imploration

Joyce Basil held up her hand in imploration, but Reybold did not heed the woman's remark.

Stun their ears, madam, with the suddenness of your imploration, and let the voice come from your heart.

She heard the imploration, and, woman-like, sight of the awful agony extinguished the memory of her wrongs.

Will the same tune do as well for a dance as for a prayer, for a moonlight serenade as for an imploration of Divine mercy?

A feeling of helpless pity went through me as he sank to his knees in hysterical imploration, but I steeled myself against him.