Complain's gesture was angry, but Vyann's was supplicatory. From Wordnik.com. [Starship]
Not the infant Samuel, who, in spite of his supplicatory attitude, found no pity. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
Al'though his words were aggressive, his intonation bordered on the supplicatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
I, your most supplicatory host, am quoted as a "Democratic die-hard" with a team. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Several women are known to have composed one or more of the surviving supplicatory prayers (tkhines). From Wordnik.com. [Old Yiddish Language and Literature.] Reference
As always, to disarm hostile situations, many make their voices supplicatory and call each other cheri. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Bell: "We've Lost the Battle But We Haven't Lost the War": Haiti Six Months After the Earthquake.] Reference
Francis first broke the false speaking-window, then he raised the ladies from their supplicatory posture. From Wordnik.com. [The False Rhyme] Reference
Woman had languished for want of a proper incumbent, -- that is, where the feminine element was always supplicatory, never authoritative. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
As the modern fleet's crew chant the supplicatory hymns of the original voyagers, excerpts from the admiral's journal suggest their mood swings. From Wordnik.com. [Rediscovering America] Reference
The resignation of the MP is compelled by a legally binding "requisition" - not a supplicatory "petition" - which starts with words along these line. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
There was a certain lingual character in the supplicatory expressions he produced, which would well nigh have drawn an ache from the heart of a gate-post. From Wordnik.com. [The Fiddler of the Reels] Reference
A napkin is thrown over the box; and the puppet is thus carried about, and exhibited from door to door, by a boy, the others chanting some supplicatory lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832] Reference
But still we ought to be awake, erect, prepared, armed in our minds, so as not to be deceived by any civil or supplicatory language, or by any pretence of justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
Once more the duke resumed his habit of letter-writing, and epistles both supplicatory and minatory were showered upon the Duchess of Angoulême and the Duchess de Berri. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
The voice will not be raised like in the streets, and a clear tone will be maintained for the homily, but a quiet and supplicatory one for the prayers, solemn if in song. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-03] Reference
I saw that her face was confused and supplicatory. From Wordnik.com. [Best Russian Short Stories] Reference
The redoubled and supplicatory litanies are also beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
"Let me go," he said again, with a look of supplicatory appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
"You cannot see my father, mother," she said in a broken and supplicatory tone. From Wordnik.com. [Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire] Reference
Mrs. Brimmer cast a supplicatory look at Miss Keene, and hastily quitted the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference
"There you are wrong, Captain Disbrowe," returned Pillichody, in a supplicatory tone. From Wordnik.com. [Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire] Reference
His attitude was too humble and the tone of his voice too supplicatory to be resisted. From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
But, as bishop Harold Browne points out, his invocation is rather rhetorical than supplicatory. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
On Sunday, June 22, he writes, begging Dr. Johnson's assistance in framing a supplicatory letter to his Majesty. From Wordnik.com. [Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood] Reference
He was called and introduced and the request put to him by Jannish, in his most elaborate and supplicatory style. From Wordnik.com. [A Beautiful Alien] Reference
The supplicatory part, when we either deprecate and pray against some evil, or request the obtaining of some good. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
None of them were in a supplicatory style: the Emperor already spoke as a master; he did not entreat, he commanded. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I] Reference
On Sunday, June 22, he writes, begging Dr. Johnson's assistance in framing a supplicatory letter to his Majesty. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
Then come really indicative and personal formulæ, often preceded by the supplicatory prayer, "Misereatur tui" etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Hitherto you have failed me, and were I to die to-morrow, who is there to raise the supplicatory censer beside the pyre?. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life Behind the Purdah] Reference
I was about to reply, but Owen looked at me with such a supplicatory and warning gesture, that I was involuntarily silent. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference
Laddie stood and looked into his face with something of the supplicatory appeal that was on the countenance of the man he had just left. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
“anna” is a supplicatory interjection, as in Latin, “heu”, is an exclamation of grief. From Wordnik.com. [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark] Reference
A supplicatory letter, which is astonishing because in it is found a remarkable and wholly unexpected degree of literary talent. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
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