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Since thou has bared thy fell intent to us I, loving thee, and helping in their need Man's laws, adjure thee, dream not of this deed!

From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes

A secret, Albert," she replied, with much solemnity,--"a profound secret, which I adjure you not to reveal.

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

I adjure you, by all which a man of honour holds most sacred, to quit England the moment your health will allow you to sail.

From Leonora by Edgeworth, Maria

Jeremiah, I adjure you, Leave me not again.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan

To "adjure" was to call upon a person to speak the truth in the Name of God.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary

"Let's not look like we're flying," she adjures, flapping her elbows.

From Time Magazine Archive

"For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train!"

From Time Magazine Archive

When the mother leaves the house with her babe, she adjures the spirits to follow and to guard their ward.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.

He adjures me to have pity, if not upon him, at all events upon his innocent Clara.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

By all that is sacred, by all to you tender, Your country adjures, arise and defend her!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus adjured and fortified, the Chamber got down to cases Tuesday afternoon in one of the longest luncheon sessions on convention records.

From Time Magazine Archive

"More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world."

From Time Magazine Archive

A Tokyo girl clerk adjured him: "Hatoyama-san, please be consistent in your austerity program."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus adjured, they returned to the task, and at the signal from Reddy, wrenched and tore frantically at the inert mass that appeared to mock their puny efforts.

From Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball by Duffield, J. W.

But before adjuring court, Orbus reminded Strauss-Kahn that the bail was not meant as a punishment, but to ensure that he appeared at the required hearings and did not flee justice.

From Time ● Jul. 1, 2011

For some 20 years he has been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The classic manuals, written by starchy Englishmen and rock- ribbed Yankees, try to take all the fun out of writing, grimly adjuring the writer to avoid offbeat words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Adjuration, ad-jōōr-ā′shun, n. the act of adjuring: the charge or oath used in adjuring.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

At this juncture the innkeeper entered with half-a-dozen others, and kept dancing about, adjuring us to stop, but offering no help.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)