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Example sentences for "beseeched"

Lexicographically close words:
beseche; beseching; besechyng; beseech; beseeche; beseeches; beseecheth; beseeching; beseechingly; beseechings
  1. Therefore Andouagni was not invented because magic failed, and therefore this great power was dreamed of, and his mercy was beseeched with prayers for good things.

  2. But nobody beseeched Andouagni to do anything.

  3. He beseeched the jury, therefore, to look at all the other circumstances that did indeed seem to bear hard upon the prisoner, in the light of his innocence, and not of his guilt, and that they would all fade into nothing.

  4. For the boy knew that God had employed one of his lowly creatures to save him--and beseeched that he might lie there to be looked at by the light of the taper, till he himself, as the pains went away, might fall asleep!

  5. At the door of the Pope’s apartments he met an aged priest, who beseeched him to remain.

  6. He beseeched our blessed Lord, whose humble servant and representative he was, to turn aside the wrath of heaven, to prevent the profanation of the holy places, to save his people.

  7. Full of horror and amazement, he beseeched them not to carry him before his Mistress, knowing how much he had offended her, she would have no mercy on him; this confirmed their belief, that they had found out the Offender.

  8. He beseeched the King to be pleased to give orders that the promises, which he had graciously made, might be speedily executed.

  9. When I discovered to her that Leon was still alive, she fell upon her knees and beseeched me to speed with her to him.

  10. Fain would I have pressed her to my bosom, and beseeched her to regard me as a brother.

  11. In the tenderest manner, then, she brought him the breeches and doublet of her dead husband, for whose soul she beseeched him to pray.

  12. The Nelson monument in Trafalgar Square was desecrated with recruiting circus-bills which would have delighted the heart of Barnum, and every taxicab wind-shield in town beseeched passers-by to "enlist for the duration of the war.

  13. Timorous friends beseeched me to beware of "saying too much" about the Germans in the hearing of these would-be soldiers of the Kaiser; but I escaped molestation and even heard next day that I had been "most fair.

  14. I beseeched her to compose herself, for that I might possibly be capable of assisting them.

  15. And upon the gallows he confessed he had been the death of about two hundred and twenty women in England and Scotland for the gain of twenty shillings a peece, and beseeched forgiveness.

  16. He beseeched his father to release him from his course of study, and he consented that he should return to the country-seat of a friend, and consider the matter.

  17. One of the best of his plays was performed in the presence of Madame de Maintenon, who liked it so well that she beseeched him to write a play which should contain no offensive sentiments.

  18. When night approached, and her friends beseeched her to retire to the cabin, she hid her face in her hands, and sobbed aloud.

  19. He beseeched her to believe, that she would not find the remotest occasion for any foreign troops in Scotland, as the whole nation was prepared faithfully to obey her.

  20. Mary, whose affliction it was to have husbands far inferior to herself in mental qualifications, beseeched Darnley to be more guarded in future.

  21. He earnestly beseeched his mother to treat her as her own daughter, and his brother to look upon her as a sister.

  22. Whereupon I turned my steps towards Sir George, and, on approaching him, beseeched him to have compassion on a poor famished fugitive from the Pentlands.

  23. The gray-haired governor of the fortress reserved for himself and his four sons the duty of accepting the challenge; the Infanta beseeched him in vain to desist from his enterprise, but he was firm: his mistress's honour was at stake.

  24. I told my colonel I didn't want the job and beseeched him to leave me with my brigade.

  25. My brother approached the closet door, and in the most soothing language beseeched him to open it; but he could get no other answer from Mr Faulkland than to beg he would leave him to himself.

  26. I beseeched him to return once more to the booth, to see if every one had got out safe, for I told him I had seen several of my female acquaintance there, for whom I was alarmed.

  27. I beseeched him to calm himself a little, and to permit me to send for my brother.

  28. When Schiller at length beseeched us to separate, and it was necessary we should obey, Oroboni burst into a flood of tears.

  29. I beseeched the Father of mercies to befriend my poor deserted Piero, even as myself, and to support his family no less than my own.

  30. Lee still showed his leadership qualities when he beseeched several Virginians, including Matthew Fontaine Maury, the brilliant marine cartographer, not to abandon Virginia when the state needed all her sons so badly.

  31. Governor Dunmore was then beseeched to pay for the cost of the powder, at least in sterling.

  32. I beseeched her to hear me, but she disregarded what I said.

  33. How much soever I beseeched them [to let me go], and even had recourse to main force, in order that by some means I might escape from their hands, yet I could not release myself.

  34. Instead of mingling in the tourney or the dance, he put on deep mourning, and at last presented himself before King Alfonso and beseeched him to set his father at liberty.

  35. But Amadis had strong reasons for acting as he did, for a letter from Oriana had informed him that she had borne him a little son, and she beseeched him not to leave Gaul until such time as he heard further from her.

  36. He beseeched the surgeon to intercede with me to take him out of the ship; for that the sailors, not sparing a small sustenance, had starved his mother.

  37. But so persistently had Joan begged and beseeched her uncle to take her to the terrible captain that he had yielded.

  38. Our young warrior thanked him on his knees, but beseeched he might not be removed from him, again protesting that he could no were deserve so well, as where he was animated by his royal presence.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beseeched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.