Object

• contest: On the first, the ferret pleads no contest.

• innocence: Fines are paid on the spot, usually after the driver has pleaded innocence and tried to knock down the cost of the fine.

• poverty: Who pleaded poverty yet lived surrounded by stolen wealth?

Preposition: on

• behalf: Scraping the bottom of the barrel, he pleads on behalf of the dead crew of space shuttle Columbia.

Modifying Another Word

• desperately: It doesn't end " happy ever after " but rather with the psalmist desperately pleading for help.

• earnestly: I earnestly plead with the Minister and those who advise him to show all hon.

Preposition: with

• man: We are but Christ's ambassadors who plead with men to be reconciled to God.

Modifying Another Word

• urgently: Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.

• initially: Ms Botting initially pleaded not guilty to 1871 Dogs Act charges by police.

Preposition: for

• mercy: Believing they are safe, they make no attempt at the trial to justify or to defend themselves or to plead for mercy.