"Please don't do this", Matt said quietly, almost pleadingly.
The mothers look pleadingly at the aid worker, but he keeps his eyes on his clipboard, working out which children are sick enough to eat today.
She looked at me pleadingly.
Once more the corners of her lips lifted pleadingly, arched with guileful, provocative sweetness.
She held out her arms to him pleadingly.
He dared, therefore, to raise his eyes to those of the king, and to look pleadingly at him.
But even as he looked, pleadingly, anxiously, into her upturned face, the light of forgiveness had already illumined the gentle, tear dimmed eyes.
