What was asked for was at first refused, but was only granted after the entreaty.    From LearnThat.org. 

An entreaty to stop the fighting.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Please, please don't, dear cuckoo, she exclaimed, dancing about with her hands clasped in entreaty, but her eyes still firmly closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cuckoo Clock] Reference

The entreaty was the entreaty of a child, a frightened, bewildered child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Woman] Reference

However, Merv ignores the entreaty, which is held in front of his face, and heads downstairs.    From Wordnik.com.  ['S Wonderful, 'S Mervelous!] Reference

"Oh, no, Master Mott, don't do that, I beg and pray of you," said nurse, all but wringing her hands in entreaty.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Carrots": Just a Little Boy] Reference

There was a note in his voice which couldn't be called entreaty, but was far from a direct orderand I was accustomed only to orders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Money]

She held out her hands to him with a kind of entreaty not to say so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perpetual Curate] Reference

"entreaty" had intoxicated her with very different power from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Blomberg — Complete] Reference

"entreaty" had intoxicated her with very different power from the Malmsey at Herr Peter's table, and show herself worthy of his approval.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

Her voice was suddenly shaken with passionate entreaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

"Marsa!" repeated Michel, in a humble tone of entreaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The tapping was discreet, full of entreaty and delicacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

And my excellent wife, after much entreaty, consented thereto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

She could sense the sudden passionate entreaty behind the words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

When the verb is used to express a command or entreaty it is in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

She shakes her head, and repeats the passionate gesture of entreaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gray Nun] Reference

"But Daddy wants to read," expostulated Mother, in a tone of entreaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

But before his entreaty was ended, one-half of her companions had fainted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

There was a peculiar look in its eyes that seemed full of pathos and entreaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

"Oh, come now, Wade," said Bonbright, with good-natured entreaty in his voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

Hoffmann by earnest entreaty succeeds in gaining Antonia's promise never to sing any more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Judah's entreaty to Joseph for Benjamin's safe return to his father, and the effect it produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference

He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

No man that ever lived required less entreaty to oblige his convivial friends with his charming singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference

Seeing that neither strategy nor entreaty would serve my purpose, I suddenly turned and seized him by the arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

To depart from iniquity is that which pleaseth the Lord, and to depart from injustice, is an entreaty for sins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

He looked up at Ridgar with a look that cut that good man's heart, so full was it of wild entreaty and piteous grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

And while her lips said "I implore you," in a tone of gracious entreaty, her look said, with terrible emphasis, "You must!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Hill, were retold, and by dint of entreaty and expostulation the distressed inhabitants were led to go to work to patch up the ruins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference

A note of information and entreaty to fashion editors, advertisers, copywriters and other well-intentioned mis-users of our Chanel name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chanel Tells Editors Not To Use Name In Vain In Full Page Ad] Reference