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Mrs. Brimmer cast a supplicatory look at Miss Keene, and hastily quitted the room.

It was the whine of the Hindu beggar, halting, supplicatory, almost revoltingly servile.

Bessie launched a supplicatory glance at madame, then hazarded a doubtful consent, which did not provoke a denial.

I was about to reply, but Owen looked at me with such a supplicatory and warning gesture, that I was involuntarily silent.

None of them were in a supplicatory style: the Emperor already spoke as a master; he did not entreat, he commanded.

The supplicatory force of the names, however, is clear, whatever may be the account of the formal anomalies.

Mrs. Chadwick spoke with a supplicatory note very unlike her usual placid if complaining authority.

ADRIENNE TONERANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK

He was called and introduced and the request put to him by Jannish, in his most elaborate and supplicatory style.

The lights at the altar burnt dimly in his eyes—the loud antiphon and the supplicatory prayer fell upon a listless ear.

THE LANCASHIRE WITCHESWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

The letter written by him to Vergennes on this occasion is one of his supplicatory masterpieces.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985