How To Use Beseech In A Sentence
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That which seemeth to me most likelie, I haue noted, beseeching the learned (as I trust they will) in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill: sith for ought I know, the matter is not yet decided among the learned, but still they are in controuersie about it, and as yet Sub iudice lis est.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
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The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes.
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Spare him, I beseech you.
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Gladly would I grace my tale with decent horror, and therefore I do beseech the "gentle reader" to believe, that if all the _succedanea_ to this mysterious narrative are not in strict keeping, he will ascribe it only to the disgraceful innovations of modern degeneracy upon the sober and dignified habits of our ancestors.
Humorous Ghost Stories
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Had a well-meaning stranger taken him into a family home, beseeching him to rest on a red ottoman ?
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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I prayerfully beseech you to seek help, and I assure you that your present enslavement to homosexuality can be remedied.
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Anna gave Klaus a beseeching look, but he was studying his hands, his face distraught.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Beseech me, they seemed to say, throw your arms about me and bury your head between my knees and seek pardon for your great sin.
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V.F. Philippus_; the meaning, according to the older interpretation, will be: "Philippus beseeches M. Holconius Priscus, duumvir of justice, to favor or patronize him;" whereas the true sense is:
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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The eyes were full of beseechment, and irresistibly lovely.
The Prince of India — Volume 01
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Curious how the empty eyes of dead fish can beseech a person so.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Her eyes went to McBean, beseeching some form of denial, but there was only compassion.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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The husband's determination to mastery, which lay deep below all blandness and beseechingness, had risen permanently to the surface now, and seemed to alter his face, as a face is altered by a hidden muscular tension with which a man is secretly throttling or stamping out the life from something feeble, yet dangerous.
Romola
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O God, who in wondrous wise didst raise up blessed Joan for the defense of her faith and her country: grant, we beseech thee, through her intercession, that thy church, overcoming all the wiles of her enemies, may enjoy unceasing peace.
May 30 -- St Joan of Arc
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The service beseeches God to hear the prayers of the community.
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And looking down on the unthinking city, the Cathedral kept watch alone, beseeching pardon for the inappetency for suffering, for the inertia of faith that her sons displayed, uplifting her towers to the sky like two arms, while the spires mimicked the shape of joined hands, the ten fingers all meeting and upright one against another, in the position which the image-makers of old gave to the dead saints and warriors they carved upon tombs.
The Cathedral
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Especially when those damned soft eyes of hers quietly beseeched him.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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Violet's face is crimsoned to its utmost capacity, and her eyes have that awful beseechingness that cuts him to the soul.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
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But He delights to be held by beseeching hands, and our wishes 'constrain' Him.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
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Somewhere between 432 and 460 a second visionary dream, in which the Irish people beseeched him to return, ignited his missionary zeal.
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He further noted that they said Mulungu caused calamity and for that reason they had to hold ntambiko (ceremonies of offering) in an effort to "beseech" him.
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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I beseech you help me now against my brother, and intreat him that he will not seek to disherit me; but if he will go on with what he hath begun, say to him that I will rather die with the men of Zamora, and they with me, than give him up the town, either for price or exchange.
Chronicle of the Cid
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‘Please Alex, we beg of you, don't,’ he beseeched imploringly.
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Whenever Britain is in a royal mess over some fiendishly tricky quandary, we beseech Queen Mary for her counsel.
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I enter into confession, I most humbly beseech you, that you would vouchsafe (in this distresse) to assist me with your fatherly advice and counsell, because, if thereby I cannot attaine to a more pleasing kinde of happinesse; neither confessior, or any thing else, is able to doe me any good at all.
The Decameron
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In which respect I have returned my dutiful acknowledgement, which I beseech you to present, when you shall call a convocation, about some matter of greater moment.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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She beseeched him to cut his drinking and his smoking.
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The size of the nestler is comic, and its tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high reposing Providence toward it.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Bid not thy guard to shoot again, Meriamun, lest the arrow find _thy_ heart, for, know this, no man may harm me;" and once more she lifted her veil, and speaking to those at the gates said: "Open, I beseech you, and let the Hathor pass.
The World's Desire
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Mojaheds of the Islamic Revolution beseeched the youth of Iran not to waste their lives for the sake of ‘liberalism and capitalism’.
Washington Post Shills for Terrorists « Antiwar.com Blog
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The Princess Zairoff, to whom men's admiration was as familiar as the air of Heaven, who possessed rank and wealth and loveliness such as dower few women, had yet never granted to one human being a sign of tenderness, or unveiled, so to speak, the deep strange depths of her strange nature, to any beseechment.
