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"Give 'em a prayer, parson," said he; "but be brief, I adjure you, for we must up anchor and be off."

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton

"I adjure you to consider what you are saying, and the possible consequences of such a promise!"

From Too Rich A Romance by Adolph Streckfuss

Jeremiah, I adjure you, Leave me not again.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig

In the Song of Songs, after the ecstatic praise of the beloved, the question is asked:— "What is thy beloved more than any other beloved, that thou dost so adjure us?"

From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

Then the Syrian would solemnly adjure him, or threaten him if he were obstinate, and so drive him out.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

"For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train!"

From Time Magazine Archive

"Let's not look like we're flying," she adjures, flapping her elbows.

From Time Magazine Archive

By all that is sacred, by all to you tender, Your country adjures, arise and defend her!

From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various

The cardinals assist at Mass and receive holy communion from the hands of the Cardinal Dean, who solemnly adjures them to elect as pope him whom they believe to be the most worthy.

From Pope Pius the Tenth by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes

Felix summons Polyeuctes to an interview, and adjures to be a prudent man.

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus adjured and fortified, the Chamber got down to cases Tuesday afternoon in one of the longest luncheon sessions on convention records.

From Time Magazine Archive

"More and more," T.R. adjured Congress in 1902, "the increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world."

From Time Magazine Archive

Good-humoredly, he adjured photographers to picture his "bad" eye as well as his good.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was to have a light supper sent up and Mrs. Hope adjured Herrick not to worry!

From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy

But before adjuring court, Orbus reminded Strauss-Kahn that the bail was not meant as a punishment, but to ensure that he appeared at the required hearings and did not flee justice.

From Time ● Jul. 1, 2011

For some 20 years he has been adjuring, adverting, advising his countrymen to discover in their fragmentary selves a Sense of the Whole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The classic manuals, written by starchy Englishmen and rock- ribbed Yankees, try to take all the fun out of writing, grimly adjuring the writer to avoid offbeat words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Shane's voice could be plainly detected adjuring his guests to abstain from needless noise, since the countess lay ill.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

But here Miss Bird appeared at the schoolroom window, adjuring the twins to come in at once.

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall