Example Sentences

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My Lord, the dukes of Norfolk and of Suffolk, Accompanied with the Bishop of Winchester, Entreats you to come presently to Lambeth, On earnest matters that concerns the state.

From Cromwell by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

And when the solemn deep church-bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, The shadows sweep away.

From The Heir of Redclyffe by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

And then the solemn and deep church-bell Entreats the soul to pray, The midnight phantoms feel the spell, The shadows sweep away.

From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret

Here at thy feet thy leading captains lie; And here thy monarchs, and a suppliant world Entreats thee prostrate for thy kinsman's fall.

From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

A veteran see! whose last act on the stage Entreats your smiles for sickness and for age; Their cause I plead, plead it in heart and mind, A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

From Yesterdays with Authors by Fields, James T.