65 collocations for appeals

A sweet-faced, sad little woman it showed, with appealing eyes and lips that seemed to quiver even in the photograph.

Also Caesar was to hold the tribunician power for life, to have the right to defend such as called upon him for help both within the pomerium and outside to the distance of eight half-stadia (a privilege possessed by none of the tribunes), as also to judge appealed cases; and a vote of his, like the vote of Athena, was to be cast in all the courts.

I appeal, then, to you, the commercial men of Liverpool, if there are any such in this congregation.

He takes much pains to paradeperhaps he really believes inhis impartiality, with what justice we appeal to the foregoing pages; but he is guilty of a prejudice as injurious in its consequences to truth as any political bias.

Woman, in her appealing delicacy and suffering, about to become a mother, is fainting under the lash, or sinking exhausted beside her cotton row.

The sufferings of individuals have often been the means of destroying or reforming the most powerful tyrannies; reason has been convinced by argument, and passion appealed to by declamation in vainwhen some unvarnished tale, or simple exposure of facts, has at once rouzed the feelings, and conquered the supineness of an oppressed people.

Now Sam and Maxime, deeming the incident closed, were walking up the levee road beyond the stock-pens, in the new and more sympathetic company of the two mounted bull-drivers, to whose love of patriotic adventure they had appealed successfully.

"And you, Arthur?" asked Hiram in the same solemn, appealing tone.

"I mean," he added, "that Thorpe appeals toermature women.

And now, in 1770, in his Wealth of Nations, he showed in a forcible manner (for he appealed to the interest of those concerned) the dearness of African labour, or the impolicy of employing slaves.

When such judges are on hand, a player may appeal any decision of the referee directly to the judges.

The defeated party appealed to the Parliament, and, by continuing the case till after the death of the Abbé and the Duke, succeeded in obtaining a reversal of the decision, and the declaration that the claimant was an impostor.

But heavenwhich he had not appealed tohad decreed that Fort Willis should be evacuated under her own auspices.

But the tribe refused to break Abu Bera's pledge, so Aamir, determined to root them out, appealed to the Beni Suleim, Mahomet's avowed enemies, and with their aid proceeded to Bir Mauna.

The one nearest me had a sweet, appealing little face, too.

Such poems as "The Cry of the Children," which voices the protest of humanity against child labor, appealed tremendously to the readers of the age, and this young woman's fame as a poet temporarily overshadowed that of Tennyson and Browning.

Conceiving the study of metaphysics itself to be the origin of this mischief, in order that the evil might be intercepted at its source, he proposed to demonstrate the futility of that science, and to appeal to the common sense and unsophisticated feelings of mankind, as the only infallible criterion on subjects in which it had formerly been made the standard.

The axiom of ancient science, "that the corruption of one thing is the birth of another," had its popular embodiment in the notion that a seed dies before the young plant springs from it; a belief so widespread and so fixed, that Saint Paul appeals to it in one of the most splendid outbursts of his fervid eloquence: "Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.

It will appeal to everyone who cares for trees, the forests or the open air.

Thisthis was too much; all flashed indignant or appealing glances at the inexorable Davis, and one passionate lime-lover burst into tears.

He again denies the charge, and reminds his judges of what he had done for the German wounded, to whose gratitude he appeals.

So saying, he came a step towards her, faltered, stopped, and reached out appealing hands to her.

we pay 'em cash enough ter fee a hundred more; They sing newfangled tunes and things that some folks think are sweet, But don't appeal ter me no more'n a fish-horn on the street.

Do ye think," he appealed to his audience, "it would brak' his jaw if I gave him a bit lick across it?" He advanced a huge hand for inspection, and listened to the free advice given to try it, and the earnest assurances that it did not matter much if the jaw did break.

"Mother," appealed Johnnie desperately, "do you want the children to go into the mill?"

65 collocations for  appeals