Underneath a throne is a figure in a suppliant posture, with hands and face uplifted. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A suppliant for her favors. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
To make the man a suppliant is the delight of her soul. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference
I stand before thee, thy sovereign, thy suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
To whom the suppliant queen her pray'rs address'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Her constant drink: when suppliant she would raise. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Silent she continued in the posture of a suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Nor suppliant crowd, with trembling limbs low bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
From shrine to shrine my suppliant knees should crawl. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
“With suppliant voice require; Pallas will grant.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
Be gracious unto Indra who is a suppliant before you. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
"It is I," exclaimed the empress, in a suppliant voice. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
She had never been able to resist that suppliant voice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Now in this hour I was suppliant for these two brothers. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
Stood motionless and suppliant, in sackcloth rudely clothed. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
A Chorus from Colonus comes to find out who the suppliant is. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Ireland stands at your bar, expectant, hopeful, almost suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
But the suppliant at the door has taken the matter much to heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Jupiter: soon after, the victorious Bacchus pardoned the suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
But since thou art my suppliant and my kinswoman, no further ill shall. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
She continued to regard him with the same suppliant and affrighted air. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Should an unfortunate and suppliant King be treated with so much rigour?. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
But she wore no more the suppliant air which at first distinguished her. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
Eurystheus, even if he came as a suppliant, should drive out their suppliants. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
A miserable suppliant, he stood before the stranger's door, knocked, and entered. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
God's own chosen and redeemed people correspond to the suppliant widow in the parable. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Thither shall I a suppliant be for a fog wrapper and rain hat; my warrant I shall roll. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
"Fred! my dear Fred" -- Jacqueline had suddenly become almost tender, almost suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We learn here, then, that the Hearer of prayer puts himself in the power of a suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
She came in, in answer to the Principal's "Come," and stood, a suppliant, in the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Glory and the Other Girl] Reference
She, poor, bedraggled, complaining suppliant, a beggar where she should have been a queen!. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
The doctor looked down from his goodly height upon the stooping shoulders of the suppliant. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Oh, why am I the suppliant slave of this cold stranger? why cannot I entice him to my arms?. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
He sails to Argos and lays suppliant boughs on the altars of the gods, imploring protection. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Often the reader is impatient to inform the loud-voiced suppliant that Baal has gone a-hunting. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
"And where did the ceremony take place?" asked Dorsenne, obeying the almost suppliant injunction. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The man who is catching up cringes instead of standing erect, he is suppliant instead of dominant. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars and Sense] Reference
"Mary," he asked, in a tone of suppliant tenderness, "Mary, you weep, and yet you say you love me?". From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
The Queen returns without her finery, attired as a suppliant; she bids the Chorus call up Darius, while she offers libations to the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
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