1. noun
a document filed in a lawsuit
2. verb
present participle of plead
3. adjective
Of or pertaining to that which pleads.
Franchise, relaxed and soothed by the vagueness of a surrender set so far in the future, simply took hold of his two hands to make him behave himself and looked at him with her pretty pleading eyes — the eyes of a sensitive woman who didnt want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
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