Cugel called out a plaintive appeal: "Do you remember how I rescued you from the pelgrane?"

She is still looking up at him, a plaintive appeal falling on deaf ears.

On the way out, a final plaque offers a plaintive appeal: "There would be no Jurassic Park, no recreated dinosaurs for our entertainment, without science."

This plaintive appeal is gone now, perhaps erased by someone who accepted that the neighborhood is changing.

Might the song of the maiden of E-chou, long ago, have had the same plaintive appeal?

He howled an unbroken stream of curses intermixed with plaintive appeals to God, his mother, and anyone else he could think of at the moment.

But lower down on the dynamic scale, there is a huskiness and loss of quality that preclude the plaintive appeal best suited to the song literature.

Perhaps the most plaintive appeal for restraint came from an organization representing the 120 "human shields" who have traveled to Iraq to try to prevent military strikes.

Here in his native Caribbean, the words carry a more plaintive appeal.

It is the sidewalk vigils by many hundreds of residents - plaintive appeals for work that some have undertaken daily for months or years.