Neither that letter nor his teenage daughter's tearful plea not to be made an orphan (her mother had earlier committed suicide) swayed the parole board.

After a tearful plea from Sophie, Sian agrees that the wedding is back on.

As Anna Leigh's banging became weaker, her demands turned to tearful pleas.

She began a tearful plea, explaining what appeared to be a tortured tale of her white skating boot with gold blade.

In Bush's interpretation, "Kennedy's dramatic, almost tearful plea for passage of the bill presented all those who disagree with it as hate mongers."

After a year of war-two years at the most-the human race will turn in horror and fear, issuing a tearful plea for salvation.

There, tearful pleas for aid have overwhelmed efforts to focus the agency's effort on the neediest and the achievable.

"A tearful plea on the noon news?"

She gripped Albot's arm, spoke an earnest, almost tearful plea.

Strand remembered Mrs Schiller's tearful plea to keep her name out of the affair.