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Definition of Beseeches
1. beseech [v] - See also: beseech
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beseeches
Literary usage of Beseeches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"He beseeches Death for the Life of Beatrice. DEATH, since I find not one with
whom to grieve, Nor whom this grief of mine may move to tears, No single joy, ..."
2. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him. (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1892)
"He beseeches Death for the Life of Beatrice. DEATH, since I find not one with
whom to grieve, Nor whom this grief of mine may move to tears, Whereso I be or ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"In his funeral oration for his brother Satyrus St. Ambrose beseeches God to accept
propitiously his "brotherly service of priestly sacrifice" ..."
4. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"CHAP. I. His blood.' These are ' figurative speeches.'* In one place, where he
speaks with great decision, he beseeches his readers ..."
5. The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200 by Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Chiswick Press (1861)
"He beseeches Death for the Life of Beatrice. DEATH, since I find not one with
whom to grieve, Nor whom this grief of mine may move to tears, Whereso I be or ..."
6. Letters of Eminent Persons, Addressed to David Hume by John Hill Burton (1849)
"... characteristics—Separates her correspondent from the crowd of slaves, but
beseeches him not to drive her sensibilities back upon miserable prudence. ..."
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