As the sense of responsibility is always strongest, in proportion as it is undivided, it may be inferred that a single man would be most ready to attend to the force of those motives which mightplead for a mitigation of the rigor of the law, and least apt to yield to considerations which were calculated to shelter a fit object of its vengeance.

For the bourgeois of Paris were aware that it is not sufficient to pray in every conjuncture, and toplead for the franchises of the city, and they had always in reserve, in the garret of the town hall, a few good rusty arquebuses.

He started when he saw Renee, for he fancied she was again about toplead for Dantes.

The office of judges may have reference unto the parties that use, unto the advocates thatplead, unto the clerks and ministers of justice underneath them, and to the sovereign or state above them.

I wasted no time in persuasion; the right person toplead my cause was asleep in her arms.

"DEAR SIR -- Accept my best thanks for the kindness and consideration with which you have treated me; and let the anxieties under which I am now sufferingplead my excuse, if I reply to your letter without ceremony, in the fewest possible words.

Finding it unnecessary toplead for the Tullivers, it was natural that aunt Pullet should relax a little in her anxiety for them, and recur to the annoyance she had suffered yesterday from the offspring of that apparently ill-fated house.

Whether advocates and orators had liberty toplead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?

Was it possible (if she made the confession) to trust to her own good conduct toplead her excuse?

I do not pretend toplead the immunities of my order so highly as this; but neither will I allow that the author of a modern antique romance is obliged to confine himself to the introduction of those manners only which can be proved to have absolutely existed in the times he is depicting, so that he restrain himself to such as are plausible and natural, and contain no obvious anachronism.

I can onlyplead, in defense, that the story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life.

Their sweet little lettersplead to know "more about Dorothy"; and they ask: "What became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do afterward?"--meaning, of course, after she became the Ruler of Oz.