194 Verbs to Use for the Word request

I now ask you, and believe you will grant my request, to make arrangements to give me my freedom as soon as possible.

I express my sincere gratitude to the many persons who have enabled me to give these illustrations, and only regret that one collector refused my request for the loan of some very early and interesting letters.

Of his work I can say nothing; I pretend not to judge of painting; and this picture I never saw: but I conceive it extremely hard to shut out any man from the possibility of success; and therefore I repeat my request that you will propose the re-consideration of Mr. Lowe's case; and if there be any among the Council with whom my name can have any weight, be pleased to communicate to them the desire of, Sir, Your most humble servant, SAM.

Well and favourably known to both men, he had no difficulty in stating his business and preferring his request.

After sending several requests for the immediate return of his dog, requests that received no attention, the Boy went out to the gulch to recover him.

Mr. Mitchell was a man of great suavity and gentleness; if left to himself he would never have denied a single request made to him by one of his children.

I think you would do well to pass the winter in Italy, and avoid so tremendous an accident; and, if you think it as necessary as I do, so long as you continue to find Pisa or its neighbourhood agreeable to you, Mrs. Shelley unites with myself in urging the request that you would take up your residence with us.

When Djaida heard from her mother the request of Khaled, she said, "This shall never be, though I be forced to drink the cup of death.

" The coolness of the cucumber has long ago become proverbial for a person of a cold collected nature, "As cool as a cucumber," and the man who not only makes unreasonable requests, but equally expects them to be gratified, is said to "ask an elm-tree for pears."

He only obtained a contemptuous request that he should consult his own safety by retiring to Namur.

HARDING: Seven years ago last New Year's night a child was left on your doorsteps, with a note containing a request that you would care for it kindly as your own.

At Cherson he received an urgent request to visit a lady who had the fever.

" Mathieu wished to profit by this fresh delay, and sought to renew his request; but Valentine was already rattling on again, talking of dining at the most disreputable restaurant possible, and asking if at the first performance which they were to attend they would see all the horrors which had been hissed at the dress rehearsal the night before.

It was my moment of advantage, and I improved it by proffering a request which had been more or less in my mind during the whole of this prolonged colloquy.

October 7th, President Wilson answered Prince Max's request with a refusal.

" John promised to obey his request, and then, being one whom hope never entirely deserted, he turned upon the captain of the ship and once more urged him to make some manly exertion to save himself and the crew.

" Now that nothing stood between her wish to speak, and her own manner of making known the request, Donna Violetta appeared to shrink from expressing it.

His mother, on hearing this, burst out laughing, but Aladdin at last prevailed upon her to go before the Sultan and carry his request.

The poor mother was amazed and did not want to present his request to the chief.

He made repeated signs to us to sit down, that is to say, in the Asiatic manner, a posture extremely inconvenient for those who, like ourselves, wore long and tight trousers, whilst the two beautiful women on their side earnestly seconded his request.

But opened not my door till six: when Dorcas brought me his request for my company.

He added]: These requests I have very often explained since I have had the honour to be in the United States.

PRINCE MAX WRITES A NOTE Then on October 6th, 1918, came the note of the German Chancellor, Prince Maximilian of Baden, asking an armistice and a peace conferencein essence, an astounding request for time to reconsolidate the German armies and bring up fresh guns and munitions.

"I received a letter a few days ago from General Van Rensselaer in which he says: 'I immediately laid your request before the President and seconded it with my warmest recommendations.

He ought therefore, replied the baron, without being moved, to consider the consequences well before he begins to adore:if I had been consulted in the matter I should have advised you better; but it is now too late, and all I can do is to prevent your ever meeting more:this, Horatio, is all I have to say, and that if in any other affair I can be serviceable to you, communicate your request in writing, and depend on its being granted.

194 Verbs to Use for the Word  request