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[Then pleadingly.] Sair--just only one leetle moment!"

She wanted him to reassure her; she looked at him pleadingly, not daring to ask for words of comfort but with all her nerves astrung to receive them: he had none to offer her.

"I think," said Tarzan to Numa, "that you and I together can make these beasts very unhappy." He spoke in English, which, of course, Numa did not understand at all, but there must have been something reassuring in the tone, for Numa whined pleadingly and moved impatiently to and fro parallel with their antagonists.

And, oh, Anne" -- she reached out and caught Anne's hand pleadingly, impulsively -- "I don't want to die.

He whined pleadingly, and scurried playfully in and out of the underbrush.

Her eyes were raised to his, very softly yet almost pleadingly.

Tulliver, pleadingly, "drink your wine, and let me give you some almonds and raisins."

'Let me think - let me think,' he said, aloud, impatiently, even pleadingly, as if to some merciless interrupter.

John glanced at her pleadingly, a stricken look on his face.

I'm looking expectantly, hopefully, pleadingly at 12-yearold SAINT ARE, a horse who has been placed in two of the last three runnings of this race.

n after the National hop yea b I'm looking expectantly, hopefully, pleadingly at 12-year-old SAINT ARE, a horse who has been placed in two of the last three runnings of this race.

Have you ever been in an animal shelter, and one little kitten came up and looked pleadingly into your eyes?

Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn is pleadingly pathetic and American star Rooney Mara expertly suggests a torrent of emotion under a fragile facade.

Most problematically, claims for legal relevance often seem tacked on, reflexively or pleadingly. "If Val [Xavier] represents just one important truism about the law," O'Connor writes, "it is that a variety of sexual experience leads, almost necessarily, to the fugitive life.

"O take the advice of one that wishes you well," he pleadingly concluded his lengthy letter.