It was an earnest appeal, evidently from some traveler in distress.

This was not a piece of art; it was an earnest appeal.

The announcer issued earnest appeals, as if gargling in sand: "Players, please return to your assigned positions and stand by.

She resists him at first, but is eventually won over by his earnest appeals and falls into his arms.

That was why the tall, redheaded planeteer bent toward her in a final earnest appeal.

He made an earnest appeal to the Council to avoid all dissension and to make no compromise with the enemies of their religion and country.

How could she plead further to this rascal who met the most earnest appeal with a pert jest?

I don't know whether my earnest appeal made any impression on her; she seemed skeptical of affirmative action during the question-and-answer period that followed.

(1857) An earnest appeal to the British public on behalf of the missing Arctic Expedition.

Madam Commissioner, we make an earnest appeal for a constructive dialogue with you and with the Council on this specific issue.