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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

A servant told me that his mistress had besought him not to leave her in her misfortune, and that they had gone off together, accompanied by Birton, no one knew whither.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

With her arms round his neck and her eyes fastened on his she had besought him to tell the truth, and he had been silent.

From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph

He had besought our moukri to allow him to ride, but in vain; every one cared only for himself.

From The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria by Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst von