suppliant

How To Use suppliant In A Sentence

• Upon the stone was an engraving of an altar, upon which a sacrificial fire was burning, and before it a suppliant family bowed the knee; over this was thrown a white vestment archwise in the form of a rainbow. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
• The Moorish girl advanced, creeping on her knees, her two hands still extended towards Meroë, who, full of pity, leaned towards the suppliant, meaning to raise her up. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death
• A glass of orangeade was brought to thesuppliant Empress; she looked at the glass queerly. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
• He does not come ostentatiously and with anger, but is incarnate through Mary, whose suppliant obedience also demonstrates meekness in a relatively obscure village. Eric Simpson: The Meek Are Reconciled With The Earth: The Basis Of Christian Ecology
• Bauman, a disappointed suppliant, pretended ease in an oak armchair facing Tomlinson's desk. STONE CITY
• a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
• Bauman, a disappointed suppliant, pretended ease in an oak armchair facing Tomlinson's desk. STONE CITY
• 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.
• Inside the temple is a well that is believed to have the power to bring good luck and prosperity to suppliants.
• When waves of despair which no language can express sweep over the suppliant, how few cling with unyielding faith to the promises of God.