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Entreaties have poured in from top executives at real estate offices, security firms, talent agencies — and from former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2019

Entreaties, threatenings, and caresses, were all employed, in order to prevail upon me to return his goods; and above all, he entreated me not to speak of them to any person.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Maxwell, Patrick

Entreaties and threats were alike in vain, and there was nothing left for Stanley to do but march back with him.

From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Headley, Joel Tyler

Entreaties of the warmest kind from Boswell softened the peevish old lady, to whose pleasure Johnson had referred him.

From Samuel Johnson by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

And what like menaces fatigues, Entreaties, oaths, fictitious fear, Epistles of six sheets or near, Rings, tears, deceptions and intrigues, Aunts, mothers and their scrutiny, And husbands' tedious amity?

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry