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  • In the midst of the difficulty I summoned a great deal of courage and wrote to my friend General J.F.B. Marshall, the Treasurer of the Hampton Institute, putting the situation before him and beseeching him to lend me the two hundred and fifty dollars on my own personal responsibility.   (source)
  • "O Oysters, come and walk with us!"
    The Walrus did beseech.
    "A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk,
    Along the briny beach:"   (source)
    beseech = request
  • I stretched out my hand, like a drowning person beseeching rescue.†   (source)
  • Tariq was still speaking, his voice hushed, then high, beseeching, then reasoning; his face hopeful, then stricken.†   (source)
  • Even without looking at Sophie, he could hear her heart beseeching him in silent desperation.†   (source)
  • Mother looked beseechingly over her shoulder.†   (source)
  • And I will say this for Draco: I Ic isn't shrinking away from his duty, he seems glad of a chance to prove himself, excited at the prospect —" Narcissa began to cry in earnest, gazing beseechingly all the while at Snape.†   (source)
  • 'Acknowledge, we humbly beseech thee, a sheep of thine own fold, a lamb of thine own flock, a sinner of thine own redeeming.†   (source)
  • Dreams pursued memories, courted and danced and coupled with them and they became one, and the gaunt, beseeching phantoms that called to him had the rag-wrapped feet of Washington's regulars and the faces of his mother and father and Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan and the Beales and Earl Grayson.†   (source)
  • She turned to the king, beseechingly, but he, too, looked away, his face crumpled with distaste.†   (source)
  • He took her hand in mock-beseeching, but she pulled it away.†   (source)
  • My parents were suddenly still for a moment—like animals trapped in ice—their eyes frozen open and beseeching whoever walked above them to release them now, please.†   (source)
  • But he also had to eat his share, sometimes more than his share, because Matt could not resist those beseeching eyes.†   (source)
  • It was mean of me to treat her that way, and now she was looking at me, oh so helplessly, with her pale face and beseeching eyes.†   (source)
  • If the dead can appear to the living, Lourdes beseeches God through tears, allow Victor to show himself so she can say good-bye.†   (source)
  • I recalled the mothers who had to be restrained as they lay across the casket, beseeching to be buried with their son or daughter.†   (source)
  • The reverend had so much beseeching to do for the royal family, I thought we'd be stuck in church for a week.†   (source)
  • She cast another beseeching glance at Jace, but he was staring down at the wineglass by his left hand, half-full of purplish red liquid.†   (source)
  • I stared at him, my eyes beseeching.†   (source)
  • They shot anyone they caught stealing, because while the faithful crowded into the churches begging forgiveness for their sins and beseeching God to stay his fury, thieves were running through the ruins slicing off ears with earrings and fingers with rings, not stopping to ascertain whether the victims were dead or only trapped in the cave-in.†   (source)
  • We beseech you—†   (source)
  • He won't be able to find a certain clue that might be obvious to the audience at home and he'll look beseechingly at the camera.†   (source)
  • She adopted him as a son who would share her solitude and relieve her from the involutary laudanum that her mad beseeching had thrown into Remedios' coffee.†   (source)
  • Give us, we beseech thee, wisdom to discern this evil, and power to overcome it.†   (source)
  • —beseeched Lemry to prohibit Ellerby from driving it to meets, including those at our own school, and to put a major squelch on his sacrilegious antics whenever he is any way representing the school or the team.†   (source)
  • Back in our room, Precious Auntie beseeched me.†   (source)
  • Mary, Mother of God, we beseech you to cast a benevolent eye over these children, to guide them and bless them as they make their way in the world.†   (source)
  • Worried that Ang Dorje was so distraught that he might refuse to go down, Hutchison beseeched him to descend from the Col immediately.†   (source)
  • Fathers, I beseech you to seek out your straying sons and rescue them by keeping their dreams alive.†   (source)
  • "I want some swimming goggles," he panted, defiant and beseeching.†   (source)
  • Denise spun in my direction, arms flung out, her body beseeching me to set the woman straight.†   (source)
  • They seemed to watch him with a kind of despairing, beseeching reproach.†   (source)
  • Hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech Thee ...†   (source)
  • Captains of riverboats had heard about the virus by this time, and they refused to stop their boats anywhere along the length of the river in Bumba, even though people beseeched them from the banks.†   (source)
  • When he didn't answer, she gave him a beseeching smile.†   (source)
  • We beseech You for mercy and for Your protection in this outreach of the Discalced Carmelites ....†   (source)
  • I say beseechingly.†   (source)
  • Besides, the almost beseeching way the men looked at him was irritating.†   (source)
  • Miss Sessions sent a beseeching look toward the lady from London.†   (source)
  • She looks up at him, her eyes beseeching.†   (source)
  • He looks at me beseechingly.†   (source)
  • She said it beseechingly, trying to win a short reprieve, but did not push for it.†   (source)
  • 'Will you get out of here?' he yelped beseechingly, and shoved Aarfy over with all his strength.†   (source)
  • "We beseech you," Ann adds.†   (source)
  • He's almost finished.... The Mystic spread her fingers and whispered beseeching words of transformation.†   (source)
  • She went to the Maid and beseeched her to lend her courage to Arya and Sansa, to guard them in their innocence.†   (source)
  • Speaking with a respectful deference that I did not feel, I explained the plight at the rectory, and, flattering him about his great strength and fortitude, beseeched his help.†   (source)
  • I secured the doors shut and beseeched him, "Dear husband, I beg you for news of my friend."†   (source)
  • Then Abdullah raised them in a dua, beseeching Allah for protection.†   (source)
  • Barrius's eyes beseech the courtyard, seeking out anyone willing to offer him a shred of pity.†   (source)
  • In all the times his boys prayed, Cesar had beseeched them never to ask for victory.†   (source)
  • "Why, Felicia?" her best friend, Herminia, beseeched her, all the while rubbing Felicia's forehead with herbs behind the nurse's back.†   (source)
  • Can't we bury the hatchet at a time like this?" said Lawson beseechingly.†   (source)
  • "Please" I beseeched the zookeeper.†   (source)
  • I knew the physical pain I was causing her, but instead of grimacing she now twisted her features into something kind and beseeching.†   (source)
  • "We beseech your Majesty —" said Glozelle, but Miraz had flung out of the tent and they could hear him bawling out his acceptance to Edmund.†   (source)
  • And when at last I opened my eyes the silence which had enfolded me had given place to a pervasive murmur, the sound from the suppliant lips and beseeching throats of the multitude.†   (source)
  • "Yalla," he beseeched her.†   (source)
  • He is the way, and all this beseeching and suchlike is blasphemy.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: Come come, take a seat I beseech you, you'll get pneumonia.†   (source)
  • As he lay in the darkness after the light was out he saw the green circle left in his eyes by the candle flame, and in its whirling, pulsing frame he saw the frantic, beseeching eyes of James Grew.†   (source)
  • I beseeched the begrimed and motionless chandeliers.†   (source)
  • Do this for me, I beseech you?†   (source)
  • Show me if I am wrong, I beseech Thee.†   (source)
  • He bent down and in a horrified, piteous, beseeching voice he began to call her name until she stirred.†   (source)
  • I do beseech you, sir, have patience.   (source)
    beseech = ask
  • She looked at him beseechingly, but he shook his head and she turned away bitterly.†   (source)
  • Owen cried, beseeching me; but Barb Wiggin wished to undertake the task herself.†   (source)
  • " ....Deliver us from evil ...." they all beseeched.†   (source)
  • Just a little more beseeching, a few amens, and we'd head home for cold pigeon pie and sour pickles.†   (source)
  • They did a pack of beseeching at Trinity.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry —" He addressed Lupin more than any of them, beseeching him.†   (source)
  • The Demon's hands were outstretched, beseeching a sky whose churning elements responded to his call.†   (source)
  • She opened her eyes and stared at me, beseeching.†   (source)
  • Zeus fixed him with a beseeching gaze before reluctantly sitting.†   (source)
  • They are beseeching the Warrior for protection, asking the Crone to light their way.†   (source)
  • She reached her hands out, beseeching, though she didn't know who she was begging.†   (source)
  • Daily he beseeches me to make Ser Ryman dangle Tully, never mind how.†   (source)
  • 'I want someone to tell me,' Lieutenant Scheisskopf beseeched them all prayerfully.†   (source)
  • You mean you can see where other folks did their doodlebug or beseeching or hex or charm?†   (source)
  • She stops and touches her neck, glances beseechingly at Mr. Post.†   (source)
  • Rosina stood there, beseeching with her eyes, pleading for forgiveness.†   (source)
  • She would forever retain a dim impression that the child had continued to look back, beseeching.†   (source)
  • "And the nightingale," Mama's voice just ahead was beseeching, "is the nightingale with us yet?"†   (source)
  • Outside the beseeching cries rose and fell, and drew nearer.†   (source)
  • I cried, but I may as well have been beseeching the air.†   (source)
  • The convent girls began to wail in unison, beseeching the Holy Mother.†   (source)
  • I feel I can rely on you, Janine, Aunt Lydia would have said, raising her eyes from the page at last and fixing Janine with that look of hers, through the spectacles, a look that managed to be both menacing and beseeching, all at once.†   (source)
  • When people speak this way, they're likely disclosing, revealing, confessing some catastrophe, beseeching the listener.†   (source)
  • She gazed beseechingly at Signor Luciano, at Nico, at Rocco, but the men kept their heads down, carefully ignoring her.†   (source)
  • Harry beseeched to Luna and Dean.†   (source)
  • You proliferate weapons of mass destruction, but it is the Pope who travels the world beseeching leaders to use restraint.†   (source)
  • He recalls with embarrassment, and a kind of shrivelling self-loathing, the puppyish condescension he used to display when paying out his money to some pitiful shopworn streetgirl — the beseeching look in her eyes, and how large and rich and compassionate he felt himself to be, as if the favours about to be conferred were his, not hers.†   (source)
  • Beneath the window, the submerged face of Robert Langdon stared up at him with desperate and beseeching eyes.†   (source)
  • He had removed Mary Magdalene's arms, above the elbows, so that her gesture of beseeching the assembled audience would seem all the more an act of supplication—and all the more helpless.†   (source)
  • It took the headmaster a few seconds to recognize Mr. Merrill, who was standing at the foot of the stage in his pea jacket and wearing his watch cap and gawking at the figure who beseeched us from the podium.†   (source)
  • I bobbed a clumsy curtsy and walked as fast as I could with the limp burden in my arms, beseeching with every step.†   (source)
  • In it, I beseeched people to talk about rape and to listen to articulate victims when they had a story to tell.†   (source)
  • Septon Cellador led the men on the barricade in a prayer, beseeching the Warrior to give them strength.†   (source)
  • Lady Markham looks at her husband beseechingly, that he might talk no more of politics, and he nods, cowed.†   (source)
  • We humbly beseech Thee most mercifully to receive these our prayers which we offer unto Thy Divine Majesty; beseeching Thee to inspire continually the universal church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord: And grant, that all they that do confess Thy holy Name may agree in the truth of Thy holy word, and live in unity and godly love.†   (source)
  • Devan was a good boy, but he wore the flaming heart proudly on his doublet, and his father had seen him at the nightfires as dusk fell, beseeching the Lord of Light to bring the dawn.†   (source)
  • Ann looks to me, beseeching.†   (source)
  • Her Grace gave her hand to Hizdahr zo Loraq, made him her king and consort, restored the mortal art as he beseeched her.†   (source)
  • They looked at me with expressions that came directly from their mother—proud, enduring, long-suffering, beseeching.†   (source)
  • But when a man of wealth passed they were as tender and pitiful as fledglings, beseeching with soft open mouths and limpid eyes, their begging bowls meekly held before them and altogether changed with an artfulness which surely my children had not at their command.†   (source)
  • Luciana was touched by Nately's forlorn air, but broke loudly into robust laughter again the moment she stepped outside into the sunny street with Yossarian and heard Hungry Joe beseeching them from the window to come back and take their clothes off, because he really was a photographer from Life magazine.†   (source)
  • There wasn't no beseeching or hex or witchery he ever heard of that could call a tornado and turn a stormy lake into glass.†   (source)
  • His last letter mentions the rebels only briefly before beseeching me to ship him some old tapestries of Robert's.†   (source)
  • A White man put a hex, they felt it like a bump in their land-sense; a beseeching was a nasty stink; a warding was a buzz when they came close.†   (source)
  • he had shrieked beseechingly through lips that could not open as the plane fell and he dangled without weight by the top of his head until Huple managed to seize the controls back and leveled the plane out down inside the crazy, craggy, patchwork canyon of crashing antiaircraft fire from which they had climbed away and from which they would now have to escape again.†   (source)
  • She even said a prayer before she crawled beneath her coverlet, beseeching the Mother for sweet dreams.†   (source)
  • The seven septons in the silver robes stood behind the bier, beseeching the Father Above to judge Lord Tywin justly.†   (source)
  • He was cold, and he thought of Snowden, who had never been his pal but was a vaguely familiar kid who was badly wounded and freezing to death in the puddle of harsh yellow sunlight splashing into his face through the side gunport when Yossarian crawled into the rear section of the plane over the bomb bay after Dobbs had beseeched him on the intercom to help the gunner, please help the gunner.†   (source)
  • A dozen scruffy hedge knights were kneeling before the Warrior, beseeching him to bless the swords they had piled at his feet.†   (source)
  • Everyone in the room, even Ralph in the long run, knew that he was only making things harder for her; only his mother realized that he was beseeching comfort rather than bringing it.†   (source)
  • As they pulled out into the road again, the other man began to lift a beer bottle, and stared beseechingly, with his mouth full, at the man with the guitar.†   (source)
  • No dream had produced in me that lasting reverberation since the morning nearly eight years before, soon after my mother's burial, when, struggling up from the seaweed-depths of a nightmare, I dreamed I peered out the window of the room at home in which I was still sleeping and caught sight of the open coffin down in the windswept, drenched garden, then saw my mother's shrunken, cancer-ravaged face twist toward me in the satin vault and gaze at me beseechingly through eyes filmed over with indescribable torture.†   (source)
  • Oh Lord, I beseech thee ... Madam had stopped and was watching us.†   (source)
  • Pour forth we beseech thee, O Lord, thy grace into our hearts.†   (source)
  • If I should die, I beseech my lord to see that my letters are delivered.†   (source)
  • Max guessed she was a weather worker, hired to beseech the wind and seas for a swift, safe passage.†   (source)
  • Nor did the Swiss beseech their sons to shed the blood of French infidels.†   (source)
  • Quite kindly) I beseech Your Grace, go back.†   (source)
  • "I beseech your Majesty —" began Drinian.†   (source)
  • Nobody would even know what I was pointin' at if old Scrooge didn't keep givin' speeches to himself—'If there is any person in the town who feels emotion caused by this man's death, show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!'†   (source)
  • We humbly beseech ...†   (source)
  • "Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers—" I beseech thee, O Lord, by Thy great mercy take us home, by the hand of Colonel Regan, take us home, in all Thy glory, take us home, ad astra, ad astra, ad astra ... Ruth tugged on my skirt.†   (source)
  • MOST HEARTILY WE BESEECH THEE with thy favor to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord King George, and to replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit"—the minister paused to draw breath—"and bless our gracious Queen Charlotte, their Royal Highnesses George Prince of Wales, the Princess Dowager of Wales, and all the Royal Family ..."†   (source)
  • Your suspicions are incorrect and ill founded, and I beseech you to use whatever relationships with which you are bestowed to return home at once my most senior staff member, be they, these relationships, with the police, the politicians, or with her abductors themselves.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Lord of Light, we beseech you, cast your fiery eye upon us and keep us safe and warm," they sang to the flames, "for the night is dark and full of terrors."†   (source)
  • Felicity slides both of her feet to the floor with a loud stomp, and with a glance I beseech her to behave.†   (source)
  • We beseech Thee also to save and defend all Christian Kings, Princes, and Governors; and specially Thy servant George, our King: that under him we may be godly and quietly governed.†   (source)
  • I beseech you to send for her, to take her hand in marriage, and to wed your House to mine for all time.†   (source)
  • We humbly beseech Thee most mercifully to receive these our prayers which we offer unto Thy Divine Majesty; beseeching Thee to inspire continually the universal church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord: And grant, that all they that do confess Thy holy Name may agree in the truth of Thy holy word, and live in unity and godly love.†   (source)
  • Armor called his father-in-law Mr. Miller ever since Al throwed him out of the house into the snow that time he came to say Al Junior was dying cause the family committed the sin of using hexes and beseechings.†   (source)
  • God, we beseech Thee that they may ever be the children, the boy and girl, the man and woman, which this good man would have desired them to be.†   (source)
  •   O GOD, the Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them, thy saving health unto all nations.†   (source)
  • And Lord, if it be Thy will, that this sorrow must come upon my husband, then I most humbly beseech Thee in Thy mercy that through this tribulation Thou openest my husband's heart, and awake his dear soul, that he may find comfort in Thee that the world cannot give, and see Thee more clearly, and come to Thee.†   (source)
  • They continued to gaze into the other's eyes; Hannah's eyes were burning because she felt she must not blink; and after some moments a long, crying groan broke from the younger woman and in a low and shaken voice she said, "Oh I do beseech my God that it not be so, and Hannah whispered, "So do I; and again they became still, knowing little and seeing nothing except each other's suffering eyes; and it was thus that they were when they heard footsteps on the front porch.†   (source)
  • And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our selves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end.†   (source)
  • Clennam besought him not to delay a moment.†   (source)
    besought = asked strongly or begged for something
  • He besought Monseigneur not to enrage himself.†   (source)
  • Clennam remained until everything possible to be done had been skilfully and promptly done—the poor belated wanderer in a strange land movingly besought that favour of him—and lingered by the bed to which he was in due time removed, until he had fallen into a doze.†   (source)
  • That worthy lady being unable to obtain one, and being steadfastly denied admission, Mr Meagles besought Arthur to essay once more what he could do.†   (source)
  • She besought him, more pathetically and earnestly, with her little supplicatory hand, than she could have done in any words.†   (source)
  • Her mistress only disengaged her dress from the beseeching hands, said to Rigaud, 'Wait here till I come back!' and ran out of the room.†   (source)
    beseeching = asking or begging
  • On the very next morning, as he was turning in Bleeding Heart Yard by Mrs Plornish's corner, Mrs Plornish stood at the door waiting for him, and mysteriously besought him to step into Happy Cottage.†   (source)
    besought = asked strongly or begged for something
  • These preparations were in an advanced stage of progress, and his daughter Amy had come back with her work, when Clennam presented himself; whom he most graciously received, and besought to join their meal.†   (source)
  • Here the good woman pointed to the little window, whence her son might be seen sitting disconsolate in the tuneless groves; and again shook her head and wiped her eyes, and besought him, for the united sakes of both the young people, to exercise his influence towards the bright reversal of these dismal events.†   (source)
  • 'Edmund,' said Mrs Sparkler, 'open (now, very carefully, I beg and beseech, for you are so very awkward) the mother of pearl box on my little table there, and give Mr Merdle the mother of pearl penknife.'†   (source)
  • Far-faint, as he wakened, they besought him with lessening whir.†   (source)
  • Then, turning to him, "Oh, do let's go back, Bernard," she besought; "I do so hate it here."†   (source)
  • He stroked his flat, white cheek against the smoothness of her dress, looking at her beseechingly.†   (source)
  • He looked up beseechingly.†   (source)
  • Once more his anguished eyes beseeched the window, and then a fit of horrible rage convulsed him and he writhed and beat the wall beside him.†   (source)
  • And the next day passed and the next and the children cried out for food and they would not be comforted and O-lan looked at Wang Lung, beseeching him for the children, and he saw at last that the thing was to be done.†   (source)
  • Or when the coach came out of the gym-supply room with a new basketball, tens of arms waving around, beseeching, it would be Simon, appearing passive, that he flung it to.†   (source)
  • Then he arose and went on his knees, and besought leave of the king's grace to show that this their fault was not through want of knowledge, neither through drunkenness, but by the influence of some spirit that was in the hall.†   (source)
  • When Cuckoo would have answered angrily to this, Wang Lung besought her and led her out, saying, "That one does not know what words mean, now."†   (source)
  • "128 The story is told of a Confucian scholar who besought the twenty-eighth Buddhist patriarch, Bodhidharma, "to pacify his soul."†   (source)
  • Then Wang Lung said, beseeching her, "Think and remember a little slight young lad, tall for his years, but not yet a man, and I did not dream he dared to try a woman."†   (source)
  • Then the young maid put her hands together piteously and cried as though she would die of weeping and fear and her little body was all trembling with her fear, and she looked from this face to that, beseeching with her weeping.†   (source)
  • On Hanson's next weary entrance he besought "Could you fix that up?"†   (source)
  • Martin went from house to house, beseeching them, offering to treat them without charge.†   (source)
  • "Sure—will yeh, Henry?" the tall soldier beseeched.†   (source)
  • "Take me out of here!" she besought Kells, and he led her out instantly.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she raised her eyes with the beseeching earnestness of a child.†   (source)
  • She strained at her bonds, as if to lift her hands beseechingly.†   (source)
  • At this I begged and besought that we might lie down and sleep.†   (source)
  • To those he knew well he made frantic appeals, beseeching them by name.†   (source)
  • The woman in black came forward and again besought the mourner.†   (source)
  • She flinched, looked at Guy beseechingly.†   (source)
  • "Girlsh," said the man, beseechingly, "I allus trea's yehs ri', didn' I?†   (source)
  • He leaned forward, thick capable hands on thick sturdy thighs, mature and slow, yet beseeching.†   (source)
  • Please don't go!" she called, beseechingly.†   (source)
  • "Say," he said, beseechingly, "come wid me a minit an' I'll tell yer why."†   (source)
  • As though he had been rehearsing his speech he instantly besought: "Saw your husband driving away.†   (source)
  • But Dr. Heidegger besought them to stay a moment.†   (source)
  • As if I had besought them as a favor to bother my life out.†   (source)
  • 'I hope you are not angry with me, sir?' said Oliver, raising his eyes beseechingly.†   (source)
  • He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.†   (source)
  • He besought the jailer one day to let him have a companion, were it even the mad abbe.†   (source)
  • Her silence besought an explanation of him more loudly than words.†   (source)
  • To this person the attention of the reader is first besought.†   (source)
  • Trample not upon thy beseeching worms, O noble Majesty!†   (source)
  • He had besought her to come with him to the 'temple.'†   (source)
  • "No, dear, no!" said Dorothea, beseechingly, crushed by opposing fears.†   (source)
  • I am bearded and bullied by a shop-boy, and she beseeches him to pity me and remember I am ill!'†   (source)
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