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

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

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

I solemnly adjure you to drop this idea.

From The Red Room by August Strindberg

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

Exorcise, eks′or-sīz, or eks-or′-, v.t. to adjure by some holy name: to call forth or drive away, as a spirit: to deliver from the influence of an evil spirit.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

"Let's not look like we're flying," she adjures, flapping her elbows.

From Time Magazine Archive

"For God's sake," adjures Frimbo, "get on a train!"

From Time Magazine Archive

He adjures me to have pity, if not upon him, at all events upon his innocent Clara.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

Niecks, writing of the G major Nocturne, adjures us "not to tarry too long in the treacherous atmosphere of this Capua—it bewitches and unmans."

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker

John Muir, writing among his beloved trees of the Yosemite Valley, adjures his world-weary fellow men to seek the companionship of trees.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

He urgently adjured Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk to return to Poland to head the Polish Government, gave the London Poles a sharp reprimand for not having come to terms with Russia sooner.

From Time Magazine Archive

I adjured him for the last time voluntarily to abandon this madness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893.

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, she gave way; but this time the shyness to which she had pleaded guilty, made itself manifest by an occasional slight tremor in the sweet, clear voice.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

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

But Cepheus left the hall, adjuring loud, The hospitable gods; justice; and faith; That he was guiltless of the sanguine fray.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

But she only lifted a warning finger and made a sibilant sound with her lips, adjuring silence.

From The Tigress by Anne Warner