Verb (used with object) : They besought him to go at once. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Earnestly did I beseech, but to no avail. From Dictionary.com.
He looked from the druid to the high priestess, his expression beseeching. From Wordnik.com. [WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE] Reference
24. stretched ... hand -- Earnestness, especially in beseeching, is denoted by the figure (compare Job 11: 13; Ps 68: 31; 88: 9). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Nhlanhla was "beseeching" police to come to Shell House and that the last thing Nhlanhla wanted was to take action. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
All crowd round Diaz, beseeching him to save them. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
And fond beseeching eyes, where lay her mother lone. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
Macedonia standing and beseeching him and saying: Pass over into. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
He looked up at Nan with a baleful, beseeching expression. From Wordnik.com. [Country House] Reference
Madge caught Tom by the sleeve and looked at him with beseeching eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Rosa looks at the monkey and she at him; his eyes are soft and beseeching. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives That Came Before You, The Lives That Never End] Reference
Macedonian, beseeching him, and saying: Come over into Macedonia and help us. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
Both knelt before him, beseeching with tears to allow them to remain together. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
On the door-step he hesitated, looking at the child with beseeching dark eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The boy's eyes were almost beseeching as he answered, "I've come to stay, sir.". From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Wikkey's beseeching eyes rose up before Lawrence, and he stammered out hastily. From Wordnik.com. [Wikkey A Scrap] Reference
But if Dole gambles on beseeching Powell, Ellsworth had better have a few backups. From Wordnik.com. [Playing To Powell] Reference
Crowds ruled the streets, jumping on tanks, beseeching guilt-ridden soldiers to defect. From Wordnik.com. [The People Vs. The Plotters] Reference
And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
She ran round and round the cage, calling him, scolding him and beseeching him to speak to her. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
Entertainment -- beseeching retailers to help him "introduce a new generation to these superheroes.". From Wordnik.com. [QUICK HIT: Stan Lee's super-powered pitch to comics retailers] Reference
I must have learned the beseeching nature of the experience long before I understood any of the words. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Fridkis: Letting Atheists Pray, Too] Reference
The Rhinegrave, full of remorse, embraces Silvana, beseeching her forgiveness, and the lovers are united. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Haven't you noticed how badly she looks since I came home; what a beseeching way she has of looking at me?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And through it all, a pleading, beseeching appeal for sympathy ran as he half doubtingly held out his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
From home came letters now beseeching, now commanding her to return, and at length cutting off her allowance. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Presently a messenger came from the Earl of Warwick, beseeching the king to send aid to his son, the Black Prince. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
And there came a leper to him, beseeching him and kneeling down, said to him: If thou wilt thou canst make me clean. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
Hal is outside, and his beseeching whines have swelled to awful howls that remind me of neglected duties in the tent. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
He consoles her, beseeching her to cheer up and be faithful to him, and then tells her, that he comes of wealthy people. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Instead of beseeching us all to get vaccinated, they're now urging most healthy people between the ages of 2 and 64 not to. From Wordnik.com. [THE ECONOMICS OF THE FLU] Reference
And Absalom answered Joab: I sent to thee beseeching thee to come to me, that I might send thee to the king, to say to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
With these beseeching words, with tearful eyes that brought tears to the eyes of the colonel as well, the colonel said at once. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Old football friends, horrified by what they were watching, called L.A. television and radio stations, beseeching him to give up. From Wordnik.com. [He Could Run... ...But He Couldn't Hide] Reference
Mrs. Darling found that all her beseeching was in vain; and she could only hope for the best, and keep herself as quiet as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
His big brown eyes were almost human in their beseeching, and plainly said, "You cannot have forgotten -- you will surely let me out!". From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
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