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Sentence Examples
The text refers to the humble suppliant as Jehu, son of Omri and describes the gifts he brought.
The Logos is an ambassador and suppliant, neither unbegotten nor begotten as are sensible things.
Exhausted, he dragged himself back to the temple in the morning, trying to summon the right words for the next suppliant.
Often they resorted to psychological trickery such as planting a seeming dumb boy to come as a suppliant to the temple and then to recover his voice.
Not even the muddy roads could prevent these people from kneeling in the most humble and suppliant of attitudes.
Moreover, it also implied that Roman territory, whether administered by the army or by suppliant British rulers, was firmly in Aulus Plautius' hands.
Her encouragement enables them to approach God, and sue for grace, bowing on suppliant knee, to receive forgiveness.
As Britain's finances spiraled downward and the nation found itself suppliant to the International Monetary Fund, the seeming stolidity of 1970s London concealed various, often deeply opposed, radical trends.
Examples from Classical Literature
There was nothing humble in her demeanour, nothing which seemed to tell of a suppliant.
Another custom known as dharna is that of a suppliant placing a stone on the shrine of a god or tomb of a saint.
You said you would rather make him a woodchopper than a suppliant to the Bonapartes.
Thinking that he was some suppliant, he began to revile him and order him to be gone.
Later, she could approach death with suppliant hands, but now she must be ready.
And though the meanness and cowardliness were apparent, Louis looked at little else than the extreme agony of the suppliant.
Thou wilt not be able, when thy children fall suppliant at thy feet, to imbrue thy savage hand in their wretched life-blood.
It is a sorry part, that of suppliant, but so long as it is for another it is endurable.
I am to thee in place of a suppliant, to be revered, O Jove-nurtured one!
Here was the man whom she hated, suppliant before her to know the truth.
She not only assumed the attitude, but felt the spirit of a suppliant.
The waxen image is at its feet, as a suppliant, and awaiting only death.
To go a suppliant to that pious icicle my mother were worse than useless.
The suppliant raised his head, and his fingers relaxed their hold.
A Chorus from colonus comes to find out who the suppliant is.
She no longer knew herself, she, the uplifter, a crouching suppliant.
Alcinous, the Phaeacian king, briefly suspects that the spectacular suppliant who suddenly materializes at his wife's feet may be a god, intent on testing the piety of men.
As the piercing tones of the suppliant swelled on his ears, they moved slowly in the direction of her person, and finally settled there in a steady gaze.
On the contrary, he was masterful in whatever he did, but he had a trick of whimsical wheedling that Dede found harder to resist than the pleas of a suppliant lover.
