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suppliant

noun as in asker

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And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.

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“Your mission will be hard this year,” wrote Anne-Marie, another adult suppliant.

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“I am a suppliant at your knees, O Queen,” he said.

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A priest flocked by suppliant children entreats Oedipus, renowned for his mental prowess, to find the answer that will rescue the city.

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Shooting it frontally, Greene looked up at the timeworn face from the subordinate vantage point of a suppliant.

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