These
pleadings, and the counter
pleadings, being duly heard, the very learned judge in set terms decided, to wit, --That as for the boat, he awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it to save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale, harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons and line because when the fish made off with them, it (the fish) acquired a property in those articles; and hence anybody who afterwards took the fish had a right to them.
I thought it insane to take Soldier Boy to Spain, but it was well that I yielded to Cathy's
pleadings; if he had been left behind, half of her heart would have remained with him, and she would not have been contented.
"Let the tears of the poor man find with thee more compassion, but not more justice, than the
pleadings of the rich.
And now, although
pleading guilty to long delay, I have kept my promise in this book.
If at this moment the sweet voice of Renee had sounded in his ears
pleading for mercy, or the fair Mercedes had entered and said, "In the name of God, I conjure you to restore me my affianced husband," his cold and trembling hands would have signed his release; but no voice broke the stillness of the chamber, and the door was opened only by Villefort's valet, who came to tell him that the travelling carriage was in readiness.
Earnestly
pleading with her friend, Clara advances toward the window.
Her head was thrown back, all the silent passion of the inexpressible, the hidden secondary forces of nature, was blazing out of her eyes,
pleading with him in the broken music of her tone.
"I can't go away from you; I can't leave you," said Stephen, with still more passionate
pleading. "I shall come back again if you send me away with this coldness; I can't answer for myself.
The city found there all that is required for a city like Paris; a chapel in which to pray to God; a plaidoyer , or
pleading room, in which to hold hearings, and to repel, at need, the King's people; and under the roof, an arsenac full of artillery.
The musketeer still preserved the hope of reaching Nantes quickly, and of
pleading the cause of his friends eloquently enough to incline the king to mercy.
He could hardly have chosen a more unpropitious time for
pleading his cause with her.
Aunt Jamesina, carried away by his unfailing and deferential courtesy, and the
pleading tones of his delightful voice, declared he was the nicest young man she ever knew, and that Anne was a very fortunate girl.