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Перевод: suppliant
[прилагательное] просительный; умоляющий; [существительное] проситель
Тезаурус:
- He had sat in front of her, in the square little room which was used as a study, as if he were the suppliant, and had seen her sharp little eyes, black as currants, move round the room, noting the gaps in the shelves where Father Kendrick's leatherbound volumes had been stacked, the meagre rug in front of the gas fire, his few prints stacked against the wall.
- What can he do to help the humble suppliant ?
- In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King (1930) 46 T.L.R. 594; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator.
- He replied that he held his power in Italy by the same right of conquest established by Charlemagne and Otto, he had come, he said, "not to receive as a suppliant the transient favours of an unruly people, but as a prince resolved to claim, if necessary by force of arms, the inheritance of his forebears".
- And her suppliant's face, round and even in this twilight, thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before, repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side.
- As the protagonist in Kafka's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed: "There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive."
- The Suppliant Women was first performed in 421, during the Peloponnesian War, just when Athens was forced to make a peace with Sparta, and was doubtless intended to reinforce Athenian morale.
- The faces around her suppliant, wary - she is in a benevolent lull, she measures out wit and wisdom.
- At another any citizen might take the green bough of a suppliant and humbly petition to have "any cause, public or private" placed on the agenda; a right of initiative for the obscure.
- 680 by a suppliant, Ecgburh, expresses her grief at the loss some time before of her brother, Oshere, whom a bitter and cruel death had taken from her, and it may be that her brother was Oshere, king of the Hwicce.
- One likes to think that Demetrius the topographer, who put Ptolemy Philometor up when he went to Rome as a suppliant, made his precarious living by this kind of work (Diodor. 31.18).
- Euripides, in his play The Suppliant Women, sets out this antithesis in a famous dialogue between the Herald from Thebes and Theseus, the King of Athens.
- He was finally taken prisoner but got away from Sicily by pleading the status of a suppliant; later he returned and was killed.
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