There is an ache for comforting ritual: the peppy exhorting of cheerleaders, the hard slap of leather and plastic, a band's brassy geometry, the luxuriant smell of a grass field lined and mowed for autumn.

Or is it only that people need to be exhorted?

Most of all, he is once again exhorting his own people.

We are exhorted on this day to remember the poor.

He also exhorted the public to stop using the word altogether.

Yet he also exhorted the country to develop more energy sources.

Jones then exhorted the players to step up and play above themselves.

They are exhorted to give themselves to solid reading and study.

Officers were walking up and down before the men, exhorting them.

Mostly we exhorted others to join, and our men to stay.

He was now being exhorted to go into battle for the honor of his country.

He exhorted his people to remain neutral and to see to themselves.

It exhorts us to work on what has been spoiled.

March leaders exhorted people to step out of their houses.

He exhorted his team to do this, try that, and urged the officials to pay more attention.

At any rate he will know what a general ought to say when exhorting his soldiers?

Even his stake president had written once exhorting him to make things right.

But he seemed to grow in stature when exhorting people to feel better about themselves.

He had been trying furiously throughout the game to exhort his team.

He also exhorted his own party to stick to its principles.

I not only permit, but exhort you to speak the truth.

And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

By dealing with the mass of the people as his children, they are led to exhort one another to what is good.

The Duke nodded again and exhorted his men to move along.

How many more times must he exhort men to lay down their lives for the empire?

He went on to exhort his followers "to take the fighting to America."