supplicating

Example Sentences

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Supplicating eyes were cast upward, but when my prayer was breathed, I once more wildly gazed at the door.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

Supplicating bountiful blessings on the manifold enterprises energetically and devotedly conducted by the exemplary American Bahá’í Community.

From Citadel of Faith by Shoghi Effendi

Supplicating with redoubled ardor a further measure of Bahá’u’lláh’s sustaining grace, surpassing the conspicuous blessings already vouchsafed to His wholly-dedicated, widely-scattered, forward-marching warriors since the launching of the Ten Year Plan.

From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi

While the frogs' grave litanies Drowse in far-off antiphone, Supplicating, till the eyes Of dead friendships, long alone In the dusky corners,—rise.

From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

Her dark hair had fallen loose upon her shoulder, and she stood the very id�al of the "Madonna Supplicating."

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Lever, Charles James