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If Adrienne would adjure her allegiance to the stage and banish all earthly thoughts, he would absolve her and would grant her the rite of Extreme Unction.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson

“Petrovitch, I adjure you!” said Akaki Akakievitch in an imploring tone, no longer hearing nor wishing to hear the tailor's words, “try to make this cloak last me a little longer.”

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

To "adjure" was to call upon a person to speak the truth in the Name of God.

From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary

Jeremiah, I adjure you, Leave me not again.

From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Zweig, Stefan

He went on, with chattering teeth, to adjure me to go no further; but crossing myself, I bade him be silent, and stepped forwards.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

As for himself, he is resigned to separation, and he adjures Wolfgang to live the life of a good Catholic Christian.

From Story-Lives of Great Musicians by Rowbotham, Francis Jameson

He adjures them to follow learning and goodness, and finally bids them take every care of the books; and not let them be separated.

From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)

The slightest intimation of a heart should be understood; it does not reciprocate a passion that continually adjures the object beloved to explain herself more clearly.

From Don Garcia of Navarre by Molière

Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Tokyo girl clerk adjured him: "Hatoyama-san, please be consistent in your austerity program."

From Time Magazine Archive

He urgently adjured Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to return to Poland to head the Polish Government, gave the London Poles a sharp reprimand for not having come to terms with Russia sooner.

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

Thus bluntly adjured, the fountains of discussion were at once open.

From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)

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

They distinctly saw Marianna at the window, and heard Pasquale adjuring her, in the most honeyed terms, not to expose herself to the night air.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

The beds are unmade, the mistress shuffles about in dressing-gown and slippers, adjuring her maid-of-all-work in shrill tones; she even goes out to shop unwashed, in an old skirt and jacket.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope