Example Sentences

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Violet's face is crimsoned to its utmost capacity, and her eyes have that awful beseechingness that cuts him to the soul.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

The girl to whom he had been engaged had died, and that had left a kind of sweetness, almost beseechingness, in his manner, very engaging in so tall and strong a man.

From Aladdin O'Brien by Morris, Gouverneur