"Pleadingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oot!" he ordered. Bobby looked up pleadingly and trembled, but he made no motion to obey. James Brown was not an unfeeling man, and he was but doing his duty. From an impulse of pity for this bonny wee bit of loyalty and grief he picked Bobby up, carried ...
— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson
... eavesdropper! He recalled every little detail of the scene in the picture-gallery and at once realised how much a treacherous as well as jealous and vindictive man could make of it. Maryllia's hand laid so coaxingly on his arm,—Maryllia's face so sweetly and pleadingly upturned,—Maryllia's half-tender tremulous voice with its 'Will you forgive me?'—and then—his own impetuous words!—the way he had caught her hand and kissed it!—why his very look must have betrayed him to the 'noble and honourable' detective, part of whose distinguished role it was to ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... into his grave, stern face two or three times, then said humbly, pleadingly, "Papa, please may I put my hand ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... her with outstretched arms. The look on his face awed Joyce—but before she was swept into a bliss that might not be rightfully hers, she shrank from him. She put her hands out pleadingly as if imploring him to withhold what her soul ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock
... there," he said. "But she is all right— Isobel." He spoke her name almost pleadingly. "She is all right. She will not take ...
— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood
... exclaimed, disconsolately. "There's a stake worth playing for. Think of it!" He turned pleadingly to Garson. "Half ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... whispered, "Are you talking about Alessandro's staying? Let me come and talk to him. He must not go." And running swiftly through the hall, across the veranda, and down the steps, she stood by Alessandro's side in a moment. Looking up in his face pleadingly, she said: "We can't let you go, Alessandro. The Senor will pay wages to some other to go in your place with the shearers. We want you to stay here in Juan Can's place till he is well. Don't say you can't stay! Felipe may need you to ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... nor of Hugo; she drew a chair close to the long table upon which the still, white form was stretched, seated herself, and looked steadfastly at the uncovered face. Brian started at the sight of his mother; he glanced at her pleadingly, as if he would have spoken; but the rigidity of her face repelled him. He hung his head and turned a little from her, ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... little fellow around to see the fun—if you fellows can stand having me with you," announced Hoof sadly, rather pleadingly. ...
— The Grammar School Boys of Gridley - or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving • H. Irving Hancock
... was a pretty, gentle-faced spinster, could not hush her mother, whisper as pleadingly as she might into the sharp old ear in the bonnet-frills. The old woman was full of the desire for tea, and could scarcely be restrained from following up its fragrant scent ...
— Jerome, A Poor Man - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... bench. She left it. She forgot it. Ain't it mine now?" pleadingly. "I waited, honest, but she ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott
... the rim of his glass. Oliver started to speak but Mr. Piper put up his hand. "No—please—it will be so much easier if I finish what I have to say first," he said rather pleadingly. ...
— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet
... looked at him. An eager flush lit his still boyish face—Guy was twenty-eight—and his blue eyes were very bright. His lithe, muscular figure bent toward her pleadingly; all his arguments were aimed at her. Oliver sat back in his impassive way and watched them both. It could not be denied that it was Marian's decisions which usually ruled ...
— On Christmas Day in the Morning • Grace S. Richmond
... name of boyhood affection that none there had heard uttered for fifty years nearly; and it was as though a stone had been rolled away from a tomb—as though out of the grave of a dead past a voice had been resurrected. "Eddie!" he said a third time, pleadingly, abjectly, ...
— The Escape of Mr. Trimm - His Plight and other Plights • Irvin S. Cobb
... no recollection of what I said as I stalked out of the room. He called out after me, somewhat pleadingly, I thought: ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... "I do try to, Tom," she answered more earnestly than Tom had expected. His remark had been made only in fun. "You believe in me, don't you, Tom?" she added pleadingly. ...
— Madge Morton's Victory • Amy D.V. Chalmers
... promise and plea that call out so pleadingly to these at the close of each message are, "to him that overcometh." This word "overcometh" is very significant. It is one of the characteristic notes of these messages and indeed of this entire book. It is one of that sort of word that sums up a ...
— Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation • S. D. Gordon
... "Michael," said Morris pleadingly, "I am in a very weak state, and I beg your consideration for a kinsman. Say it slowly again, and be sure you are correct. When did he ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... pleadingly. "The Mexicans steal me from my people and bring me far away. They meet Kiowa. Kiowa beat ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter
... "Please!" she said pleadingly. "What does it mean to you, Leslie? We were kind to you, weren't we? When you were ill, we took you on, my sister and I, and now ...
— The After House • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... the forbidden rooms," said Jackie; "we don't go into those now. There are three of them, where the floor's given way, you know, with great holes in them. Maskells is such a jolly place," he added pleadingly; "we don't like any other ...
— A Pair of Clogs • Amy Walton
... but even as I did so my eyes fell upon a slight opening in the wall, and I caught a quick glimpse of Bungay's face, his finger to his lips. Even as I gazed in astonishment at this sudden apparition, a lighter touch rested pleadingly on ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... me think about it?" she faltered. A sudden brightness came into his face. "You know how I was brought up to think of divorce," she went on, pleadingly. "I've made plenty of mistakes in my life, but I've never deliberately done what ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... although whenever he has passed me in the road he has always saluted me with quite delightful courtesy. Oh, Mr. Knox, it is horrible to think of this great misfortune coming to those poor people." She looked at me pleadingly. "How did his wife ...
— Bat Wing • Sax Rohmer
... long to wait!" cried Grace. "Surely there must be some way," and she looked pleadingly ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Florida - Or, Wintering in the Sunny South • Laura Lee Hope
... no great haste in this matter. Bring the release tomorrow, and I will consult authority in the meanwhile," said the keeper pleadingly. ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson
... however, that her father would never refuse her a thing unless he was certain that it would be harmful for her. So she swallowed her tears as well as she could and turned her thoughts to the one hope still left her. Taking the doctor's hand and stroking it, she said pleadingly,— ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri
... her as dead, Mrs. Rogers," said Beth, pleadingly. "I'm sure she is alive, and that we shall find her. We're going right to work, and everything possible shall be done to trace your daughter. Don't worry, please. Be as cheerful as you can, and ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work • Edith Van Dyne
... the king's friend, as you suppose, as my idle words might lead you to believe," returned Nelly, pleadingly. ...
— The Touchstone of Fortune • Charles Major
... the office floor to the stairway. Before the fire sat the girl of the station, her big eyes upon him, pleadingly. With a reassuring smile in her direction, he ...
— Seven Keys to Baldpate • Earl Derr Biggers
... poor child would murmur pleadingly, while the tears welled up into her big round eyes, "not even a little one. I've been waiting such ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various
... She looked pleadingly into his eyes, but he was speechless. At last by a mighty effort he turned with a sickly smile to some of ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... hung," she said pleadingly, "it will leave a mark on my life nothing will ever smooth out. I shall feel myself somehow responsible. I shall say to myself, if I had not been thinking about my own selfish affairs—about getting married—about ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... "Mildred," she said pleadingly, "you must be careful. You'll find yourself involved in a dreadful scandal. I know you wouldn't DO anything WRONG no matter how ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips
... why you have brought me here?" asked Jim, swallowing the lump in his throat, and looking pleadingly up to the cruel stranger. "What do you want ...
— Brave Tom - The Battle That Won • Edward S. Ellis
... lightninglike in its vividness until there comes the little woman of God, Miss Bourne (a deaconess, if you please), who has always known the better man in Saul, who has followed him with her Christly love like "The Hound of Heaven." And how tenderly, yet how insistently, how pleadingly she speaks: ...
— Giant Hours With Poet Preachers • William L. Stidger
... cleft for me," 'T was a woman sung them now, Pleadingly and prayerfully; Every word her heart did know. Rose the song as storm-tossed bird Beats with weary wing the air, Every note with sorrow stirred, Every syllable a prayer,— "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let ...
— The World's Best Poetry Volume IV. • Bliss Carman
... in a dilemma. Was it a ruse to get her out of the yard? If she followed, would they bar the entrance and wreak their vengeance on the others who remained? "Do not go," they cried, and gazed at her pleadingly. But she could not see a woman ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... pleadingly out of her beautiful eyes. "Mr. David, you would not be intentionally cruel to me, I know, so don't speak to me of these things. It only distresses me—and ...
— 'Way Down East - A Romance of New England Life • Joseph R. Grismer
... her claws and scratching at posts, sneaking along as if ready to pounce, pouncing either in earnest or in fun, mewing in many voices, catching at things with nails drawn back or just a little protruded, or drawing the blood with them, laying back her ears, looking up pleadingly and asking for milk—why a cat can say almost anything she ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick
... and she felt of it, looking at him plaintively. "It is so swollen I can't get my boot off. And the leather seems like an iron band around it." She looked pleadingly at him. "Won't you please take ...
— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer
... with him for gold," said another voice, pleadingly. "But when it come to makin' trouble for you folks, ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore
... but the market is glutted with goods of our kind, and nothing is going to be gained by cut-downs and forcing lower-cost goods into it. Still, I can keep things going one way and another, making yarn and so on," he said pleadingly. "I should like to feel that we had this extra surplus. I believe that we owe it ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett
... out her hands pleadingly—the childish hands that had seemed pathetically pretty to ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... ex-cree-shence. I'm goin' t' commit suicide; tha's what I'm goin' t' do. Nobody'll care 'cept my musher, and she wouldn't either if she knew me. Oh, oh, I wish I didn't use a shafety-razor. I'll tell you what to do, Norry." He clung pleadingly to Norry's arm and begged with passionate intensity. "You go over to Harry King's room. He's got a re-re—a pistol. You get it for me and I'll put it right here—" he touched his temple awkwardly—"and I'll—I'll blow my damn brains out. I'm a blot, ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... them pleadingly, the tears raining down her cheeks. She, the strong, the noble, appealing to him. In that moment she became a saint, a being to be ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various
... and then added, pleadingly, "You know that's a good work to do for the sake of other people, besides the owner. And you don't know but that they may have a better owner soon, whom you will like to work for. If I die, my cousin Tradgett will have the ...
— Adam Bede • George Eliot
... afterwards, suddenly, to bow their heads, crossing their hands over their breasts, and suppliantly promising masses, candles, offerings, to the Virgin of Rosario and the Holy Christ of the Grao, addressing those miraculous beings pleadingly, intimately, as though the divinities were present in the flesh there before them. Dolores finally drew her shawl about her and crouched for shelter behind the outermost rock, the wash from the surf climbing up around her legs, but her eyes she held ...
— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... going till we get there.... Won't that be bully?... I hate to go now, dear, but you're all out of sorts—and I'll have a heap of things to do—to get ready. So will you." He stopped and looked at her pleadingly, but she could not give him what his eyes asked; she could not give him her lips to-night.... He waited a moment, then, very gently, he took her hand and ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... are, I believe I should do it again, because I think that no one woman has a right to destroy her family in order to please herself. If one of the two must go, let it be the woman. But don't think hardly of me for it," she added almost pleadingly, "that is ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard
... stole over the old negro's visage as he thrust his hand through his thin, frosty wool, looked pleadingly up at his master's face, and, seeing no signs of relenting there, slowly and reluctantly opened his palm ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... warm milk, dear," she said pleadingly to the disagreeable little girl, who shook her head and drew back with a ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... she said, more gently, "I shan't give you away unless I see that the Prince is being treated unfairly. Let things drift for a week, since he has consented to a truce—don't do anything against him." The words were spoken almost pleadingly. ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... knees, looking pleadingly up in her face. "Elise, forgive me," cried he; "say but one word, 'Pardon,' and I will go away in silence, and never ...
— The Merchant of Berlin - An Historical Novel • L. Muhlbach
... paper, Aunt Nellie! I have a right to know what it says!" She did not seem like the child she was as she stood there, white-faced. Her voice was very calm. Aunt Nellie handed her the paper; as she did so she said pleadingly: "Keineth, why not wait until your Uncle William has found out if it is true?" But Keineth did not hear her; she slowly unfolded the paper, stared a moment at the headlines, then, turning, rushed with ...
— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott
... Do you like her?" and he looked at his mother pleadingly, as if asking her forgiveness and her consent to ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier
... a moment, and he thought she was going to break out tormentedly, pleadingly: "For God's sake, tell me what is in it!" But she checked this impulse—another was stronger. She pocketed the money—the crudity of the alternative was comical—and swept out of the room with the desperate concession: "You may tell him any horror ...
— The Pupil • Henry James
... pleadingly, almost prayerfully. But the thrower of stones waited to hear no more. As he came nearer, almost near enough to touch, holding her with dumb eyes so different from those she had expected, she fired another shot—it seemed just to fly out ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various
... liked music so well, 'til I heer'd th' Leetle Woman sing," declared Ham the moment the sound of Mrs. Dickson's voice ceased. "Her singin' seems tew come a-knockin' right at th' door of a feller's heart. Now, dew sing us another one," and he turned pleadingly to Mrs. Dickson. ...
— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil
... all the little points you had specially begged us to remember in connection with Miss Pearl's probable prejudices. It was so splendidly written, and so quickly, that you can imagine our delight! We could not bear to give up planchette even after both our names had been signed, and I said pleadingly: 'Oh, don't go away! Do stop and tell us ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... by natural instinct to find a mate, and practising every little art of dress and manner which they imagine will help them to that end by making them attractive. Their object is always evident in their eyes, which rove from man to man pathetically, pleadingly, anxiously, mischievously, according to their temperaments, but always with the same ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... came in, and Charlotte, taking her hand without a glance, told the Captain's hard request under her voice. Miss Harper, too, in her turn, gave a start of pain, but when the dying eyes and smile turned pleadingly to her she said, "Why, if you can, Charlotte, dear, but ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
... on mistresses if I were you, Aileen," he ventured, pleadingly. "I should have thought your own experience ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... friendship?" Mr. Longdon earnestly and pleadingly asked, while he still held Vanderbank's arm as if under the spell of the ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... coughed the Cowardly Lion, who, to tell the truth, was feeling a bit jealous. But Dorothy was thrilled, and as Sir Hokus continued to look at her pleadingly, she took off her hair ribbon and bound it ...
— The Royal Book of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... tail!" and then—"if ever I catch one of you boys treating a poor, helpless animal like this again, I'll shake the breath out of your body—was he the beautifullest dog that ever was? And if that isn't enough, Arthur Duncan will lick you all, won't you, Arthur?" She turned pleadingly ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin
... it, my boy, I know it." The hardness of the commissioner's voice broke. "And, so far as I can see, we aren't out of the trouble yet. This man, Seguis, and old Maria may force us to the wall yet. I wonder if I could bribe them off?" He looked pleadingly at ...
— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams
... window. How she was dressed Howland could not have told a moment later. All that he saw was the face, white in the white night—a face on which the shimmering starlight fell as it was lifted to his gaze, beautiful, as clear-cut as a cameo, with eyes that looked up at him half-pleadingly, half-luringly, and lips parted, as if about to speak to him. He stared, moveless in his astonishment, and in another breath ...
— The Danger Trail • James Oliver Curwood
... I—I'd really rather not go away if it means—that. Besides, there is Noel. And next week there will be Aunt Philippa. I think we had better give up the idea, Trevor; I do really, anyhow for the present." She leaned nearer to him; her eyes looked pleadingly into his. "Say you don't mind," she begged him, a ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell
... longing that was passionate urged her to brave his silence. Pleadingly she raised her face ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... He again looked pleadingly at the admiral. "I ... I'm sorry, sir ... but at that I know you're smart enough to have figured out most of it. All right, highly confidential, I can do a bit of mind-reading, and especially with animals and birds, whose minds are ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans
... pleadingly into her husband's face. All her fear had left her. She was calm now and resolved. She had proposed the trip to Rome, the project of aiding the Viscount, and she did not wish to recoil from taking a single step that might be beneficial to Giovanni ...
— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg
... so that you may tell me so," resumed Madame Desvarennes, softly. "I know what you think, but that is not enough." She added pleadingly: ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... our wood seemed rich with mystic presage. Pleadingly my hands went out to her, and trustfully she put hers into them. Slowly I backed between the two big trees, our eyes held as two charmed beings. Everything about me called to her, everything in her urged ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... persisted the Marquis, pleadingly. "That man is county judge, and his acts are binding. I can't—oh, you ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... a half years. The boy was washing himself, having for this purpose taken off his coat and bared the upper part of the body. When his father unexpectedly entered the room, the boy was ashamed and startled, and said pleadingly, as he endeavoured to cover himself by crossing his hands over the breast, "Please don't come in, for I haven't got my shirt on." Sikorsky rightly points out that this position of the arms is typical of the sentiment of shame. Still, such cases are comparatively ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll
... interrupted the earl, pleadingly, "do not so grievously disappoint me. My heart yearns to have you to myself for one little moment where spying eyes cannot see nor prying ears hear. It is cruel in you to raise my hopes only to cast them down. I beg you, ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... last desperate attempt. "Miss Thorne," he said, pleadingly, "please don't be unkind to me. You have my reason in your hands. I can see myself now, sitting on the floor, at one end of the dangerous ward. They'll smear my fingers with molasses and give me half a dozen feathers to play with. You'll come to visit the asylum, sometime, when you're looking for ...
— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed
... tightened about his, but she did not contradict him. Only the violet eyes so like her mother's looked up at him very pleadingly, and he stooped in ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... insistent. I turned the lock, slowly, and a woman rushed into the room. Something about her seemed familiar to me. I passed my hand over my forehead—but it was useless. I bowed low and started to walk out, but she seized me by the arm, calling my name, pleadingly. Her soft brown hair was all loose and hanging, and her big eyes swimming; her whole body trembled so ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... not leave until thou hast become acquainted with Cedric of Crandlemar." He held out his hand to her longingly, pleadingly, and stood thus before her; his figure of an Adonis silhouetted by the flames that reached above his head in the great chimney behind him. His face and form was a match for her own. A hunting-coat wrapped his broad shoulders; his beauteous limbs were encased ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne
... suspiciously. "But of course you might do it just a little," she said, pleadingly—"just to make them go on loving you, don't ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
... her eyes as she looked up pleadingly in his face, and the editor sighed and paused a ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans
... Tomaso's brother's voice came pleadingly from behind Johnny. "You can feex him easy. She's fine ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... But I had to do it, dearest," he went on pleadingly. "Honor—you told me so yourself, here, in this very spot; I remember your words; do you not recall them?—'If I stood in the pathway of liberty for a single instant I should despise the man who would not sweep me aside without a moment's hesitation.' ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... sought her swelling bosom gropingly; and his eyes, as they looked pleadingly even into mine, shot into my heart ...
— Under the Andes • Rex Stout
... regions, which in that orb none else could discern, the rays that parted from the all-guarding Eye; and heard the VOICE of the Eternal One bidding him act as his pity whispered. He looked on the spirit, and her shadowy arms stretched pleadingly towards him; he uttered the word that loosens the bars of the gate of Purgatory; and lo, the spirit had re-entered the ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... head bent and appealing to her sideface, like one pleadingly in pursuit, and very deferentially, with a courteous vehemence, he entreated first her ladyship's pardon for his presumption, and then the gift of her ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... 'em out, then, and replace 'em with pebbles, so that I won't feel above my station in life?" asked the cat, pleadingly. ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... on Barlow's arm and her eyes were lifted pleadingly to his: "You must go, Sahib—mount your horse and ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser
... riveted upon you, hoping that you will be brave and wise enough to take such action as will fully atone for all the horrors of the past and secure for us every right due to all honorable, loyal, law-abiding citizens of the United States. Pleadingly they look to you to extract the arrow of shame which hangs quivering in every bosom, ...
