beget
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Beget thyself by continual pains and endeavours to true liberty with charity, and true simplicity and modesty.
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
The cares which might in me with time, I feel, Beget a cruel temper, help me quell!
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew
Mean-hearted coward, false and vile, Whose cruel soul delights in guile, Could Daśaratha, noblest king, Beget so mean and base a thing?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
My own motto in all this must be, as far as possible, "Beget a temperance in all things."
From Records of a Girlhood by Kemble, Fanny
Thou, as Enipeus, didst the Aloïd twins Beget.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
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