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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 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

Hanúmán saw them sit, he sought A Sál tree's leafy bough and brought The burthen, and with meek request Entreated Lakshmaṇ, too, to rest.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

This is the hour that Madam Silvia Entreated me to call and know her mind: There’s some great matter she’ld employ me in.

From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

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