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Meanings of suppliant air in English

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Usage of suppliant air in English
1
But she wore no more the suppliant air which at first distinguished her.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2
2
Instead she assumed a suppliant air, her beautiful eyes meltingly set upon his face.
St. Martin's Summer
3
The unhappy bellringer fell upon his knees on the threshold, and clasped his large, misshapen hands with a suppliant air.
Notre-Dame de Paris
4
She had knelt down, and, stretching out her clasped hands, fixed her large azure eyes on him with a most heart-rending, suppliant air.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
5
"Madame, if I should fall a victim to the boar- "hecontinued, with a suppliant air.
A Woman of Thirty
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