pleaded

"He attacked me like the low ruffian that he is," pleaded Halbert, in extenuation.

"And do say something cheerful, dear," pleaded Avice, at parting.

"Girls, if you only knew how terribly this embarrasses me," pleaded Grace.

He pleaded eloquently for the retention of the small boroughs.

Carlotta Harrison pleaded a headache, and was excused from the operating-room and from prayers.

The nurses' rooms were subject to inspection, and she had pleaded a headache.

"Let me help," pleaded Mrs. Porter, speaking for the first time.

She listened patiently while he pleaded his cause with much mastery.

"I've an aversion to your eloquent old heathen," she pleaded.

"Don't send Mom Beck with me," she pleaded, when the time came to start.