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We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated54 ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

From America First Patriotic Readings by McBrien, Jasper Leonidas

During all these years the suffering have supplicated; the withered lips of famine have prayed; the pale victims have implored, and heaven has been deaf and blind.

From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Having acquainted us with this deplorable state of affairs, and knowing our paternal solicitude, they have supplicated us to come to their rescue in this their hour of spiritual need.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.

We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

I have supplicated you, and you have turned a deaf ear to my prayer!

From The Missing Bride by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte