suppliant
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One recent Thursday, the suppliants in Chiang Ching-kuo's office included a grey-gowned businessman, a woman soothing a black-diapered baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants.
From Time Magazine Archive
The human race is not divided up, in the Iliad, into conquered persons, slaves, suppliants, on the one hand, and conquerors and chiefs on the other.
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But he soon made it clear he considered the British as suppliants, not equals: they could not hope to change the rules as a condition of joining the club.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the same time, he stressed, "we are resolute applicants, we are in no sense suppliants."
From Time Magazine Archive
When the young suppliants clasp their parent dear, Heave the deep sob, and pour the artless prayer, Ay! thou shalt melt; and many a heart-shed tear Gush o'er the hardened features of despair!
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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