Word: beseeched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anne kept Henry in suspense. "I beseech you now with all my heart," he formally wrote her, "definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us ... necessity compels me to plague you for a reply." He was ready to be Anne's alone, "casting off all others." Though he could never forget that he was King, and usually wrote with royal restraint, sometimes, during separations, he wrote her as warmly as any other 16th Century swain, e.g., ". . . Wishing myself (especially of an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty duckies I trust...
...Anglican bishops as well, plus some 700 lesser clergy and laymen. They heard a sermon from London's high-church Bishop J. W. C. Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing it is amiss, reform...
...Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in An Apology for Idlers. "He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return." Many a reader of R.L.S. was reminded of his appraisal last week by a more detached description of industrious, unhappy modern man, given by British Surgeon Sir Heneage Ogilvie in the British Medical Journal...
...freely of what they see and feel.' ... It means ... an equal opportunity to use their wits to create unequal success. . . . Sorely tempted, a New York Times's Raymond Daniell will join a pool to receive Army favors; a New York Herald Tribune's Theodore Wallen will beseech a Calvin Coolidge to make an 'I do not choose to run' news break exclusive; an A.P.'s Edward Kennedy will double-cross his colleagues by breaking a release date...
...neighboring Drakensberg thousands of Bantu, against the advice of their doctors, climbed 12,000 feet to beseech the Christian God for rain. It rained-a little. Then, on Smuts's day of prayer the white folk prayed in their churches. Almost at once, the rains came. They have been coming ever since...