Jane Eyre vocabulary

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)

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For when Jonah, not yet supplicating God for mercy, since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts,

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands together in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in a humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in:

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet,

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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The victor, having won the spolia opima, granted him his life, on condition that he would on his knees supplicate his pardon, acknowledge himself inferior to his conqueror in every virtue and qualification, and promise for the future to merit his favour by submission and respect.

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And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter-of-an-hour’s supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace,

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)