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Entreated for assistance in such words as 'O hasten to my aid!'

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

Entreated to do it again, this prudent rifleman modestly declined, for he remembered Sam Slick's lucky shot at the floating bottle; it was manifestly his wisdom not to risk fame won by a fluke.

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

Entreated you againe to have come behind me.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Entreated to do so, however, and that, too, by my dear grandmother, I went to the back part of the house, to play with them and the other children.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

But for thy sake370 From the Olympian summit I arrive, Lest journeying remote to the abode Of Ocean, and with no consent of thine Entreated first, I should, perchance, offend.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William