petitionary

Updated: July 13, 2025

He frequently visited the theatre, where his presence attracted prodigious throngs of persons, all eager to see and applaud him. The immense number of letters which were at this time addressed to the First Consul is scarcely conceivable. They contained requests for places, protestations of fidelity, and, in short, they were those petitionary circulars that are addressed to all persons in power.

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete

Among other petitionary remonstrances on this subject, the members were separately presented with the printed case of captain George Walker, a prisoner in the gaol of the king's bench, who had been declared a bankrupt, and complained, that he had been subjected to some flagrant acts of injustice and oppression.

T. (Tobias) Smollett - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. : Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II.

But the other half of her heart and soul was filled with something else a later, fuller, nearer influence. And so the old fought against the new. And while she hesitated, from the room above came the soft, racking, petitionary music of a violin. The hag, music, bewitches some of the noblest.

O. Henry - Strictly business: more stories of the four million

This highest form of prayer in Class B merges almost imperceptibly into Class C, where prayer loses its petitionary character, and becomes either a meditation on, or a worship of, God.

Annie Besant - Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries

Oakhurst and Hamilton." "Please!" Mr. Decker could not resist the petitionary grace of those white hands and that sensitive mouth, and took her to his arms. Suddenly he said, "What's that?" He was pointing to the bosom of her white dress. Where Mr. Oakhurst had touched her, there was a spot of blood. It was nothing: she had slightly cut her hand in closing the window; it shut so hard! If Mr.

Bret Harte - Tales of the Argonauts

Then they took courage, and sent again and again, and again, and again; for there was not now one day, nor an hour that went over Mansoul's head, wherein a man might not have met upon the road one or other riding post, sounding the horn from Mansoul to the court of the King Shaddai; and all with letters petitionary in behalf of, and for the Prince's return to Mansoul.

John Bunyan - The Holy war, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul