When they were over, all those present raised their hands to Heaven, and besought God to grant victory to the faithful.
Consequently Mohammed Ahmed, in the presence of all the inferior Sheikhs and fikis, came in the most humble manner before Mohammed Sherif and besought his forgiveness.
We of course all made professions of fidelity; and as I had been previously warned to ask him to give me the "beia," or oath of allegiance, I now besought this honour.
In vain the Constable of Castile besought the stiff old Lord Admiral to take shelter in a coach.
He sent a messenger to Queen Uta, and besought her that she would come to the court with her daughter and her women-folk.
While the youth besought her so kindly, Uta and Gernot began to pray her, and her faithful kinsmen also, that she should tarry, for she had few kinsmen among Siegfried's men.
Siegfried of the Netherland would have taken leave also, but when King Gunther knew his intent, he besought him lovingly to tarry, the which Siegfried had not done but for Gunther's sister's sake.
I besought the hard-hearted Afghans to let me have one of their spare horse blankets; with chattering teeth and in a most piteous voice I vainly appealed for hours together to the cruel barbarians bundled up in their warm fur skin cloaks.
Vasishtha said:--The king being so besought accepted their prayer, and thus became the sole manager of the earth, bounded by the seven seas on all sides.
I had first of all besought Nick to go up into the drawing-room and give the money back.
Bad birds flying through the land (the British agents) had besought them to take up the bloody hatchet.
Most good-naturedly they drank my health in Charles's vin de grave, at four shillings the bottle; and soon I was astonished to find myself launched upon the story of my adventures, which they had besought me to tell them.
Therefore he, Frederick of Telramund, and his wife Ortrud, by right of inheritance, besought the King to make them Duke and Duchess of Brabant.
He made a low obeisance to the King and besoughtsympathy for the sad tale he was about to tell.
The shopkeepers stood in front and cried their wares, and besought customers.
He besought the king not to permit Spain, standing on the neck of the provinces, to grasp from that elevation at other empires.
Feeling his death wounds, Roland besought Turpin to let him bring together the bodies of his fallen comrades that they might receive the blessing of the archbishop.
In the beginning of the battle Olivier besought Roland to recall the emperor by blowing the olifant, whose sound could be heard for many leagues, but Roland refused.
Then he offered some of his wealth to all present, and, kissing the king's hand, besoughthim to take Babieca.
Sohrab was moved with tenderness for his unknown opponent, and besought him to tell him if he was Rustem, but Rustem declared that he was only a servant of that chief.
Too late Eurymachus sprang up andbesought the monarch to grant them their lives if they made good their waste and returned to their homes.
Their troubled minds were set at rest by Vyasa, who assured them that Draupadi had five different times in former existences besought Siva for a good husband.
He besought Ukko and the mistress of the forest and her king, and at last, with their aid, the moose was captured and led home to Louhi.
In his absence, Bradamant besought Charlemagne not to compel her to marry Leo unless he could defeat her in single combat; and her angry parents, on learning of this, took her from the court and shut her up in the tower of Rocca Forte.
When Wainamoinen further besought her, she told him that she would consider him a hero when he had split a golden hair with edgeless knives and snared a bird's egg with an invisible snare.
The people now besought Moses as usual to instruct them in the Torah, but he replied, "I have no permission to do so.
Hermann, who disputed against us at Geneva, besought me to appoint a day for conferring with him.
I besought them, however, in every way that I could think of, not to make any account of me in their determination.
After he had told us that he had come to serve the Church of God, we besought him not to take it ill, that we had not on the first day of his arrival offered him the pulpit.
Nothing really good could be expected to come from so inauspicious a commencement, saving that I always besought the Lord that he would make you apt to teach in the ministry, and sufficient for himself.
And when Felice knew what he meditated she wept, and with many bitter tearsbesought him not to leave her.
But Zoulvisia his wife grew pale when she heard whom he had brought, and besought him to feed the old woman and send her away, as she would cause mischief to befall them.
On their knees, an entirely new experience for the proud Florentines, the Signoria besought the Emperor's clemency.
She besought her coachman to try and upset her rival, hoping that she might fall into the river below and be drowned!
When she had recovered from her surprise, Bianca fell upon her knees and, weeping, besought Francesco to befriend her and Pietro.
Astonished at a conduct so incomprehensible, Douglas earnestly besought an explanation.
Almost frantic at the phantom of her own creation, she flew to her brother's apartment, and, in the wildest and most incoherent manner, besought him to rescue her poor Henry from chains and a dungeon.
When her locks as leaves were shed before his breath, 610 And she heard not for terror his prayer, though the cry was a God's that besought her, Blown from lips that strew the world-wide seas with death.
One or two of his staff besought him to move a little further to the rear, but he met the suggestion with good-natured contempt.
And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
And all the devilsbesought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Him they besought to take charge of the youth, and make a distinguished seaman of him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
