"Supplicant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it mild, Laura!" said the girl in the neighbouring bed, when it began to seem as if the supplicant would never rise to her feet again. "Leave ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson
... give it all, withouten a word but what the blessed saints would avouch," said the terrified supplicant, whose once fiery face was now blanched, or rather dyed of a dull ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby
... came and placed it by Goliah's head on the side opposite the other; he produced the effect, thus brilliantly illuminated, of a corpse between two mortuary tapers. And in that brief moment their glances met; his was the wild, agonized look of the supplicant whom his fears have overmastered, but she affected not to understand, and withdrew to the sideboard, where she remained standing ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola |
