Bunning, his whole body strung to a desperate appeal, caught Olva's hand.

But Maryon could read the stricken expression in her eyes-thedesperate appeal of them.

His words were not spoken in despair but with an undertone of desperate appeal.

Julian's aunt Hayley has posted a desperate appeal online to help find her nephew.

At last he looked up, his grey eyes filled with an almost desperate appeal.

He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass.

He looked at the Queen with a sort of desperate appeal, then staggered away.'

This desperate appeal to Mrs. Lee's ambition was a calculated part of Ratcliffe's scheme.

One day she sent a desperate appeal to the writer to come & see her.

Was it a desperate appeal to him for protection?

Had I really gone chalk-white, had I really given the Queen a look of desperate appeal?

Her fingers closed over his with a frantic clutch; her eyes sought his in desperate appeal.

It is a desperate appeal that I make.

There was only time for one desperate appeal.

The second, her own name, uttered with almost desperate appeal, robbed her of the power of movement.

He made a desperate appeal to the chaplain: We have no friends here, sir, but you-notone.