Word: appealed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dispatch to the London Standard from St. Petersburg says: A semi-official journal warns France that to allow the Nihilists to appeal through the Paris press for money is incompatible with the maintenance of the good relations of the powers, and also with their duties toward one another...
...fact which persistently followed me, the conviction I could not contradict. Often I awoke in the middle of the night, shivering and ghost-haunted, from some second vision of death and fate. What was the mystery? Where was Stephen Maymore? Always the old question; no answer, no appeal from this...
...traced, by which we arrive at some knowledge of the poet's mind and art, - these things are due in large part to the "very erratic kite." But the Advocate has happily reduced the question to a mathematical formula, - the Alpha and Omega from which there is no appeal : Mr. Wright = Dowden + Furnivall + ???. This is very pretty, and it doubtless satisfies the ingenious inventors; but more exact Shaksperian scholars will not accept it as proof of the "lunacy" of either Mr. Dowden or Mr. Furnivall. We do not propose to defend the latter gentleman in the use of language which...
...corporations, the heartlessness of directors, or the incompetence of instructors. These effusions do some good, no doubt, but only to him who meets with such mishaps; they in no way concern the public. Real grievances, in nine cases out of ten, can be best remedied by a direct appeal to the proper authorities; a headlong dash into print not only does no good, but does much harm. Complaint in general, and unreasonable complaint in particular, gives the student the reputation of a chronic grumbler, and such a reputation is a terrible barrier to the removal of objects of complaint...
When she saw Charlie's auburn ringlets, she smiled sweetly and said in Spanish, "Are you going to the Op. this afternoon?" Charlie replied in English, "Fairest maid, cast your drooping skylights upon me, for I have loved you from youth." At this touching appeal the infanta was about to faint, but the Buck tossed her a bottle of Hop Bitters, which she eagerly swallowed. As she began to revive the bull pup began to look unhappy, so they hastily left her muttering "Oh! Selladoor!? Charlie, leaning on the Buck's arm, walked home, and was sick with the measles...