had besought
- past perfect of beseech.
Example Sentences
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For years, Belgians had besought their remote, unhappy King Baudouin to take a wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
As if I had besought them as a favour to bother my life out.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The Pharisees were very particular about washing before they sat down to meals, and this one who had besought the Lord to eat with him, "marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner."
From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary
Yes, she saw light at last--the light for which she had besought so fervently.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
Often, he had besought your father to sit to him; saying, that his silent circle of friends would never be complete, till your father consented to join them.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
