When the home crowd chanted Rooney's name in the first half it was an entreaty to make a difference rather a celebration of his efforts.
I wanted to answer Norman MacCaig's entreaty in his Luskentyre poem: "Scholars, I plead with you, / Where are your dictionaries of the wind … ?" In the seven years after first reading the "Peat Glossary", I sought out the users, keepers and makers of place words.
Her e-mails combine mad fury, misplaced desire and desperate entreaty.
Or today's hardly life-affirming new entreaty (see above): "What's worse than 10 more months of David Cameron in No. 10? 5 more years.
Citing a supposed deathbed entreaty by the founding King Abdel Aziz ibn Saud to his sons in 1953, many Yemenis believe that the Saudis always want to "keep Yemen weak".
And we are determined to boost our efforts in a more determined and more persistent way".The Turkish authorities are using a mix of entreaty and threats to ensure they get what they want.
Now, his friends attest, he is pondering a comeback.A rumble of entreaty among a few supporters has become a boisterous campaign to persuade him to run against the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in next June's poll.
Substitute saving for chastity and the sentiment is as apt today as it was when the good monk of Hippo first made his entreaty more than 1,500 years ago.Thrift is hard in a credit culture that promises to take the waiting out of wanting.
I leave you with one final entreaty.
The custom of communal banquets has been preserved into modern times in Russia in the bratchina (from brat, "brother"), in the mol'ba ("entreaty" or "supplication"), and in the kanun (a short religious service); in the Serbian slava ("glorification"); and in the sobor ("assembly") and kurban ("victim" or "prey") of Bulgaria.
In the ideal society there are no books; the Laozi (Daodejing) itself would not have been written but for the entreaty of Yin Xi, the guardian of the pass, who asked the "Old Master" to write down his thoughts.
