besought

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The senate, also, by decree, Besought a copy of the speech, Which might to future speakers be A model for the use of each.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur

As thus she spake in envious ire, The aged king, my husband's sire, Besought with fitting words; but she Was cold and deaf to every plea.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Forth Master Fitch did bravely hie,   And all the country folk Besought him that he come not nigh   The deadly poison oak!

From Black Beetles in Amber by Bierce, Ambrose

That Pan is not your god, whom I but now Besought for inward beauty and truth of soul?

From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young

I always voted you a bore, But never quite so much before Besought you with a frugal mind To sail not quite so near the wind.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various