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One Warsaw cardiologist reports that his intellectual friends have been "beseeching us for disability certificates so they can stay at home and avoid compromising themselves."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then try again, and reverse your method, for hitherto you have been beseeching gifts from God, asking for gifts from Jesus, and have forgotten to give.

From The Romance of the Soul by Staveley, Lilian

Earnestly I have been beseeching our Heavenly Father to bring my days of exile to an end, and to receive me into the heavenly country after which our hearts must ever yearn.

From Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland by Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)

I assure you that since I came into these rooms they have been beseeching me, as loudly as inanimate things can not to desert them.

From The Brown Study by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

"Yes, and you would all have been beseeching him not to till now, if I had not taken him by the scruff of the neck and dropped him into the other!"

From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft