“When Greece her knees in suppliance bent,” when he stuck there.
She turned away, unable to withstand the suppliance of his eyes.
On the contrary, he was all softness, all suppliance—a wooer!
And with arms still raised in suppliance for his great unselfish soul, he sprang out backward to the darkening sea.
The colonel had brushed it aside with rough hand and sharp word; the major had come penitent and in suppliance.