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Moving about the stage with feline grace, passing with a kind of visceral instinct through moods that were supplicating and menacing, aggressive and sweet, she achieved one of the great A�das of operatic history.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the station I came across the remnants of the Milan Opera Company which had been stranded some fortnight previously, and whose members were supplicating aid towards getting to New York.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

A shell has struck its base, and over the town at right angles to the tower leans the Virgin imploringly holding the babe outstretched as though she were supplicating its protection.

From "Over There" with the Australians by Knyvett, R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh)

She then threw her arms imploringly and tenderly about his neck, and looking into his eyes as if she were supplicating for immortal salvation at his hands, she said, "Oh, papa, have compassion on me."

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

He made an astonishing picture, with his thin arms outstretched in support, as though he were supplicating the white man's god.

From Aliens by McFee, William