adjure

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

Monsieur, I implore you, I adjure you, to open this letter.

From The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence by Eug?ne Sue

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

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)

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

"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

Then she adjures him by all the sacred ties, and dwells pathetically on the circumstance which had struck even Menelaus.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

Accordingly, centralized France reads to us edifying homilies on the advantages of disintegration; and England, rich with the spoils of suppressed insurrections, adjures us most plaintively to respect the sacred rights of rebellion.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

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

From Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Thus adjured, Sophia moved reluctantly to a front seat at the right-hand corner of the box.

From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

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

And at this extreme advantage Persimmon Sneed and his raised adjuring forefinger seemed impossible to be gainsaid.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

And all the time Jeff was tugging madly at John Hatch's arm, adjuring him to wake and meet the peril.

From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts