...As you say, I should plead in vain... 
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
... “But I am grateful,” Philippe insisted, “that you should condescend to hear me plead their cause...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...de La Tour d’Azyr who, despite his lassitude, was leaning over the back of it talking earnestly, seeming by his attitude to plead with her...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...He would plead, then, the act itself as an argument for the abolition...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...They plead their youth as an excuse for knowing solittle...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...“I presume that I must plead guilty also,” replied Swinton, “in having assisted to induce him; but you know a naturalist is so ardent in his pursuit that he thinks of nothing else...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...Buxton had somehow or other supposed that no white American could plead for those in bondage as I had done, and therefore I must be black...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...They have been long oppressed; and the same heart that prompts me to plead the cause of the American bondman, makes it impossible for me not to sympathize with the oppressed of all lands...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
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