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His duty was to admonish and exhort, to adjure his flock to quit the error of their ways.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis

But whoever you are, whoever finds this paper, I beg of you, I implore you, I adjure you, do not tell a word of it to Dora.

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen

Then the Syrian would solemnly adjure him, or threaten him if he were obstinate, and so drive him out.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

"I put you under gesa" means, I adjure you solemnly, so solemnly that you dare not disobey.

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

If Adrienne would adjure her allegiance to the stage and banish all earthly thoughts, he would absolve her and would grant her the rite of Extreme Unction.

From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

"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

Ye Ajaces, leaders of the brazen-mailed Greeks, the beloved son of Jove-nourished Peteus adjures you to come thither, that ye may participate in his toil, though for a short time.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley

Irene, touched by his grief, bids him not give way to despair, but adjures him to make a last attempt to regain his old ascendency over the minds of the fickle people.

From Stories of the Wagner Opera by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

The slightest intimation of a heart should be understood; it does not reciprocate a passion that continually adjures the object beloved to explain herself more clearly.

From Don Garcia of Navarre by Molière

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

Good-humoredly, he adjured photographers to picture his "bad" eye as well as his good.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus adjured, Laura put on her hat and walked slowly to the front of the store with the magnifying glass in her hand.

From The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors by Gertrude W. Morrison

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

In the mean time the commotion rather increased in the house, and he could hear in the distance a voice adjuring some one to go for the clergyman.

From The Rector by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

There was something indescribably wild and weird in those appealing, tempestuous tones, now rising as in frenzy, and now falling as with exhaustion—beseeching, adjuring, reproaching.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree