beget
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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.
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty— Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense.
From Modern English Books of Power by Fitch, George Hamlin
Beget, be-get′, v.t. to produce or cause: to generate: to produce as an effect, to cause:—pr.p. beget′ting; pa.t. begat′, begot′; pa.p. begot′, begot′ten.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Illusion! which the blue eyes of the first, As cold and chaste as is the weeping spring, Beget: the other, sighing, passioning, Is she the wind, warm in your fleece at noon?
From The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems by Huxley, Aldous
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
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