Citations:appeal
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English citations of appeal
1678 | 1818 1851 |
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- Then Talkative at first began to blush; but, recovering himself, thus he replied: You come now to experience, to conscience, and God; and to appeal to him for justification of what is spoken.
- 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
- A murmur of approbation followed Elizabeth's simple and powerful appeal, but it was excited by her generous interference, and not in favour of poor Justine, on whom the public indignation was turned with renewed violence, charging her with the blackest ingratitude.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- I should like to conclude the chapter with the above appeal, but cannot, owing to my anxiety to repel a charge often made against whalemen, and which, in the estimation of some already biased minds, might be considered as indirectly substantiated by what has been said of the Frenchman's two whales.