Word: beseeched
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Prayer is manifest in Ward 4, especially on the Irish blocks, where it is framed and hung on the wall. "Visit this habitation, we beseech thee O Lord, and protect us from the snares of our enemy." The homes with prayers in the alcove are likely to contain suspicious inhabitants who quickly close the door with, "I'm not interested," or "I've read all about the war," or "My husband's out now, but when he gets back he'll tell me how to vote...
...that his life is all fox trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...
...Romans 12: 1, Paul says: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service...
...loving father had been found at last. Boswell fell at the great man's feet to confess what a bad boy he had been and to beseech counsel. Johnson gave it without stint, and when Boswell sailed for the continent a few weeks later he made a two-day journey to Harwich to put him on board and to comfort a frightened young man he had known little more than two months...
Alas, Emily is in love with somebody almost as saccharine as herself: a Noble Youth endowed with "manly frankness, simplicity, and keen susceptibility to the grandeur of nature." His name is Valancourt, and his idea of passionate lovemaking is to beseech, if Emily thinks him "not unworthy such honour," whether he "might be permitted sometimes to enquire after your health." She, almost fainting with emotion: "I will acknowledge that you possess my esteem." He: "O Emily! this moment is the most sacred of my life...