Rhodan's desperate appeal for help was still too fresh in his memory.

But tonight his mother made this desperate appeal.

But the two men also drew a trail of angry looks and desperate appeals.

But in an incremental step, he added what sounded like a desperate appeal for negotiations.

She put her arms round him and murmured in a desperate appeal: "If you love me, do not go!"

He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass.

And it was not the memory of their silent, desperate appeal that worried her.

He rose to his knees and raised clasped hands in a last desperate appeal to Rap.

He looked down into the pit in desperate appeal.

And Smith thought, just before her eyes left his, he had seen in them one wild flash of hopeless, desperate appeal.