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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 S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats

Then Caiaphas said—"I adjure thee by the living God that thou tell us whether thou be Christ, the Son of God."

From Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester by Austin Holyoak

His duty was to admonish and exhort, to adjure his flock to quit the error of their ways.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis

The high priest… said… I adjure thee by the living God, that tell us whether thou be the Christ.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

If you care not for the happiness of one who would risk his life for yours, then do I adjure you, as you care for truth, to speak the truth!

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

"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

When the mother leaves the house with her babe, she adjures the spirits to follow and to guard their ward.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan

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

"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 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

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

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Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hands of the Arm," Beppo adjured, "is she not now at our meeting-place?

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

She felt as if she were breaking something to Farvie and adjuring him to bear it.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown

I knew then that as far as he was concerned we were safe; and I turned to bid the women get cloaks and food, adjuring them to be quick, since every moment was precious.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman