She was unpleasantly conscious that she had been on the verge of speaking as "one of the foolish women speaketh"—telling first and entreating silence after.
Morland had been always kindly disposed towards each, and instantly, pleased by his appearance, received him with the simple professions of unaffected benevolence; thanking him for such an attention to her daughter, assuring him that the friends of her children were always welcome there, and entreating him to say not another word of the past.
She spoke to Henry Tilney on the subject, regretting his brother's evident partiality for Miss Thorpe, and entreating him to make known her prior engagement.
CHAPTER 15 Early the next day, a note from Isabella, speaking peace and tenderness in every line, and entreating the immediate presence of her friend on a matter of the utmost importance, hastened Catherine, in the happiest state of confidence and curiosity, to Edgar's Buildings.
Thorpe, however, would see her to her chair, and, till she entered it, continued the same kind of delicate flattery, in spite of her entreating him to have done.
He looked ashamed and entreating, like a guilty but devoted dog.
China continues to emphasize marriage in its official media, entreating women not to wait for Mr Right.
Positivity, on the other hand, is often wrongly viewed as puny, entreating, and even feeble-minded.
" And after telling some stories to prove his point, he ended by entreating them to let him stay and make a fourth at their dinner.
The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King.
