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I speak to thee, the sophist, the talker-down Of scorn by scorn, the sinner against gods, The reverencer of men, the thief of fire,— I speak to thee and adjure thee!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Since thou has bared thy fell intent to us I, loving thee, and helping in their need Man's laws, adjure thee, dream not of this deed!

From Medea of Euripedes by Euripedes

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 Albert Payson Terhune

A secret, Albert," she replied, with much solemnity,--"a profound secret, which I adjure you not to reveal.

From The Alpine Fay A Romance by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

I adjure you, in the name of the friendship you have up to this moment shown me, to explain yourself clearly.

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

"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

"Madame has declared that henceforth she adjures all intrigue."

From The Master Mummer by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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 Francis Jameson Rowbotham

The poet now adjures the caverns, forests, flowers, fountains, and air, to 'cease to moan.'

From Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

One William McAndrew, writing in the November World's Work, adjured me to compose verses that, if memorized, would serve as a reminder to children to be careful when crossing the streets.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Susy had adjured her, with absolute tears starting to her black eyes, to keep the whole thing a secret.

From The Little Princess of Tower Hill by L. T. Meade

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

But Cepheus left the hall, adjuring loud, The hospitable gods; justice; and faith; That he was guiltless of the sanguine fray.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

More than once des Ageaux' voice could be heard adjuring the bearers to move faster.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman