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"Give 'em a prayer, parson," said he; "but be brief, I adjure you, for we must up anchor and be off."

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton

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, in the name of the friendship you have up to this moment shown me, to explain yourself clearly.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

To have to discuss, argue, explain, threaten, adjure, only in order to get back to the point from which nobody ought ever to have started, was the silliest of all silly necessities.

From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim

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 Maria Edgeworth

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She tells him how they whom he has left all love him, encourages him with virtue and piety, adjures him to be true to his best self.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

"Madame has declared that henceforth she adjures all intrigue."

From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Felix summons Polyeuctes to an interview, and adjures him to be a prudent man.

From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson

One William McAndrew, writing in the November World's Work, adjured me to compose verses that, if memorized, would serve as a reminder to children to be careful when crossing the streets.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who has often adjured the press not to give away secrets, finally told correspondents why one of his own magazine articles let a cat out of a bag.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Now don’t give another thought to that gang of crooks!” he adjured her.

From Out of the Air by Inez Haynes Gillmore

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

Shane's voice could be plainly detected adjuring his guests to abstain from needless noise, since the countess lay ill.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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 S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats