Synonyms
Examples for "suppliant"
Examples for "suppliant"
1
See, the mother is a suppliant to the son for the son.
2
Impersonal, unresponsive attendants in Aztec garb guard the door from suppliant followers.
3
It was now the priest who menaced, Quasimodo who was the suppliant.
4
He became the veriest suppliant at the shrine where woman reigns supreme.
5
To make the man a suppliant is the delight of her soul.
1
It was the whine of the Hindu beggar, halting, supplicatory, almost revoltingly servile.
2
Not the infant Samuel, who, in spite of his supplicatory attitude, found no pity.
3
Mrs. Brimmer cast a supplicatory look at Miss Keene, and hastily quittedtheroom
4
Complain's gesture was angry, but Vyann's was supplicatory.
5
I became quite fond of her; a figure leaning out of the crowd, both supplicatory and tender.
1
You must speak to them as equal, or even better, as supplicant.
2
Mr. Sheldon the younger contemplated the supplicant with looks of undisguised gratification.
3
He could not abide the picture of himself as a vulnerable supplicant.
4
You're not to touch the supplicant in any way during the testing.
5
He dropped to his knees like a supplicant preparing to abase himself.
6
Each was divided into two cubicles, one for supplicant, one for priest.
7
He gazed down into his own upturned palms, chalk white and supplicant.
8
I come as a supplicant to ask a favor of you.
9
This time Washington is in the unaccustomed position of a supplicant.
10
But take off the jewel; a supplicant should make no display.
11
As supplicant at the door of the IMF 20 years later?
12
General Heatherstone looked keenly at the supplicant, but was silent to his appeal.
13
Once I made the switch, I was no longer a supplicant.
14
Fear made a supplicant draft to the utmost of her abilities.
15
The secret, O innocent supplicant, is that there is no secret.
16
The most humble supplicant of your Serenity, the University of learning at Oxford.
