From time to time the parents came out and, before television cameras, made grim, tearful appeals.

Her face was again blotchy and her eyes red as she gazed up at him in tearful appeal.

Behind them, Katya kept up her tearful appeals: declarations of love, interspersed with sobs.

Members of the Ownby family appeared on television to make tearful appeals for the boy's return.

The child looked up at the being of her own species in tearful appeal, but she made no attempt to flee to him.

Mrs. Wilson, in a tearful appeal to the Arkansas Legislature recently, asked for changes in the state law.

At first, he won't take Pam's case but eventually he is swayed by Andy's tearful appeal.

Ms. Witt said she couldn't believe it when Tonya Harding made the tearful appeal about her laces to the judges at rinkside.

Through the day, the military had practiced what it likes to call "psy-war" against the rebels, broadcasting tearful appeals from family members asking them to surrender.

Elisabeth made a tearful public appeal in a city square calling for help to her and her brother, neglected and held virtual captive by the Emperor.