304 adjectives to describe appeal

Still, she was not foolish enough to run after Jack, take his arm, and make a direct appeal.

The French public had responded most generously, as they always do, to the urgent appeal made by the ambassador in the name of the Emperor, and the Government had contributed largely to the fund.

When we had nearly reached our lodgings, we heard a violent altercation in the house, and on entering, we found our landlord and his wife engaged in a dispute respecting their domestic economy, and they both made earnest appeals to my companion for the correctness of their respective opinions.

The thin red cases hanging on the wall told her that the men were musicians; and in response to the mute appeal in her eyes her husband bade her with almost brutal candour prepare to adopt her old profession of dancing and singing in order to save him from the hateful duties of a public letter-writer.

The wretched woman made a pathetic appeal for her husband's life.

The stranger was tossing restlessly in his bunk, opening and shutting his parched mouth in silent, piteous appeal for the water that must still be doled to him parsimoniously.

The matter was not easy, for suspicion rested heavily upon her; but her determination removed all obstacles, and the queen, profoundly moved by Walpurga's jerky explanation and passionate appeal, and stirred to the very depths of her soul by Irma's heroism, demanded to be led at once to her.

"May we get in on this?" she called, interrupting an eloquent appeal on Laura's part.

It is the solemn appeal of the whole people, of the united body of our constituents, in this time of national calamity, earnestly beseeching you, in a legal parliamentary way, to redress their grievances, to revive your ancient right of inquiry, to explore the most remote and hidden sources of iniquity, to detect the bold authors of their distress, that they may be made examples of national justice.

Fairy stories of the best kind have a universal appeal.

After another vain appeal to the Moorish ruler even Abd-el-Kader felt that all was lost.

He meant to use invective, argument, testimony and a powerful emotional appeal, such as a country lawyer invariably attempts with a jury.

This means a constant appeal to the law that is behind both teacher and children and which they learn to reach apart from the teacher's control.

That to supplicate is to ask with urgent or even desperate appeal.

But this great court of ultimate appeal pronounced such a damning judgment on his gross pretensions that even Germain could not prevent his final dismissal from all employment under the Crown.

He then made a touching appeal to them not to increase by example the spreading spirit of revolt.

Words of grave import were even heard, denouncing those who refused to restore to Antonio his child; and it was whispered on the deck of the Bucentaur, that, filled with the imaginary importance of their passing victory, the hardy band of rioters had dared to menace a forcible appeal, to obtain what they audaciously termed the justice of the case.

It contained an almost irresistible appeal to his auditors by frequent references to the ancient system of things in France, and to their situation and prospects under the new.

Thrilling with this interpretation, Josie pulled at Lizzie's sleeve, and made a frantic appeal to her to come away as the policeman had advised, adding, "We are decent girls, andit's a disgrace to have anything to do with such a lot as Becky and her family and" "What yer talkin' 'bout?" suddenly interrupted the policeman,"what yer talkin' 'bout?

That made it easier for him to make a stirring appeal to the jury than it would have been if his client had fully confessed to him.

The full privilege of elections in the clergy, granted by the late king, was not confirmed, nor the liberty of going out of the kingdom, without the royal consent: whence we may conclude, that Pembroke and the barons, jealous of the ecclesiastical power, both were desirous of renewing the king's claim to issue a congé d'élire to the monks and chapters, and thought it requisite to put some check to the frequent appeals to Rome.

Angy felt that she had been made miraculously young by the birth of this new Abrahamalmost as if at last she had been given the son for whom in her youth she had prayed with impassioned appeal.

Little Samuel Darby paused at the foot of the bed and stared at Abe without saying a word, while Abe fixed his dim, distressed eyes on his visitor with a dumb appeal for assistance.

The weakness of this wider creed is that it makes no such immediate and strong appeal to the natural instincts as is made by the mother-country.

Be that as it may, Clarissa was anything but a mournful person in general; her spirits were somewhat prone to outrun her physical strength, and therefore her sad little appeal for one of her sisters to cheer her had come in the light of a demand to the Litchfield home, and alarmed them more than anything else could have done.

304 adjectives to describe  appeal