" When anyone went to stay with James, he was adjured to "bring-your-golf-clubs-old-man-as-I-can-give -you-a-bit-of-a-game-on-my-own-course-only-a-nine-hole-one-you understand."

" "Don't try to be a bigger jack than you are," Racey adjured him in a tone that he strove to make contemptuous.

Sancho rose, and was adjured by his subjects to lead them forth against their terrible foes.

" Maru borrowed Kaipi's knife, nodded confidently as we adjured him to use caution, and then slipped back along the track so that he could climb to the level of the one-eyed person's perch before attempting to creep upon him.

Dante waited his time, and then lifted up his voice between the gusts of wind, and adjured the two "weary souls" to halt and have speech with him, if none forbade their doing so; upon which they came to him, like doves to the nest.

"Nothin' doin'," he began, "until" "Don't decide hastily," adjured the young man.

" "Evidently the Little Red Doctor told you that my mind was a tottering ruin, which may be quite true; but if it's a matter of investing in the Peruvian Gold, Rubber Tree, and Perpetual Motion Concession, I'm reluctantly compelled" "Forget it!" adjured the hard, pink man in a tone which secured my silence and almost my confidence.

When informed that she was seriously ill, he insisted upon being taken up into her bedroom, and adjured her for the love of Italy to get Lord John away from the ambassadors at once.

The Inspector would make no promises but simply adjured him to make a clean breast of his share in the transaction.

Wherefore, it was about four o'clock when he handed the telegram to the station operator, and adjured him by all that was good and great not to delay its sending.

Thus adjured, Henry of Navarre yielded; nor did the Princess on her part offer any violent opposition to the marriage.

Hearing these piteous words of Damayanti, and ascertaining her fixed resolve, and fervent love for the king of Nishadhas, the purity of her heart and her inclination and regard and affection for Nala, the gods did as they had been adjured, and assumed their respective attributes as best they could.

'Don't keep us all night.' Lord Almeric, thus adjured, turned a card with a flourish.

In October, 1794, the Grand Jury of Hamilton County entreated and adjured the people, in spite of the Indian outrages to stand firmly by the law, and not to try to be their own avengers; and when some whites settled in Powell's Valley, on Cherokee lands, Governor Blount promptly turned them off.

In vain was the Medium again and again adjured to put forth every power.

He adjured her to unite herself to him at the altar as his wife, and to give him the right to carry her abroad with him as his own.

Thus adjured, Maggie led the way up a steep and stony path, followed by her mother, Mrs. Murphy, and sundry other of the neighbours, all agog with excitement and curiosity.

" Judy's beady black eyes were fixed somewhat vacantly on her mistress's face during this speech, but she nodded at the end, and on being adjured not to forget, informed Roseen, somewhat tartly, that she had no notion of forgettin'.

Did it never occur to you that we could see your reflection in the glass?" Thus adjured, I reissue forth.

This visit comforted Des Esseintes who none the less was frightened by the taciturnity observed; he adjured his servant not to conceal the truth from him any longer.

" Thus adjured, Juliet found herself compelled.

" Thus adjured, the maiden approached within a few paces of the Prince, and having made a lowly salutation, said, "All that your Highness has advanced concerning me is correct.

" So adjured, a man, whose wild, fanatical appearance had given rise to the rumor that the famous "Lorenzo Dow" was on board, sprang on a bulkhead, and commenced to exhort the crowd about him, from which a file of pale, determined-looking men was slowly emerging to join the seamen at the other end of the vessel in their efforts for the public weal.

"Dinah," I adjured, cutting short the stream of her narrative, "for God's sake, see Mr. McDe

Thus adjured, Renaud, with breaking heart, finally consented.