suplicated

Updated: June 17, 2025

Then he knelt down by the bedside and prayed. It was the first prayer he had offered up for years; but, oh! how earnestly he suplicated that his child might be spared to him. In his agonized pleading, so great was the commotion in his spirit and the emotions of his heart, that tears, the first that had bedewed his eyes since the death of his wife, streamed down his face.

Alvin Addison - Eveline Mandeville : Or, The Horse Thief Rival