"Pleadingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... board! The clatter brought up grandma, and I felt some doubts about her relishing a kind of play which savored so much of what she called "a racket," but the soft brown eyes which looked at her so pleadingly were too full of love, gentleness, and mischief to be resisted, and permission for "one more ride" was given, "provided she'd promise not to ...
— Homestead on the Hillside • Mary Jane Holmes
... She looked pleadingly into his eyes, but he was speechless. At last by a mighty effort he turned with a sickly smile ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... earnestly and half-pleadingly, "I wish you'd put her against that Y-Bar outfit's Thunderbolt horse in the two-mile sweepstakes this year! It ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman
... this religious merit." Pratap smiled pleadingly as he held out a bundle of rupee notes and two tickets, just purchased, ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... wooden box!" screamed Daria. "Oh, let's go at once! Come, Var-Vara! What a surprise for papa when he gets back! Is it the wooden box? You might tell me," cried Daria, fixing her blue eyes on the old mujik's face pleadingly. ...
— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry
... but Deborah Read come to say to you—to say to you—that she should have remembered that you were a stranger in a city full of strangers. (Pleadingly.) Indeed, indeed I did not mean to hurt you! I do not mind your rusty clothes; I do not mock your—your faded hat. I—I have been full of foolish pride. Will you ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay
... me to call upon you this evening?" asked the Insect, pleadingly, as he bade the wearer of the gown good-bye on ...
— The Woggle-Bug Book • L. Frank Baum
... 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
... 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, Complete • Georges Ohnet
... your candy and you ain't my sister, and I won't go back. You'll beat me, and mom'll beat me and everybody else'll beat me. Don't let her take me back, please don't," Glen concluded, turning his face pleadingly toward ...
— Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes - The Quest of a Summer Vacation • Stella M. Francis
... dozen Americans had succeeded in reaching the roof the fight was over, for the few Mexicans still able to fight suddenly threw down their rifles, shouting pleadingly: ...
— Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz • H. Irving Hancock
... said Emily pleadingly to Sophy—'now could I let him go back again alone, when he came so helpless, ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... 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 ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... were offered up that night on behalf of Paddy. I distinctly heard Felix—who always said his prayers in a loud whisper, owing to some lasting conviction of early life that God could not hear him if he did not pray audibly—mutter pleadingly, after the "important" part of his devotions was over, "Oh, God, please make Pat better by the ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... said. "I don't believe it was her fault. Never will! No, it was just one of those things—" He emptied his lungs with a great breath of nervousness and sympathy. "Now, we want you to-night—" he began, pleadingly. ...
— Sisters • Kathleen Norris
... "Father," she said pleadingly, "the Greek physician gave this to me. He told me it was an Eastern charm to keep the lives of those who wore it. Will you wear ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... I spoke passionately, pleadingly. She turned her head to reply, and I was bending my head so as not to miss a word when a subtle power seized me. I did not wait for her reply, but turned my head in ...
— Weapons of Mystery • Joseph Hocking
... lower deck, behind the boilers, lay twenty wounded prisoners, who at first looked sulky; but as I was stepping over and among them, one caught my dress, looked up pleadingly, ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
... moment, his mind wandered. "Just a little link," he whispered almost pleadingly, and lay quite still, but presently he was ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... little girl," she read and then stopped and looked from one to the other pleadingly. "I can't do it; I can't read it ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... should we not wait for you? You never did send us away all forlorn before!" she said, pleadingly. "We are all quite well, and I can't bear going ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... She spoke pleadingly, and for a moment Jock looked puzzled. He only understood a portion of what she was saying, but he realized that she was in some ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... "Yes! she will not find her way to England without some trouble!" she exclaimed. "Oh, how happy I shall be! And you"—she looked pleadingly at her mistress—"you do not dislike me ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... presently, pleadingly, "if I may see him just once again! If I just don't have to lose him all at once!" She ran then across the room to another window, through which she whistled shrilly at the negro man dozing in the succulent grass in front of ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... upward pleadingly, caught her breath, threw the back of her hand against her temple, and dashed it again to ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable
... 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 compliance; ...
— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris
... 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 ...
— Mayflower (Flor de mayo) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... me 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 ...
— Brave Tom - The Battle That Won • Edward S. Ellis
... to change his mind as what we have," said Wixy. "Didn't we tell him we was goin' East ourselves? Maybe he ain't lookin' for steady company any more than we be. Maybe he come this way to get away from us, like we did to get away from—say!—Sandlot," he said almost pleadingly, "you don't really think old White-Whiskers was a-trailin' us, do you? You ain't got a ...
— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler
... 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
... a 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 ...
— Lavender and Old Lace • Myrtle Reed
... pleadingly on his arm, and he released her. "I will tell you," she said tremulously, keeping her face upturned to his. "At least, I will try. But it's ...
— The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... uplifted gaze of a Federal officer, I think a colonel of an Illinois regiment, who was lying desperately wounded, shot through the body and both legs, his dead horse lying on one of his shattered limbs. A cannon-ball had passed through his horse and both of his own knees. He looked pleadingly for a drink, but hesitated to ask it of an enemy, as he supposed me to be. I came up to him, and said, "You seem to be badly wounded, sir; will ...
— Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army • William G. Stevenson
... hardly of me!" she said, pleadingly,—"I've told you frankly just how I feel,—and you can imagine how glad I shall be when this yachting trip ...
— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli
... shoulder Giovanni was making an unmistakable demand for silence. "I'm very sorry," Nina faltered—Giovanni was looking at her intensely, pleadingly, his finger on his lips—"but I—never felt like that before. I got terribly—nervous, and I felt that if I did not get away from that house I should go mad." Even the recollection made Nina look so distraught that her aunt's indignation turned to anxiety, and she put her arm around the ...
— The Title Market • Emily Post
... hit bad—in the shoulder—" Drew looked pleadingly from one to the other—"when we smashed into that brush he was pushed right out of the saddle, not far from that crick where you found me. Injun, he could still be out there ...
— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton
... his grave, stern face two or three times, then said humbly, pleadingly, "Papa, please may I put my ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... her. She freed one hand and laid it pleadingly, caressingly, against his neck. "Oh, Dicky," ...
— The Obstacle Race • 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 not as complex as human's. I can even ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans
... her mother to repeat that word almost indefinitely—a soothing word when uttered by another, a riveting together of the shattered fragments of the world. But Mrs. Hilbery, instead of repeating the word love, said pleadingly: ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... a pair of blue, innocent eyes which once looked pleadingly in his—of two tiny arms that were once wound fondly around his neck. Those eyes haunted him into the misty realm of dreams, where myriads of little arms were stretched out to him; and he turned restlessly on his pillow. Ah, Flint, there is an invisible and ...
— Daisy's Necklace - And What Came of It • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... strong tremor passed through her. Thinking it was with fear and with cold, he undid his overcoat, put her close on his breast, and covered her as best he could. That she feared him at that moment was half pleasure, half shame to him. Pleadingly he hid his face on her shoulder, held her very tightly, till his face grew hot, buried against her ...
— The Trespasser • D.H. Lawrence
... pleadingly. "You don't understand. I am not going to slave. I'm just going to be a sort of mother to them. And you oughtn't to call them snobs. They ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... wronged me less than you do if you say to me that you 'know enough!' You do not know enough. You must know all. Rick, you have said you loved me. You have made me love you. You shall hear me now!" She spoke not pleadingly, ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... with papa and started to go, but paused half-way to the door. "This is for Felix and Betty, as well as for myself, father," he said pleadingly. "They feel just as badly as I do about you, but we thought 'twas best for one to speak for the three; and I being the ...
— We Ten - Or, The Story of the Roses • Lyda Farrington Kraus
... is all sure. We have leased the house for one year; and we can't move in until our furniture comes, of course. But I do long to see what the place is like, don't you?" replied Mercy, pleadingly. ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson
... 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 finally she ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... standing under the pyramidal cedars, looking down at the new grave, where Salome's wreath hung on the head-board, and hearing approaching footsteps would have moved away, but he said, pleadingly,— ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson
... fortuitous direction of study or trivial circumstances of travel. With some even admirable persons, one is never quite sure of any particular being included under a general term. A provincial physician, it is said, once ordering a lady patient not to eat salad, was asked pleadingly by the affectionate husband whether she might eat lettuce, or cresses, or radishes. The physician had too rashly believed in the comprehensiveness of the word "salad," just as we, if not enlightened by ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot
... "even as things 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 if you can ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard
... began to swear because we were so ugly, and said if we had been good-looking, he might have sold some of us. Mother watched him anxiously, and fearing some danger to her puppies, ran and jumped in the middle of us, and looked pleadingly up at him. ...
— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders
... of melancholy things on purpose, Fani, and I wish I did not at all," said Elsli, pleadingly. "It is this way. Whenever I begin to think of something very pleasant, then sad thoughts come into my mind, and I keep wondering whether there isn't something that I can do for those in trouble, and then I am ...
— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri
... a tremor in her voice, a pathetic catch in her breath, almost a sob, as she forced herself to speak these words; then bravely, pleadingly, she lifted ...
— Possessed • Cleveland Moffett
... empty; and there is the furniture; and there will be about fifty pounds, perhaps less, when every thing is settled. And we have clothes enough to last some time, and——" here Dulce put her hands together pleadingly, but Phillis looked at her severely, and went on: "Forty or fifty pounds will soon be spent, and then we shall be absolutely penniless; we have no one to help us. Mother will not hear of writing to Uncle Francis; we must ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey
... she continued, almost pleadingly. "We don't know anything—at all. I never have known, and until lately Dick has been too ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... 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
... longer be like home, dear father, when you are far absent," she said to him, pleadingly, a few days before the appointed time for departure had come. "Do not ...
— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur
... eyes that looked so pleadingly into his face! Was she a coquette? But he could only answer as in ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... to take the wood from her arms. "I wish you'd let me do that," he said, pleadingly, as she refused ...
— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland
... he asked, as one who pleadingly opposes an argument that is unreasonable. "Another would replace him, and there is little to choose among the men that ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
... 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 it ...
— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott
... 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
... swept on to 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
... around 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 face, ...
— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous
... she answered, looking up at him very pleadingly as if in hopes that he must relent when he saw her in distress. "Please, won't you take what you want and go away? Please don't disturb mother, it would ...
— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon
... she was not of my mind, I added, pleadingly; "It's a note from me, Georgiana! This is going to be our little private post-office!" Georgiana sank back into her chair. She reappeared with the flush of apple-blossoms and her lashes wet with tears of laughter. But I do not think ...
— Aftermath • James Lane Allen
... blessed solitude. She thought of Eugenia up in her shaded room, stretched on the chaise-longue in a thin silk room-gown, she thought of Neale and his stern eyes . . . she looked down on the dusty, tanned, tousle-headed little boy, with the bandage around his head, his one eye looking up at her pleadingly, his dirty little hand clutching at the fold of her skirt; and drearily and unwillingly she summoned herself to self-control. "All right, Mark, that's true. I could sing while I peel the potatoes. You could wash them for ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... just yet," he said pleadingly; "there is now no reason why you should for a while, is there? Let us sit here in this gorgeous night a little longer, and let me ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... as to the train I am to travel on, for the lady that has just left secured a berth on that train after I had failed," said Eunice pleadingly, for she desired the seclusion of a sleeping car for ...
— The Hindered Hand - or, The Reign of the Repressionist • Sutton E. Griggs
... 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 ...
— Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation • S. D. Gordon
... arm pleadingly, and he shrugged. He groped about for some answer that could be phrased in their language, letting his mind flicker from the modern electronic gadgets back ...
— The Sky Is Falling • Lester del Rey
... nerves were not easily controlled, and he knelt beside her, speaking soothingly and pleadingly. "Dear Madge, dear sister Madge. Oh, I wish Mary was here!" and he kissed her ...
— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe
... to Numa, "that you and I together can make these beasts very unhappy." He spoke in English, which, of course, Numa did not understand at all, but there must have been something reassuring in the tone, for Numa whined pleadingly and moved impatiently to and fro parallel with ...
— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... not very strong, Maria." said Aunty Nan pleadingly, "but I am strong enough for that. Indeed I am. I could stay at Kensington over night with George's folks, you know, and so it wouldn't tire me much. I do so want to hear Joscelyn sing. Oh, how I love ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... laid her hand on his arm and looked into his face pleadingly. "Dick," she said, "you're not ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... should he not have his second chance? He wanted love—not friendship; he wanted—Lynda! All else faded and Lynda, the new Lynda—Lynda with the hair that had learned to curl, the girl with the pretty white shoulders and sweet, kind eyes—stood pleadingly close in the shabby old room and demanded recognition. "She thinks," and here Truedale covered his eyes, "that I am—as I was when I began my life—here! What would she say—if she knew? She, God bless her, is not like others. Faithful, pure, ...
— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock
... from you, my son, by fair means—or—er—legal, if I could." He looked up at Matt, with such a smile as he might have applied to a lovable and well-beloved son. "I hope you've got sporting blood enough in you to realize I didn't really want your little bank roll, Matt," he said half pleadingly. "I don't know just why I did it—except that I'm an old man and I know it; and I hate to be out of the running. I suppose, just because I'm old, I wanted to take a fall out of you—you're so young; and—oh, Matt, you do make a ...
— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne
... painfully. "It did drop, Mr. Sawyer, but it rallied again, as you call it, and when they sold out for me I made nearly five thousand dollars; but," and she looked pleadingly up into Quincy's face, "you have forgiven me for that as well as for ...
— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin
... "Aissa," he said, pleadingly, pressing his lips to a chink between the stakes. "Aissa, do you hear me? Come back! I will do what you want, give you all you desire—if I have to set the whole Sambir on fire and put that fire out with blood. Only come back. Now! At once! Are you there? ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... so very long. Now do keep quiet. And don't think of anything but just home and Nellie," he added, pleadingly. ...
— The Rover Boys in Alaska - or Lost in the Fields of Ice • Arthur M. Winfield
... thought [very tenderly] you might like a piece of that bacon you liked so once, dear. Ah, sweetheart, shall we ever sit down to our little board? Shall we ever see the end of this awful war? Don't you think, dear [very pleadingly], it would be best to give it up? King George is not such a very bad man, is he? I've thought, sweetheart [very confidently], that mayhap you and he might make it all up without the aid of those Washingtons, who do nothing but starve one ...
— Thankful Blossom • Bret Harte
... little girl, laying one hand again pleadingly on his knee; "I didn't mean I mean I was speaking in general I wasn't thinking of myself ...
— Queechy, Volume I • Elizabeth Wetherell
... from her face, leaving her blue eyes staring up at him, filled with a pain which he had never seen in them before. In a moment he knew that she had understood him, and he could have cut out his tongue. Her hand reached his arm, and she stopped him, her face lifted pleadingly, the tears ...
— The Honor of the Big Snows • James Oliver Curwood
... sorry," she said, as if he had caught her stealing jam. The hood had fallen back, and she looked pleadingly at him. She had the appearance of one who was ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie
... eyes. His right leg was uncovered, and supported on a board hung from the ceiling. Its flesh was like that of a chicken badly carved-white, flabby, and in tatters. He thought I was a surgeon, and spoke to me pleadingly: ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... scrubs! They're the ones we're after," Tom exclaimed, jumping up. "You didn't kill 'em, stranger?" he added pleadingly. ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... hesitated, biting her red lips, then with a quick impulse, she lifted her dark eyes to Coquenil. "I must tell you, I have no one else to tell, and I am so distressed, so—so afraid." She caught his hands pleadingly in hers, and he felt that they ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... too much," he began pleadingly. "I guess she kind o' dassent give it to yer, so long afterwards. It's locked,"—as Polly pulled at the cover,—"and there ain't no key," he mourned. "I do' know what Jane's done with it. Yer'll have to git another,—there wa'n't no other way." His ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... stand by that note!" he pleadingly began. "I allow that you will see, when you think of it, that it isn't ...
— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish
... 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
... will a baby brung up in a 'home' have to know about love? How can they ever be learnt of the love of God when they grow up, if they don't learn something about love when they're little. They won't know the word. Don't be so set against it, Mr. Thornton"—she looked at him pleadingly for a moment, then her eyes twinkled—"though it won't do you much good as I'm set on this and I'm goin' to do it. Your late client, Mr. Elias Doane, said, 'Spend my money, Drusilla, in your own way'; and I'm takin' him ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
... but see my mother," she said pleadingly to the jailor. "Do you not think, good sir, that I might? Let me speak to the lieutenant. Surely he ...
— In Doublet and Hose - A Story for Girls • Lucy Foster Madison
... very sorry, and she is to accept my dear love. Will you, Dick?" and Nellie looked pleadingly up ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
... afraid. I have hay the white man will pay me for. If I go, he will not pay me. If I had a father, I would not leave him." He spoke pleadingly, and his prophet bore him down by ridicule. Two Whistles believed, but he did not want to lose the money the agent was to pay for his hay. And so, not so much because he believed as because he was afraid, ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister
... dear," she said pleadingly to the disagreeable little girl, who shook her head and drew back with a stiff ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... best place in the world, if I can find it, and you won't know where we're 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 touched it with ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... in pleadingly, "do not wait for anything. She is really very bad, and I heard her calling for you as I ran out of ...
— The Old Stone House and Other Stories • Anna Katharine Green
... hinges; then her pent-up emotions sought partial relief in action and she ran in crazy circles about the cabin, weaving in and out among the furniture at top speed, running over and under the bunk and leaping over chairs, then brought up in front of Collins and gazed pleadingly up into his face. The Coyote Prophet ...
— The Yellow Horde • Hal G. Evarts
... are thinking, Rex," she said, almost pleadingly. "You are thinking ill of me, and you are unjust. It was as fair for me as it was for you. We played a cautious game. You set about to win my love as you saw fit, my friend, and am I to be condemned if I exercised the same privilege? I was no ...
— The Prince of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... excitement he had forgotten about Howard's presence on the divan behind the screen. A listener might have detected the heavy breathing of the sleeper, but even Alicia herself was too preoccupied to notice it. Underwood extended his arms pleadingly: ...
— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
... 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 that she ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... let 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 I ...
— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris
... in my bed to-night!" she cried pleadingly. "It's so big and lonesome, that I am afraid. I wish it was like your little bed. They were so cunning on the ship. I don't like this one, where you have to go upstairs to get in it. Oh, ...
— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... to leave her place at once," said her mother over and again. "But the doctor's wife has one child after another, and then they ask so pleadingly if she can't stay yet another half-year. They think great things of her; she is so reliable ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... I am not accused of too much modesty; but when I entered and looked on Veranilda—oh, it was the strangest moment of my life! Noble cousin,' he added pleadingly, 'honoured Aurelia, do but tell me what is ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing
... you wouldn't be so cruel!" she whispered pleadingly. "You know what he would think. He—oh, Kit, let them all get settled for the night, and then come down, like a dear, and help me out. I know loads ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... tear her judgment in divers ways; most of all the look in her little son's eyes when he asked that eager, impatient question, "mother, why aren't we rich?" but other and older voices than little Harold's said to her, and they spoke pleadingly enough, "Leave this thing alone; God knows what is best for you. As you have gone on all these years, so continue, not troubling about what you cannot understand, ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... Pleadingly she turned to Isabel. "Darling Mrs. Everard, need you go now? Wait till the morning! It is so late now. It ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... him pleadingly. "Oh, take me with you, Gil!" She threw her arms out. She had nothing to fear now, his strength beside her. She told him in one glorious gesture that she was his forever—that she had surrendered herself, body and soul, to him. Gilbert looked at her. Slowly, he realized ...
— The Bad Man • Charles Hanson Towne
... Apparently she'd never told Muller about the scars she still had from spilled grease, and how she'd never forgiven her mother or been able to go near a kitchen since. But I should have guessed. She could remember my stories, too. Her eyes swung up toward mine pleadingly. ...
— Let'em Breathe Space • Lester del Rey
... 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 ...
— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams
... so close to the waterline that the spray of the tideless sea would dash up and bathe her naked feet, she would wait in all innocence for the coming of the young sailor from Samos. How rapidly those hours used to pass! How pleadingly, on the last evening, he had knelt beside her, with his arm resting upon her knee, and there, gazing up into her face, had asked her for one long tress of hair! How foolish she had been to give it to ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... and Storri moistened his dry lips. His San Reve was such a heathen! The thought parched him. "Whom would you kill, my San Reve?" This came off pleadingly. ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... true King-maker now is—Mrs. GRUNDY, And she insisted that our modern Frogs Should have a King—the woodenest of King Logs. At first this terrified our Frogs exceedingly, And, sometimes passionately, sometimes pleadingly, They grumbled and protested; But finding soon how placidly Log rested Prone in the pool with mighty little motion, Of danger they abandoned the wild notion, Finding it easy for a Frog to jog On with a kind King Log. But in the fulness of the time, there came A would-be monarch—Legion ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891 • Various
... he pleadingly, "don't you ever want to see the sermon again? Shouldn't you like to ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown
... forward in her hands again. The man in the chair looked at her and then turned his eyes pleadingly to the other man, who remained ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... no! don't do that!" she cried pleadingly. "I'll be calm and quiet; indeed, indeed ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley
... Olfan, that is all the tale. We have played the game and we have lost, or so it seems—that is, unless you help us;" and she clasped her hands and looked upon him pleadingly. ...
— The People Of The Mist • H. Rider Haggard
... her from her little horse, and her hands were never tired to be touching him. She was all tremulous with laughter and eager-eyed, and the red was flaming in her cheeks, and she would be ordering Bryde like a queen, but pleadingly withal. ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars
... said Zoe, pleadingly, "do you think there would be any great harm in our—just for ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... wandering from Faith's reproving face, fell on her father, and with a croon of delight a pair of plump dimpled arms was held out pleadingly. "Dad! Dad!" cooed the baby voice coaxingly, and the arms were ...
— Anxious Audrey • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... humbly, almost pleadingly, yet to Benita they seemed as a command. At any rate, with slow reluctance she climbed down the shattered wall, followed by her father, and without speaking they went back to their camping place, all three of them, Jacob ...
— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard
... effort—no mean one—Iemon left the room for a moment. As he came out on the corridor, and was about to return to the guest room, he found the maid O'Moto awaiting him with water and towel. A slight puckering frown came over Iemon's face at this imprudence. Said the girl pleadingly—"Danna Sama, deign to exercise patience. That of the mistress is sorely tried. The absence of the other guests, the pursuit of Kibei Dono, who only seeks to compromise her and secure her expulsion from the house, or even death at the hand of Kwaiba ...
— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville
... 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 ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... was growing less; but still the wild fire blazed in the amber-brown eyes. Once he started to rise, but she pushed him gently back. Again she lifted his head, and looked at him long, pleadingly. ...
— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux
... he made no answer, for indeed he had not heard her; but she was coming toward him now, her hands outstretched in a wondering way, wistfully, pleadingly, as though to hold back a refutation that would change the dawning light upon her face to dismay ...
— The Miracle Man • Frank L. Packard
... or no curiosity in her mind. What was it she had been told or not told, she did not know. Somehow she did not care. She saw a pair of pleading eyes, she saw the colour rise in a man's cheeks. She saw an outstretched hand, held pleadingly to her, and she had ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... myself, if she did not then and there disclose to me either her love or her contempt. I dared all, to win all. She stood pallid and trembling before me, and, as I railed at her, she extended her arms humbly and pleadingly toward me. Oh! she was fair and beautiful as a pardoning angel, with these glistening tears in her wondrous, dreamy eyes, fair and beautiful as a houri of Paradise; when at last, carried away by her own heart, she bowed down and confessed that she loved me; that she would be mine—mine, in ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... "Then what is it?" she cried. "You are driving me crazy with your evasions." Pleadingly, "You must admit ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... so pleadingly that Faith closed her eyes instinctively. It cut her to the heart to ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... pleadingly, as she leaned back in her usual attitude in the chair, and made a sign that I might draw her home, "we will not either of us wear it for the other,—without nor within either, will we?—any more than we can help. Don't you remember what dear mamma said ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various
... I 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
... it at night against the hard back of the carriage, and guard the other all glossy for the wedding." Madame Depine quavered pleadingly, but she could not quite ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill
... little, dismal flat, locked from the outside, deserted within; on the kitchen table, where Big Tom's breakfast dishes are strewn about, is the milk bottle and a cup; the beds are unmade, the sink piled high, and circling the unswept floor wheels Grandpa, whimpering, calling softly and pleadingly, "Johnnie! Little Johnnie! Grandpa wants Johnnie!" And tears are dimming the pale, old eyes, and trickling down into the thin, ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... no clear idea of his intention. She looked up at him pleadingly, but he was staring at the horses, his teeth biting nervously at his under lip. Suddenly he blinked, and she saw his eyes moisten. In the same instant he threw up the rifle. At the thin, vicious ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... pleadingly, "don't you see that we are growing apart? That's the only reason I said what I did. It isn't that I don't trust you, that I don't want you to have your work, that I demand all of you. I know a woman can't ask that,—can't have it. But if you would only give me—give the children just a little, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... she did not shriek, but she stood there rigid and immovable, her countenance giving fearful token of the terrible storm within. She was battling fiercely with her fate, and until twice repeated, she did not hear the childish voice which said to her pleadingly, "Don't look so, sister. You frighten me, and there may ...
— Cousin Maude • Mary J. Holmes |
