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begat

[bih-gat] / bɪˈgæt /


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Her philosophy seems to be, the more voices the better; “She Begat This” is thick with competing opinions, as well as chunks of dialogue.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2018

As Morgan recently put it to The Paris Review, “She Begat This” is resolutely a volume of cultural history, rather than a “track by track by track by track” treatment.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2018

The Ghost, embodied natural Dread    of dreary death and foul decay, Begat the Spirit, Soul and Shade    with Hades pale and wan array.

From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

High thought and hallowed love, by faith made one, Begat and bare the sweet strong-hearted child, Art, nursed of Nature; earth and sea and sun Saw Nature then more godlike as she smiled.

From A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

My father, then, Begat no freeman, but a slave in me.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles



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