suppliant

And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.

“Your mission will be hard this year,” wrote Anne-Marie, another adult suppliant.

She was to tell him that violent as Achilles was, he was not really evil, but one who would treat properly a suppliant.

A priest flocked by suppliant children entreats Oedipus, renowned for his mental prowess, to find the answer that will rescue the city.

Shooting it frontally, Greene looked up at the timeworn face from the subordinate vantage point of a suppliant.