But he did not know what words she said, for the envious air would not bear her ...
— A Little Book of Profitable Tales • Eugene Field
... he began softly, pleadingly, almost prayerfully. But the thrower of stones waited to hear no more. As he came nearer, almost near enough to touch, holding her with dumb eyes so different from those she had expected, she fired another shot—it seemed just to fly out of her ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various
... the tears from my stony heart, as agony will sometimes force out the drops of perspiration when the body is shivering with cold. I was young like you once, and my bridal was fixed—" She paused, and stealing an arm around her waist, Rosamond said pleadingly, "Tell me about it, Miss Porter, I always knew you had a history. Did the ...
— Rosamond - or, The Youthful Error • Mary J. Holmes
... pleadingly, pressing his lips to a chink between the stakes. "Aissa, do you hear me? Come back! I will do what you want, give you all you desire—if I have to set the whole Sambir on fire and put that fire out with blood. Only come back. Now! At once! Are you there? ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... heaven's sake, be melancholy over it. I love you, my dear, and I want you to be happy. You will be, if only you can get the right point of view. Try! Won't you, dear?" As he finished speaking with this appeal, Hamilton leaned forward anxiously, pleadingly. Deep down in his heart he felt a glow of pride over the mildness and the reasonableness with which he had presented the case in its true light to this ...
— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan
... pleadingly, "that punishment would fall nearly as heavily upon Gracie as upon Lulu; and a better child than Grace is not to ...
— The Two Elsies - A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket, Book 10 • Martha Finley
... Jack Carleton leaped to his feet and declared he would go with him on the search for the lost horse (subject, of course, to the consent of his mother), and the German youth looked pleadingly toward the good woman, who, it is hardly necessary to say, yielded consent, giving with it a large amount of motherly counsel, to which the boys listened respectfully, though candor compels me to say that the thoughts of both were far away among the green woods, beside the sparkling ...
— Camp-fire and Wigwam • Edward Sylvester Ellis |
