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 didn't want to risk having a child by anyone but her husband.
1999, (w), The Mandarins, p. 599:
With a pleading look, she raised her eyes to him.
1993, (w), Psalms, p. 225:
Have but a pleading heart and God will have a plenteous hand.