The tale saith that an the fiend be filled he becomes aweary and besets not them the which do pass him by in peace.
The tale saith that and the fiend be filled, he becomes aweary and besetsnot them the which do pass him by in peace.
Our form of government is somewhat exclusive, and it is a penalty that we have ever paid for its advantages, to be liable to sudden and malevolent accusations, for any evil turn of fortune that besets the Republic.
Hast thou bethought thee of turning the eyes of the council on the danger whichbesets their heiress?
It is a limitation of faculty that besetsthem in a good many directions, but it does not work anywhere more fatally than it does in their attitude towards the Gospel.
Yes, and you take part thereby in the greatest curse that besets our country, and are, by countenancing the drink habit, guilty of the blood of souls.
The same thing besets us all; we all of us try to get away from the centre, and dwell contented on the surface.
For all your spirits are so stout, For matters that are vain; Yet sin besets you round about, You are in Satan's chain.
He besets us behind and before, and all dangerous service is safe if begun and ended in Him.
The very same difficulty in living in quiet reliance on a power which is perceptible by no sense, besets us.
Another serious worry that besets many parents is that pertaining to the courtship or engagement of their children.
This fact in itself should lead us to be suspicious of every worry that besets us.
For when worry besets you, is harassing you on every hand, how can you possibly devote your wisdom, your highest intelligence to safeguarding the welfare of the one you love.
Though man is poor and dependant, pride is a sin which very easily besets him.
Again the sprite Besets him, morning, noon, and night!
This it is that puts the translators to the strangest shifts and fetches, and besets the version, in spite of their best skill, with anti-Chaucerisms as thick as blackberries.
A similar feeling of puzzlement to that which I have indicated, besets one not unfrequently in the contemplation of men and women.
The peculiar temptation which besetsmen of letters, the curious playing with thought and emotion, the tendency to analyse and take everything to pieces, has two results, and neither aids his happiness nor even his literary success.
And yet, this self-consciousness, which so continually besets us, is in itself a misery and a galling chain.
Nurse was in a dilemma which deservedly besets people who tell untruths.
Greater hazard besets us now, Don Luis, than hath befallen us since we left Palos.
Thou knowest the evil influence that besets my brother, and that it hath disaffected a large portion of his nobles as well as of his cities.
The preparatory training for the conflict consists in putting away (1) our own grossness; (2) the sin that besets us.
In the strength of his faith the Christian begins to wrestle with the sin which is still indwelling in him and which besets him from without.
Doctrine does not save from hell, but it does save from many a snare that besets the feet of man.
The first sin that besets us is forgetfulness of God.
The sins which we ask you to forgive, you caused us to commit; the traps from which we implore you to deliver us, you set for us; and the Satan who besets us is yourself.
The special type of corruption which we find in this incident is one that besets the Church always.
And now I would endeavour to bring about peace, and see if an end cannot be put to the evil luck that besets you kinsmen.
But it is not an imperfect fellow-man, it is not a perfect angel, who besets us behind and before, and is acquainted with, all our ways.
Look, for illustration, at the aspirations of the drunkard to be delivered from the vice that easily besets him.
He inclines to the sin which so easily besets him, precisely as you and I incline to the bosom-sin which so easily besets us.
In Christ's temptations we may see all that besets the young man.
In fact the danger of all collectors is this alluring temptation which besets other people in other ways.
The danger of trusting in outward possession and of thinking that God's mercy is our property besets all Churches.
The sin of Nehemiah's days is still to be seen; the same temptation which beset those Jerusalem Jews, besets us even in these more enlightened days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
