entreats

I counted seven references to the word in the first dozen pages alone, starting on the very first page, where Fleshman’s father entreats his 8-year old daughter to kick the neighborhood boys right in that spot until they let her join their games.

Corgan and company plan to release the album in three parts, and the first glimpse, “Beguiled,” entreats the listener to “return the faith” over a metallic palm-muted riff reminiscent of the band’s old days.

Wake up to joy, it entreats, before it’s too late.

But after Sojaila and her sister have dreams in which Nono entreats them to help him pass onto the afterlife, she and Rojas Contreras travel to Colombia to exhume Nono’s remains and collect the family histories.

A fan of Watson’s stories, the doctor entreats Holmes to investigate — and is thrilled when the uncannily observant detective, while refusing his appeal, says he’s known everything about him since the moment he walked in.