1 Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V—A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY 2 Let us adjure him, in the name of the God before whom he must perhaps appear, to speak the truth.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII 3 Comrade," said he, "I adjure you, as a Christian and a soldier, to tell me where we are going.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If. 4 OH, LILY, DO GO SLOWLY, her friend adjured her.
5 Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr. Dorset such legitimate mirth.
6 Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence.
7 I called to Herbert and Startop to keep before the tide, that she might see us lying by for her, and I adjured Provis to sit quite still, wrapped in his cloak.
8 Kissing her again, he turned round, drew the coverlet over his head, and lay as still as if that time had come by which she had adjured him.