"Adjure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... And so I adjure all youthful and hopeful persons, who have a tendency to be funny, to keep it a profound secret from the world. Indulge in your propensities to any extent in your family circle; keep your immediate ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn
... "Lyman," he said, "I adjure you—I—I demand of you as you are my son and an honourable man, explain yourself. What is there behind all this? It is no longer as Chairman of the Committee I speak to you, you a member of the Railroad Commission. ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris
... glorious star of England, Shining mast-high o'er all oceans; In the name of France the glorious; In the world-proud name of Europe; Whence you draw your great traditions; I adjure ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall
... JOCASTA Believe him, I adjure thee, Oedipus, First for his solemn oath's sake, then for mine, And for thine elders' ...
— The Oedipus Trilogy • Sophocles
... delirium, and Kitty had to adjure Mike to say no more; if he did she should go mad. Breakfast had to be skipped, and it was only by bribing a cabman to gallop to Westminster that they caught the coach. Even so they would have missed it had not Mike sprung at risk of limb from the hansom and sped on the ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore
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