The Mystery of a Turkish Bath
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Ken Bates has personally beseeched this column to look into "a serious matter for investigation".
Andy Anson in line for top BOA post despite World Cup bid fiasco
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I come to humbly beseech your assistance.
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That Paulson should have gone down on one knee to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as if prayer and beseechment might get the job done, strikes me as further evidence that sheer superstition and incantation have played their part in all this.
America the Banana Republic
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As a mother, I put such a possibility furthest from my mind, even as you beseech fate that Nettle never be burdened with a crown.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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But his mother had beseeched and pleaded with him until he felt that he must go.
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Observe, It is no disparagement for those who have power to be condescending, and sometimes even to beseech, where, in strictness of right, they might command; so does Paul here, though an apostle: he entreats where he might enjoin, he argues from love rather than authority, which doubtless must carry engaging influence with it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear.
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a "fremyt" voice, and he starting up surprised, and slinking off as if he were to blame somehow, or had been dreaming he heard; many eager questions and beseechings which James and I could make nothing of, and on which she seemed to set her all, and then sink back ununderstood.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
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There are some of you to whom it comes muffled in the mists of doubt; but I beseech you all, look at the Cross, _look at the Cross!
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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The nightingale now opened, and a little humming-bird of most surprising brilliancy hopped forth, and jumping up to the Queen, held out its beak, having a label therein, apparently beseeching her to accept the offering.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)
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Had a well-meaning stranger taken him into a family home, beseeching him to rest on a red ottoman ?
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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In short he beseeches them to consider what they were and what they have become.
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Mr. Arnold concedes that, despite some protestation, many Moros liked the American policies and beseeched the U.S. to delay plans for their self-rule.
An Insurgency and Its Lessons
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While his expression beseeched her, she thought him fraudulent, covering his horrific deeds with an aura of Mr. Super Clean.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
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She looked up at him with beseeching eyes.
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Her hands were lifted in pleading beseechment, while her wailing voice sobbed with questions.
The Pride of Hannah Wade
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Though the apostles went out backed with the authority of the Son of God himself, yet their instructions were, when they came into a house, not to command it, but to salute it; for love's sake rather to beseech, is the evangelical way, Philemon 8, 9.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Beseeching your good mastership, for the love of Christ's passion, to help to the preservation of this poor monastery, that we your beadsmen may remain in the service of God, with the meanest living that any poor men may live with, in this world.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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Her expression crumpled, and she held her arms out beseechingly.
Among the Free
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Willow suddenly clutched my arm to her, her voice hushed but urgent, her eyes beseeching me; ‘Do not leave my side!’
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So when the nest-owner would have gone out after his wont, he drew near the Cat; whereupon she seized him and taking him in her claws, began to bite him and shake him and take him in her mouth and lift him up and cast him down and run after him and cranch him and torture him. 63 The Mouse cried out for help, beseeching deliverance of Allah and began to upbraid the Cat, saying,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Each commander began to beseech his immediate superior for reinforcements.
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`You beseech me to come to you for ever, to run away, ask to divorce Kurt.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Gone are the soulful melodies unleashed by a thousand musicians, who were beseeching the rain god to show mercy.
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Gus paused in his verbal attack on Ian, his eyes aggressively searching the crowd for an answer, but the faces stared back with the beseeching look of a puppy that had broken house-training and didn't understand why it was being shouted at.
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In the weeks and months to come, we will hear the voices of well-meaning people beseeching the victor to compromise with the vanquished.
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In an agony of panic at this point, I beseeched her to tell me whether I needed medical attention.
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In the middle of this din, the Baron repeatedly implored silence; and when at length the instinct of polite discipline so far prevailed, that for a moment he obtained it, he hastened to beseech their attention ` ` unto a military ariette, which was a particular favourite of the Marechal Duc de
The Waverley
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And I do beseech him, for the sake of his own soul, and, as a messenger of Jesus Christ, require him, as he will answer the contrary at the bar of God, that he lay aside the stoutness and impenitency of his heart, and unfeignedly confess and lament his sin before God and this congregation.
The Reformed Pastor
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It was his way of beseeching us to intercede and vote for his salvation.
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And SOLOMON answered and said unto him, ‘My lord, I beseech thee, I would ask thee one question; be not unheedful of my cry.’
