59 adjectives to describe pleading

" Thus they partedhe starting on his life's journey with her earnest pleadings ringing in his ears.

Then the very voice that said these words, that voice of veiled strength and manly daring, that spoke with such a gentle pleading, and yet such an undertone of authority, as if he had a right to claim her for himself,she seemed to feel the tones of that voice in every nerve;and then the strange thrilling pleasure of thinking that he loved her so.

If, as subsequent events have shown, he was unmoved by the underlying principle and cause for which his eloquent pleading stood, anyhow we must believe he was deeply impressed by the prospect of his personal ambition as the leader of a party being thwarted by the contemptuous action of an irresponsible body.

All of which is mere specious and idle special pleading on behalf of Moussa Isa, a sinful murderous Somali.... Most of the memories of Moussa Isa centred round scars.

No remuneration was given originally for forensic pleading beyond the services which the client gave to a patron, but gradually the practice of the law became lucrative.

Their tearful pleadings would soften a heart of stone.

He harped upon his consulship in season and out of season, in his letters, in his judicial pleadings, in his public speeches (and we may be sure in his conversation), until one would think his friends must have hated the subject even more than his enemies.

As a last resource Marie flies to the King, with tender pleadings and tears, begging him not to desert her; to which he answers that no power on earth shall make him wed the Infanta.

Heaven knows she had struggled bravely against this luckless passion, had resisted long and steadily the assiduous pursuit, the passionate half-despairing pleading, of her lover, who would not be driven away, and who invented all kinds of expedients for seeing her, however difficult the business might be, or however resolutely she might endeavour to avoid him.

Swift glide its hours, and day succeeds to day; How dost thou live, still deaf to Love's sweet pleading? To-night's fair rose to-morrow fades away.

The dog, with protruding tongue and eyesthat had the piteous pleading and reproach of the human, looked up at him, bloodshot and failing.

Follett was awakened twice by the other putting wood on the fire; and twice more by his pitiful pleading with something at his back not to come in front of him.

And then perhapsif only youryour rules and etiquette" Mary scornfully cut short his embarrassed pleadings.

she answered, quite unabashed, without a trace of the fearful, tender pleading of the previous week's interviewquite as if I had been an accomplice, "I can give you excellent security.

In fervent pleadings for a father's life.

We witnessed nowhere any wailings or wringing of hands or frantic, foolish pleading to stay at home.

At Athens, and even in France and England, formal and prepared pleadings were prohibited, and it was unlawful to amuse the court with long, artful harangues; only it was the settled custom here, in important matters, to begin the pleadings with a text out of the holy scriptures.

" "Dearest Eugene," said Emmeline, "I feel it is to you, to your generous pleadings in Arthur's favour, I greatly owe this happiness.

when dragged to judgment by the Convention, and who, honourably fulfilling his perilous office, pled for the space of three hours, an honourable pleading "composed almost overnight; courageous, yet discreet; not without ingenuity, and soft pathetic eloquence"; he was imprisoned for a time, but escaped the scaffold; on the return of the Bourbons he was made a peer (1750-1828).

Convulsively, Jack straightened with desperation and all the impassioned pleading to Mary on the pass was in his eyes.

Gratton began an incoherent pleading, arrested impatiently by Brodie's great voice.

Now a newspaper that dared to fill its columns mainly with parliamentary debates, with a full report of the trivialities the academic points, the little familiar jokes, and entirely insincere pleadings which occupy that gathering would court bankruptcy.

But it was Dr. Talmage's irresistible pleadings that won their hearts.

the little fellow plead so earnestly, and the father's ever-present apprehensions having gradually dulled by their want of realization, he had given his reluctant consent, until it came to be considered the special province of the boy to bring in the goat every evening just before nightfall.

It was, however, but a faltering and slowly-growing conviction, and death claims him before he can make amends for the wrong into which his masterful pleading has betrayed her.

59 adjectives to describe  pleading