Meanings of earnest intercession in English

Not so much my proposal, my lord, as my most earnest intercession.

Among them was a proper youth, for whom earnest intercession was made, that he might be the first to die.

He might repair to London, and he might even go upon another cruise-anidea which he had lately dismissed under Rosamund's earnest intercession.

"Mademoiselle, mademoiselle- " Ibeganin a voice of earnest intercession.

The earnest intercessions of Carvajal, however, brought the leaders at length to reflection, and through his mediation articles of capitulation were drawn up.

"I thought," said Simon Glover, rather seriously, "that all this was to be laid aside, when at earnest intercession I took you under my roof.