— Imperium in Imperio: A Study Of The Negro Race Problem - A Novel • Sutton E. Griggs
... continued pleadingly, "that there was no excuse for me and girls like me. Maybe you would find one if you knew what we are up against. Every one knocks instead of boosts, and tells us how low-down we are. Just as if a mirror were held up to an ugly-looking girl, ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... Before I left he pleadingly besought me never to pass by a saloon in my canvassing tours, for I little knew the good my presence might bring about. I have faithfully followed his advice, ever buoyed by the hope of some equally happy result, and never having met with an indignity ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms
... her mother pleadingly. "Why must I go to Mistress Stoddard's?" she questioned. "I have run all the way home, and you know she will not blame Anne; it will be me she will question and blame. Oh, dear!" and Amanda, sure that her evil plan would be discovered, began to ...
— A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony • Alice Turner Curtis
... white hand to his heart, looked hesitatingly and pleadingly in her face for an instant, and then, drawing her gently to his bosom, sealed their ...
— Hidden Hand • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... man came over and took both her hands in his own with a half-savage affection. "Loraine," he said pleadingly, "I wanted to dance with you tonight. I searched high and low, but I couldn't find you. For my part I have spent a very ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... can clear me," she replied. "She knows, and of course she will tell Miss Richards when she hears that they are accusing me. You believe me; don't you, father?" she asked again, looking up at him pleadingly. ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... be friends, Miss Charteris?" he said, pleadingly. "Whatever comes you will not give ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme
... make her the co-heir with my young brother, Paul Douglass, of all I possess. Say, Edith, can you trust your child to me?" He spoke earnestly, fervently, taking her hand and pressing it, and gazing pleadingly into ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... her, his eyes fixed on hers, the whole cloud of misapprehension under which she had acted was revealed to her as by a beam of divine light from heaven. Smitten to the heart by a sudden and overwhelming remorse, Hetty was speechless. She could only look pleadingly into his ...
— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous
... he murmurs, quick and low, "I see that a blunder has been made, but I don't believe the others saw it. Give me just a few minutes. Come down the walk with me. I cannot talk with you here—now, and there is so much I want to say." He bends over her pleadingly, but her eyes are fixed far away up the dark wooded valley beyond the white shafts of the cemetery, gleaming in the first beams of the rising moon. She makes no reply for a moment. She does not withdraw them when ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... of the hardness left his expression. A look of haunting fear took its place and he stared pleadingly ...
— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various
... have to go by myself. And if you don't go, too, I think you'll be awfully sorry. I think you will. Oh, Hosy," pleadingly, "please go with me. I don't ask you to do many things, now do I? I do ask you to ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... this town. I only know that I want to go to Overton College more than I ever wanted anything else in my life. Do you suppose there's a chance for me to live at Harlowe House and study? I've walked over a hundred miles to find out," finished the queer little stranger pleadingly. ...
— Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus • Jessie Graham Flower
... it?" she cried. "You are driving me crazy with your evasions." Pleadingly, "You must ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... rising to his feet. 'Hurrah! Robin herself! O Robin a Bobbin, isn't this jolly?' and Robina was entangled in that wonderful embrace peculiar to their own two selves, too ecstatic for a word between them, though as she received her sister's kiss, she spoke rather pleadingly—'Cherry and Sister Constance said I might, Wilmet; and Mrs. Harewood was so very kind as to send Willie to fetch me to spend Sunday. Do ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Yorke pleadingly, as he saw the general taking leave, and prepared to accompany him. "Surely you will not deny ...
