word: adjure
context:
[A] cruel black paw pinned [the two mice] to the ground! … ‘Whatever you do, lie still!’ adjured the glance of Miss Bianca.
definition (Merriam-Webster): to command solemnly under or as if under oath or penalty of a curse
One of the complications for the intrepid mice of the Prisoners’ Aid Society is the prison cat. Up to now Miss Bianca has figured out ways to placate — or, at least, distract — the monstrous mouser, but now her dear friends and colleagues, Nils and Bernard, are under the cat’s power. Can she outwit the cat this time?
source:
The Rescuers
by Margery Sharp
1959. A Yearling Book / Dell Publishing, New York
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