2006, Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books,http://books.google.com/books?id=Rzzlj9K9KXYC Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0-7425-5094-0, page 236:
In the Muslim world, the most compelling and decisive books are those full of confessions written on the flesh of victims, and the most earnest prayers are the entreats for mercy screamed in pain and anguish at the tormentors and flesh and thought.
It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat.
1847, (w), (w), Chapter XVIII
“But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”
1937, Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney:
One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true