— An Unwilling Maid • Jeanie Gould Lincoln
... Cowperwood and his mother, who was near him. She had removed from her arm the black satin ribbon which held her train and kicked the skirts loose and free. Her eyes gleamed almost pleadingly for all her hauteur, like a spirited collie's, and her ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... he thought any one could for any reason whatever come between him and Tessibel Skinner. He did not concede it now in its fullness, but Madelene was looking pleadingly into his face and had spoken of his mother with tender sympathy. He suddenly reached out and took her hand. He would tell her of his young wife. He would take her into his confidence right then, and all would be well for them ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... girl pleadingly, I settled myself by the edge of the pool to await the second and more momentous part of ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various
... that name!" he pleaded. He made no effort at denial. There was that in the girl's eyes which told him that her recognition had been absolute. "I've been hidin' it for years." He spoke pleadingly. "Look hyar. I've got everythin' that heart can wish. Joe Lorey, I'll save you from them men. I'll sw'ar I saw you leave the stable afore th' fire begun." He moved his eyes from one of the accusing faces to the other, terrified. "I'll make ye both rich ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
... quaint little companion leans forward, and, putting his two hands pleadingly on the swathed knees, wants to speak but cannot. Slowly the sick man lets down his own and covers them. And so, hand resting on hand, ...
— Angels & Ministers • Laurence Housman
... him pleadingly. He was speaking a little like Harry; she had noticed during the last week that he had several things in common with his father—little things, the way that he wrinkled his forehead, pushed back his hair with his hand; she was not sure that ...
— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole
... the truth," says Stella, pleadingly. Her face, showing over billows of bedclothes, is as pale as they. But beautiful, and exceedingly beautiful, is Stella's face, now that she is come ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... be for long!" And she held out her two hands—pleadingly. Meryon took them, and they stared at each other—while the Rector was conscious of a flash ...
— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... free and independent subject, sir, an English gentleman. I demand that you order your men to release me. For heaven's sake," he added, pleadingly, "give me but ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle
... reconciliation was merely the first excuse on which Apollonius had seized. That was why he was so meek. That was why his wife was frightened—she had been trying to make him believe that Apollonius never came into the room. That was why she looked up at him so pleadingly. The contemptuous gaze with which she had just measured him had suddenly been torn from her consciously guilty face with the mask of pretended innocence. Now he knew with certainty: there was no longer anything to prevent; nothing remained to him but retribution. Now he could show his brother ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... up and made an impulsive step forward. "Oh, don't!" she cried out pleadingly. "Don't ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... Morris pleadingly, 'I am in a very weak state, and I beg your consideration for a kinsman. Say it slowly again, and be sure you are correct. ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... left the little girl's face. She raised her head, and her brown eyes looked pleadingly into the master's, her white face besought him, for one second. Then she scrambled up to the form by the aid of the desk in front ...
— An Australian Lassie • Lilian Turner
... He gazed pleadingly toward Betty, but she had put an arm about her mother—Allen noticed with joy that it trembled a little—and was leading the way toward the rear of the house, and out upon the lawn, where the big tent ...
— The Outdoor Girls in Army Service - Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys • Laura Lee Hope
... I'm all right. (Eagerly.) But you, Stephen? How are you? (Excitedly.) Oh, it's good to see you again! (Her eyes continue fixed on his face pleadingly, questioningly.) ...
— The Straw • Eugene O'Neill
... know how we would stand behind you—how anxious we are to share whatever's worrying you!" Alice went on, pleadingly. "Can't you—I'm not busy like Annie, or young like Leslie, and Chris is your man of business, after all! Can't you tell us about it? Two heads—three heads," said Alice, smiling through a sudden mist of tears, "are ...
— The Beloved Woman • Kathleen Norris
... reasonable?" he continued, pleadingly. "You know there is plenty of food. I have observed it being brought into town in huge wagon-loads in the early morning on many occasions. Why do you want to eat it all at one sitting? No one's going to starve you. Why ...
— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson
... small, beguiling voice, "perhaps this poor man has his pride of an artist. You see, I have a fellow feeling!" She smiled pleadingly, yet mischievously, and turned an explanatory glance on the cure. "I was an artist, and I should so love to know what is ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson |
