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Example sentences for "beseeching"

Lexicographically close words:
beseech; beseeche; beseeched; beseeches; beseecheth; beseechingly; beseechings; beseem; beseemed; beseemeth
  1. There you shall place the box, and the archbishop shall repeat his prayers, beseeching our Lord to direct the founding of the said Audiencia for His good service, and the pure administration of justice.

  2. But Barine gazed at her with pleading glances, beseeching aid, whispering amid her tears: "Help me, Charmian.

  3. I, who was everything to Caesar, beseeching mercy from his heir.

  4. Begirt th' Almighty throne Beseeching or besieging-- This tempted our attempt-- At one slight bound high overleapt all bound.

  5. The restored man's beseeching to abide with Christ.

  6. There came a leper to Him, beseeching Him, and kneeling down to Him, and saying unto Him, If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.

  7. The terrified Gerasenes beseeching Jesus to leave them.

  8. Thou hast sinned; that only infuses deeper tenderness into His beseeching tones.

  9. The instinct of the devout heart is to tell Christ all its troubles, great or small; and He does not need beseeching before He answers.

  10. Again the man's voice speaks, beseeching the direct opposite of what he really would have desired.

  11. Only this time, please," she murmured, bringing the beseeching softness of her eyes and lips very close to his set face.

  12. Old sorrow saps my strength; I may not flee The flame of passionate hunger in their eyes; Beseeching shade on shade--they hold me in their power.

  13. In great emotion, she followed up these representations with renewed beseeching that he would accompany her to a temporary concealment.

  14. Please let me take that old sword above the sitting-room mantel-piece," pleaded Charlie, with beseeching eyes.

  15. Is it not time that we all looked upward, beseeching God to forgive us, receive us, and make us his forever?

  16. As step after step might be proposed, prayer went up from the altar of those two women's hearts especially, beseeching God to recognize and bless each step that might be taken.

  17. Ask then Sir Percival to let us have the services of his page who seems a likely youth and bid this youth go hence after the two absent knights, Sir Gawaine and Sir Launcelot and give to them our message, beseeching their return.

  18. They joined in beseeching me to go to a separate chamber and strive for some refreshment.

  19. Then the carriage came, with a beseeching note.

  20. Jane Morgan studied the beseeching eyes a while, then dropped her own, and thought.

  21. His mother sat sewing some trifle, and just raised her eyes with that longing, beseeching glance mothers so often give to their sons.

  22. With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey; His warm breath blows her flix up as she lies: She trembling creeps upon the ground away And looks back to him with beseeching eyes.

  23. Of these three pictures the beseeching eyes of Dryden perhaps is more pathetic than the big round tears, certainly borrowed by Thomson from Shakspeare, because the former expression has more passion, and is therefore more poetical.

  24. Battleblast was heard, beseeching a blessing on the good things set before them, and on the distinguished friend of peace in whose honor they were assembled.

  25. Little by little, however, as the novelty of the air wore off, the consciousness that they were beseeching the Man of Righteousness to come out to them blent with their yearning sympathy for their melody.

  26. I immediately perceived he was a fool; for he fell down upon his knees, beseeching me to sell it him.

  27. She was arrested, and implored by her father, who threw himself in tears at her feet, beseeching her to renounce her creed, and not bring ruin on her brothers and parents and relatives.

  28. The Apostles looked up, beseeching her to remember them when she came to glory.

  29. He often prostrated himself before the abbot and brethren, beseeching that for God's mercy he might be allowed still greater self-renunciation and hard work.

  30. She dropped nimbly from the skylights' overhang to the alien's level and with looks as beseeching as his waved him back a step.

  31. Ramsey turned a beseeching look to Hugh but the general had halted the nurse with a private question and now proclaimed: "Th-the bishop's doing as well's could be exxxpected.

  32. Romuald at once sent a messenger to the Count, beseeching him in all humility to restore his beast to the poor man.

  33. He rolled a pair of wild, beseeching eyes around the table.

  34. It was only a second that he hung with his wild beseeching eyes on Smaltz's scared face while his frail, old body acted as a wedge for the racing water and the rocks.

  35. She handed them to Jack, saying in a low, almost beseeching tone: "Will the white man Jack bring em back Chiquita's medicine teeth when the beaver cuts the trees?

  36. Because we were to-day to embark upon the deep, dark waters of this lake, we yesterday had a little ceremony on the shore, beseeching the dread Under-Water People to have pity upon us and allow us to pass in safety over their domain.

  37. Then rising, he answered: "Commander of the Faithful, I crave your pardon humbly, for my persistence in beseeching your Highness to do an action which appears on the face of it to be without any meaning.

  38. The hangman did as he was bid, and was tying the cord firmly, when he was stopped by the voice of the Jewish doctor beseeching him to pause, for he had something very important to say.

  39. The cord was placed round the Jew's neck, and his feet had already ceased to touch the ground when the voice of the tailor was heard beseeching the executioner to pause one moment and to listen to what he had to say.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beseeching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appealing; begging; imploring; piteous; pleading; prayer; supplicant; supplication