Something compelling flashed out of her eyes, an expression between a triumphant smile and a ray of irresistible Beseechment.
"Alice of Old Vincennes"
Maurice Thompson
The Princess Zairoff, to whom men's admiration was as familiar as the air of Heaven, who possessed rank and wealth and loveliness such as dower few women, had yet never granted to one human being a sign of tenderness, or unveiled, so to speak, the deep strange depths of her strange nature, to any Beseechment.
"The Mystery of a Turkish Bath"
E.M. Gollan (AKA Rita)