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She wrote to him, and in the tenderest terms entreated he would reconcile himself to what was past, and as a consolation, to be thankful what he had so much feared had not happened, that she lived, and would never bring reproach on him; beseeched him, as he valued her peace of mind, not to think on her with regret, but to rejoice in her happiness.
Simple Facts; or, the History of an Orphan
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Philemon a favor, has to earnestly "beseech," almost command, his reception as a favor to himself.
Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?
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In conclusion, I beseech the Almighty God to grant success to all those who serve Islam and the Muslims, and honor and glory to the dear Iranian nation.
Wonk Room » Montazeri: ‘In This Day And Age, One Cannot Hide The Truth From The People’
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I beseech you to forgive me.
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He entreated / implored / beseeched her not to desert him.
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Curious how the empty eyes of dead fish can beseech a person so.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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I beseech ye, be so kind as to let me be the first that is sent on shore; for I would by all means a little untruss a point.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Hereupon we bad him generally farewell, beseeching God to keepe and preserue him from misfortunes, and hoping that at some one time or other he should finde deliuerance; for that all shippes sailing to the West Indies must there of necessity refresh themselues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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On one occasion he put his handprints on the painting as if beseeching the canvas to acknowledge the exiled body.
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And at the last, after many words, there was a clerk which had been longing to S. Erkenwold, and saw this strife, and stood up and commanded silence, and told to the people a great commendation of the virtuous life of this holy saint, and said it was not honest, ne according, to misentreat the holy body by violent hands, but let us beseech Almighty
The Golden Legend, vol. 7
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Isabella, your servant, Madam, being sensible of the insociable and solitary life you lead, I have brought my whole Family to wait on your Ladyship, and this my Son in Futuro, to kiss your hands, I beseech your Ladyship to know him son your humble servant: my Son and your Nephew Madam are coming, with the Musick too, we mean to pass the whole day with your Ladyship: — and see they are here.
Sir Patient Fancy
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We will never know what might have happened had the management felt able to back these shining lights a little earlier, as some of us beseeched them to do.
Six Nations 2011: Chris Ashton is proof of England's blooming youth
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Standing, kneeling and prostrating we affirm: "Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help.
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz: Teach Us How To Pray
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Many eager questions and beseechings which James and I could make nothing of, and on which she seemed to set her all, and then sink back ununderstood.
Types of Children's Literature
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I implore God to graciously aid Me in this, for unto such as beseech Him, He is the All-Bounteous, and of those who show mercy, He is the Most
Gems of Divine Mysteries
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“fremyt” voice, and he starting up surprised, and slinking off as if he were to blame somehow, or had been dreaming he heard; many eager questions and beseechings which James and I could make nothing of, and on which she seemed to set her all, and then sink back ununderstood.
Spare Hours
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Be assured, madam," he said respectfully, "that Mr Lane shall fare better for the beseechment of so good a daughter, and that I will do mine utmost to have him gently handled.
The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender
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CREATOR Spirit, who broodest everlastingly over the lands and waters of earth, enduing them with forms and colours which no human skill can copy, give me to-day, I beseech Thee, the mind and heart to rejoice in Thy creation.
A Diary Of Private Prayer
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After his last Hindi film, many of his colleagues have been beseeching him to make a commercial Hindi film.
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Aerill throws up his hands and quickly turns the gesture into one of beseechment.
Session 1: Every New Beginning « Love | Peace | Ohana
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Pregnant with concupiscence, she beseeched him.
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39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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-- At the beginning of the torture he said, "My lords, not knowing that I shall escape this torture with my life, therefore, I beseech you to remember what Solomon saith, _He who sheweth no mercy, shall have judgment without mercy_, &c.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
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' Rocking back in his chair, Todd cast a beseeching look upwards.
FINAL RESORT
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She beseeched him to cut his drinking and his smoking.
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A voice at the other end gives details of a medical emergency, and beseeches the doctor to come at once to the hospital.
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Harrel, and taking her into another room, said, “I beseech you, my dear friend, let not your worthy brother suffer by his generosity; permit me in the present exigence to assist Mr Harrel: my having such a sum advanced can be of no consequence; but I should grieve indeed that your brother, who so nobly understands the use of money, should take it up at any particular disadvantage.”
Cecilia
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The girl to whom he had been engaged had died, and that had left a kind of sweetness, almost beseechingness, in his manner, very engaging in so tall and strong a man.
Aladdin O'Brien
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`You beseech me to come to you for ever, to run away, ask to divorce Kurt.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Speaking directly to MacPhail's brother and son, who witnessed the execution, Davis beseeched them to continue to examine the events that night.
Troy Davis Executed: Controversially Convicted Inmate Maintains Innocence Until The End
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Zoe was a beautiful brown-and-white spaniel, with eyes that were almost human in their soft beseechingness, and Mrs. Broderick often lamented that she could not eulogise his doggish virtues as Mrs. Browning had immortalised her Flush.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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While the solid branches were reserved for the construction of the booths, the lighter branches were carried by men, who marched in triumphal procession, singing psalms and crying "Hosanna!" which signifies, "Save, we beseech thee!
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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As a mother, I put such a possibility furthest from my mind, even as you beseech fate that Nettle never be burdened with a crown.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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I. ii.195 (243,9) [I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts, wherein I confess me much guilty] I should wish to read, _I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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I write countless numbers of letters begging and beseeching on behalf of patients.
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Her great eyes, black, with weary white lids, used to follow me as I left the hospital ward, and I could not always tear myself away from their dumb beseechingness, but would turn back and sit down again by the bed.
The Story of My Life
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beseeches" the brigand for "his son Onesimus," telling him that now he receives him "forever," and then calls the desperado "our dearly beloved fellow-laborer"!
The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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The forlorn gazes of the people beseeched them to give them solace, to end their pain.
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People who pray tend to beseech their deity for some kind of enrichment or advancement.
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Some among them began to pray, not for succor, but final prayers, beseeching forgiveness for sins committed.
AMAGANSETT
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Preacher lady and the Jesus police start mumbling and beseeching G_d to strike me down and boil me in molten tar.
Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
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And for that I know that thou art a good knight, I beseech you to help me; and for ye be a fellow of the Round Table, wherefore ye ought not to fail no gentlewoman which is disherited, an she besought you of help.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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But Chan only gave him that anxious and beseeching look I had seen so many times before.
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I wasn't crawling about in the snow, not for him or anyone, but I stood while he mumped away with his hands folded, beseeching the Lord that we might quit ourselves like men, or something equally useful, and then we climbed in and took our forty winks.
The Sky Writer
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To beseech your lordships all to consider her woeful case, that being but once licensed to write as an humble suitress unto the Queen's Highness, and received thereby no such comfort as she hoped to have done, but to her further discomfort in a message by me opened, that it was the Queen's
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
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Henrietta had written it again, and again had crept into his chamber and in whatever part of the house the magnate might now be found, he everywhere encountered this pale tremulous figure who pressing her hands together and without uttering a word gazed at him beseechingly, imploringly -- only they two knew why.
The Poor Plutocrats
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Starving, beseeching Third World faces stared from arid landscapes into the greenery and chubby cheeks of the First World.
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Show us, we beseech thee, the way of the cross that we must follow, the way of Jesus.
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Wherefore -- Because of my love to thee, I prefer to "beseech," rather than "enjoin," or authoritatively command.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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According to John, the most expedient way to destroy tyrants was to beseech God's retribution, but he explicitly sanctioned human dissimulation and treachery when they served the cause.
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And I do earnestly beseech him, for the sake of his own soul, that he will consider, what it is that he can gain by his sin and impenitency, and whether it will pay for the loss of everlasting life; and how he thinks to stand before God in judgment, or to appear before the Lord Jesus, when death shall snatch his soul from his body, if he be found in this impenitent state.
The Reformed Pastor
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At length, Brandon entirely subduing and quelling the stubborn hypocrisy of the culprit, the man turned towards him a look between wrath and beseechingness, muttering, --
Paul Clifford — Volume 04
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Some among them began to pray, not for succor, but final prayers, beseeching forgiveness for sins committed.
AMAGANSETT
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Filled with horror, he rushed instinctively to the temple to beseech Lord Vishnu to spare him.
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Amongst the mantras uttered were ones which beseeched Lord Indra to bless us with sons and grandsons to carry forth my ancestors' lineage.
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The word "beseech" means "to call alongside to exhort, to earnestly entreat.
Grace and Truth to You
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Eden beseeched the president for understanding regarding the terrible decisions that we have had to make.
Eisenhower 1956
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In the middle of this din, the Baron repeatedly implored silence; and when at length the instinct of polite discipline so far prevailed, that for a moment he obtained it, he hastened to beseech their attention 'unto a military ariette, which was a particular favourite of the Marechal Duc de
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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When Gertie continued silent, only making another long shaving fall from the ax handle, smiling on it as if it had been gold, Clytie raised her voice in a kind of beseeching scolding: Cassie Marie, cain’t you behave yourself, a locken up Amos thataway?
The Dollmaker
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O God, who by the resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ didst vouchsafe to give gladness unto the world: Grant, we beseech thee, that we, being holpen by the Virgin Mary, his Mother, may attain unto the joys of everlasting life; through the same Christ our Lord.
Archive 2006-04-01
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Miss Margland and Indiana, in secret exultation at his dinnerless state, had glided, with silent simpering, past him, flew to beseech his consent to take some nourishment.
Camilla
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Olive looked at Mrs. Burrage with a strange beseechingness, "I am very tired, I must rest.
The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)
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As the two women charged down the pool on the second lap with Quann clearly in the lead, the crowd rose to its feet and beseeched her for a world record.
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I beseech Thee by Thy Name, through which Thou hast enabled them that have recognized Thee to soar to the sublimest heights of the knowledge of Thee and empowered such as devoutly worship Thee to ascend into the precincts of the court of Thy holy favors, to aid me to turn my face towards Thy face, to fix mine eyes upon Thee, and to speak of Thy glory.
Prayers and Meditations
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They would reproduce the spectacle of silence amid wrong; a silence with not a word of protest, or vindication, or beseechment; a silence that was louder than the thunder that broke from the heavens that day when at 12 o'clock at noon was as dark as 12 o'clock at night.
T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him
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This is an assailer, and not debtor, a breaker and destroyer, and no sinner but a despoiler, we see him a judge but no beseecher, he comes for to fight and not to be overcome, a caster out and not here a dweller.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1
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Each commander began to beseech his immediate superior for reinforcements.
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Be so good as to give a cut just there, right across the umbilical region -- there lurks the fellow that for so many years tormented me on my first waking! or -- a stab there, I beseech you, it was the seat and source of that dreaded subsultus which so often threw my Book out of my hand, or drove my pen in a blur over the paper on which I was writing! ...
Letter to William Sotheby
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Suffer me, I beseech Thee, and give me grace to go over in my present remembrance the wanderings of my forepassed time, and to offer unto Thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
The Fourth Book
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She calls a story in Vogue on "new ways" to carry a handbag "twaddle" and goes on to beseech, "Isn't it time they all tried a little bit harder to be on our side ...?
Cathy Alter: In Defense of Women's Magazines
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Not here, pray, I beseech you; but, if I must, suffer me to excogitate these very things on the ground.
Clouds
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Wonderland of Knowledge Encyclopedia, 1965] [Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do] See the civil battology [vain repetitions] of the heathen in their supplications: "Let the parricide be dragged: we beseech thee.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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His voice aspired to sternness and crumbled into beseechment.
The Gunslinger
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With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching for mercy.
Great Expectations
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Athanasius' testimony in the preface to his list is telling: "I beseech you to bear patiently, if I also write, by way of remembrance, of matters with which you are acquainted.
Where Did The Bible Come From?
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That nation and generation might be called adulterous literally; for what else, I beseech you, was their irreligious polygamy than continual adultery?
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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Had a well-meaning stranger taken him into a family home, beseeching him to rest on a red ottoman ?
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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He beseeched the help of all civilized countries in combating trafficking of humans for prostitution and offered 15 billion dollars to fight AIDS in Africa.
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Mary! "he cried in passionate beseechment," I never meant to win your love to betray it.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
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I have prayed until I can pray no more, asked forgiveness for my sins, beseeched any I have offended in this life to pardon me.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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Wherewith crauing your fauor, and beseeching God to blesse your worship, with my good Ladie your wife, I most humbly take my leaue:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I pictured some hopeful bachelor, going down on one knee and beseeching his love to be his forever.
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Her unfortunate father, while tears poured from his eyes, went about the city beseeching the townspeople for money to hire an attorney who in the least would provide his daughter with a line of defense.
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Philippus beseeches you to create M. Holconius Priscus a duumvir of justice.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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In the middle of this din, the Baron repeatedly implored silence; and when at length the instinct of polite discipline so far prevailed that for a moment he obtained it, he hastened to beseech their attention 'unto a military ariette, which was a particular favourite of the Marechal Duc de Berwick'; then, imitating, as well as he could, the manner and tone of a French musquetaire, he immediately commenced, --
Waverley
