Sentence examples for adjure from inspiring English sources

The show's producers adjure contestants to keep their mouths sealed so as not to spoil the fun for the viewers (and the television stations which sell advertising for it).

Be complimentary, they adjure.

In adjuring them to be silent, Jesus rejected the response as perhaps too partial, too political.

This move failing, he worked unceasingly for an amendment conferring power to raise revenue and wrote an eloquent address adjuring the states to avert national disintegration by ratifying the submitted article.

Henry's hesitations encouraged the formation of the powerful Holy League against the Huguenots; and, after the assassination of Henry III in 1589, his successor, the Protestant heir Henry IV, could pacify the kingdom only by adjuring Protestantism (July 1593), accepting Catholicism, and thus depriving the League of its pretext for resisting him.

He adjured his personal followers, suspected like him of favouring the Spartans, to fight bravely, and they all perished in the battle.

"Believe me," he adjured the reader in a 1950 "Open Letter," "you will have no trouble if you approach these poems as a child would, naïvely, with your whole being awake, your faculties loose and alert".

In the lithograph an ink-flecked prisoner, bound & gagged, stood between two headsmen before the bench of a judge, who was adjuring him "Speak up! Defend yourself!" Now the Western world has risen in unanimous praise of a novel that is unlikely all of it has read.