One begging drink, flexible about cold water

Usage examples of supplicant.

Jack swept and cleaned glassware and ground herbs to powder, the anatomist saw two dozen more supplicants.

On the nearest one, a beautiful woman stood with her feet on the back of a crooked devil, her left hand raised against a swarm of inaccurate, fishlike representations of the Dark Ones, her right arm and cloak sheltering a crowd of kneeling supplicants.

Spartan kind, selected from the offerings made by supplicants of Akha daily.

He said something to the other supplicants waiting in line there, and they all mumbled grouchily and dispersed to other lines.

But here in America Kusum was reduced to an impotent supplicant standing before this stranger, asking for help.

I fear my brother and I parted company some time ago now and he outwore my patience before that with his procession of supplicants.

It seemed that while Lord Pardos was willing to discuss the rendering of aid to Kehnoorvos Ehlahs in her extremity, he felt it proper that Demetrios, as supplicant, come to the court of the Sea Lord.

It seemed that while Lord Pardos was willing to discuss the rendering of aid to Kehnooryos Ehlahs in her extremity, he felt it proper that Demetrios, as supplicant, come to the court of the Sea Lord.

Sometimes the supplicants received audiences, and sometimes they did not.

Two have been acquired by kindly supplicants in the United States of America in exchange for the substantial contribution the ascended master requests.

As paramount churchman in all of England and Wales, his court and establishment at Yorkminster was grown as large and complex as the court of his king, with a never-ending stream of visitors of all stations, supplicants, messengers from the royal court and from Rome and from high-ranking churchmen in foreign lands, nobles bound on one errand or another, and, it sometimes seemed to him, fully half the population of the realm.

Naturally, he could not himself spend all day every day doing nothing but meeting with supplicants and the like, so he had of course surrounded himself with concentric layers of men whose task was to winnow out the never-ending streams, and see the most of them met by and handled by lower-ranking subordinates, with only the business that could be performed properly by no other man eventually appearing before the Archbishop of York himself.

When, one morning, he was presented with the usual list of those with whom he was to meet this day, he just glanced at it briefly, not even noticing the names, just the numbers of the supplicants and the times of their appointments.

Lannon, naked and magnificent, took the ritual bath in the pool of Astarte and while they dressed him in the tunic of the supplicant, Lannon managed to insert a playful hand into the skirts of one of the novices without the others noticing.

But before Capril could make a move to remonstrate with the man, another supplicant, this one a middle-aged woman, stood and walked toward the lectern.