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suppliants
n. (plural of suppliant English)
Usage examples of "suppliants".
On the other hand, she was generous with her scanty means, let all sorts of bums and drifters share her stuffed grape-leaves as well as her pallet, seldom stole from drunks, and gave without charge to needy suppliants oracles neither more nor less enigmatic than those she dispensed to me.
Every night after dinner he lingered in the great hall so that suppliants could come to him with disputes and complaints they wished settled.
We sat on a broken column just opposite the palace and watched the suppliants come and go.
All his life he had been surrounded by attendants, hangers-on, suppliants, dogs, nobles, and the general action and confusion of the court.