Had they come in response to her desperate plea for help?

It was a strong man's desperate plea for enlightenment, and no one had an answer at all.

They were both watching her now with a sort of desperate plea in their expressions.

He then looked at me with a desperate plea in his eyes.

The baby is quickly taken away by a priest, despite the mother's desperate pleas.

She opened her eyes again to make one last, desperate plea.

She closed her heart to the desperate plea in his voice.

The question was more a desperate plea for understanding, and not one she really expected an answer to.

In a moment her desperate pleas were answered, and she was free of the wall.

This was news to me, but one look at the desperate plea in her eyes and I found myself nodding.