Example Sentences

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He proves his love towards you; he has kept his friendship for you; he has besought you; 'Brother, come let us talk together about our beliefs, and see whose faith is the right one.'

From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan

Every Khan with whom I have conversed has besought me to lay his case before the "English Vakil" at Tihran.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

My poor mother!—Your rashness and folly have made her more miserable than you can be.—Yet she has besought my father to grant your request.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel