request

A request for whiskey addressed to a car containing a dozen men accustomed to wrest metals from the earth was not in vain.

At my request, this young lydy will now perceed to assoom the yew and kimplexion of life itself.

But the people hardly heard him, and at my request he again sat down.

He had persistently refused this request, and now enjoined it upon Barbara to follow his example.

The king received them graciously, and promised to grant them whatever largess they should request.

Only he should have to request a few moments' silence, while she listened for the voice.

Camilla in her heart believed that the half-clerical aspect which her mother had given to the request was false and hypocritical.

I request gentlemen to reflect, whether this is not, in point of fact, an abandonment of the other points in dispute?

In his chests were presents which his sisters had made at his request, in case he should marry in the new settlement.

Although I ought to have seen what was in his mind all the time, his request came almost as a shock to me.