Example Sentences

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Recently I have besought him to consider how mortally embarrassed he would be if we were to be unexpectedly visited by the President.

From Time Magazine Archive

So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant.

From Time Magazine Archive

For long my brothers on the other side of the mountain have besought me to visit them, but never could I go for fear of my falcon.

From The Orange Fairy Book by Various

"And I, too," she said, "have besought my precious Saviour to be the God of my children also from their birth."

From Elsie's Womanhood by Finley, Martha

He besought the rioters to disperse, but he might as well have besought the waves breaking on Nastasket Beach to disperse.

From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Grimké, Archibald Henry