entreatingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“Let me see it” requested the young woman, entreatingly.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
“Master,” she said, in a low voice, with her eyes attentively and entreatingly fixed upon him.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
“Let me see it,” requested the young woman, entreatingly.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
She withdrew herself from the eager girl, with something like terror in her eyes, actually moving away till she touched the wall of her narrow parlour, holding up her hands entreatingly.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
My dear Dinah," said Barrington, entreatingly, "imagine a man as wanting in tact as I am,—and as timid, too, about giving casual offence,—conducting such an inquiry as you committed to my hands.
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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