The native word, besides being in itself simpler and starker than the classic, makes stronger appeal to our feelings and affections.

" He meant to answer the appeal, half cleared his throat, but his voice felt rusty; it wouldn't turn out a word.

Which of them is it that is perhaps to cost the old man his life?" Mary could not resist the appeal; that could hardly be her duty, and certainly was not her inclination.

"All I can repeat," he said, "is that if you bring the young Englishwoman here I shall be quite prepared to hear her appeal."

The Chamber of Commerce sent an imperative appeal to representative wheat-raisers, ranchers, lumbermen, farmers, and bade them come to Spokane to discuss the situation.

He received a letter from their sister Fatima, containing a touching appeal to Don John's humanity, and soliciting the release of her orphan brothers.

He could not speak, but she had read the message of his eyes, the appeal to the strength in her to help the other's weakness.

" "The police say that fully twenty minutes elapsed between the time they received Miss Cumberland's appeal for help and their arrival at the club-house.

It is said, by the old member who has written an appeal against the tax, that "as the produce of American labour is spent in British manufactures, the balance of trade is greatly against them; whatever you take directly in taxes is, in effect, taken from your own commerce.

Then came a hit at the previous military rule'That Decrees of the military Courts may be amended [after having been confirmed by legal ordinance] by allowing Appeals if the matter decided exceed Ten Pounds,' which would put it out of the reach of the 'inferior Courts' and into the clutches of 'the King's Old Subjects.'

Perhaps if Gregory XVI. had met his appeal with a few words of simple explanation and advice, instead of with that mysterious reticence which is falsely supposed to be the soul of diplomacy, the issue might have been as happy as it was miserable.

And Necker's daughter, Madame de Staël, who, as we have seen, had been formerly desirous to aid in her escape, now addressed an energetic and eloquent appeal to the entire people, calling on all persons of all parties, "Republicans, Constitutionalists, and Aristocrats alike, to unite for her preservation."

These lecturers were enjoined to avoid as much as possible any appeals to sentiment or to passion.

Nothing truly would be quite so odd for her case as aid proceeding from Mr. Pitman; unless perhaps the oddity would be even greater for himselfthe oddity of her having taken into her head an appeal to him.

When Mr. Lincoln had granted permission for the recruiting of these regiments, Douglass issued through his paper a stirring appeal, which was copied in the principal journals of the Union States, exhorting his people to rally to this call, to seize this opportunity to strike a blow at slavery and win the gratitude of the country and the blessings of liberty for themselves and their posterity.

By the life of prayer, many mean merely a way of learning to make public petitions, an objective appeal to God.

Then it is "clearly our highest wisdom to follow right"an appeal to prudential motives"not from any selfish calculations"a repudiation of prudential motives"but because 'right is right'"an appeal to a blind unreasoning instinct, and a prohibition to question its authority.

But if you'd seen her as I saw herBarnett!" He turned in appeal to his old acquaintance.

We can understand her humorous appeal to a friend "to procure her a dragon, to be kept in her courtyard.

" The Carmelite and Jacopo kneeled side by side, the latter bowing his head to the block, while the monk uttered a final appeal to the mercy of the Deity.

Ah, sorely felt he in his heart the spur of honor prick, But love's appeal that held him, it pierced him to the quick.

The other girls, not heeding Amy's frantic appeal, stood still, but she ran back toward the road, her short skirt giving her a chance to exercise her speed.

There lay an appeal, in default of justice, from all these courts to the king himself in council; and as the people, sensible of the equity and great talents of Alfred, placed their chief confidence in him, he was soon overwhelmed with appeals from all parts of England.

Hilda glanced down at her, astonished, and saw in her eyes an almost childish appeal, weak and passionate, which gripped the heart painfully.

He urged forgiveness, but Sir Henry disregarded all his appeals.