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Returning to Madrid with his bride, King Alfonso XII, who had been a childless widower, swiftly begot two daughters, but died in 1885 without knowing whether or not he had begotten a son.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 100 years no Maharaja of Jaipur had begotten a male heir.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes he took a servant and his bed and he slept again in the old earthen house and in the old bed where he had begotten children and where O-lan had died.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Harmony is restored if you make out of the preterit a pluperfect, and read the passage thus:—When Noah was five hundred years old he had begotten Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas

No warrior, according to German faith, could gain entrance to Valhalla unless he had begotten a son.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison