beseeching

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Beseeching our mother to have the talk herself has proved ineffective in the past.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2013

My lord, once more your subjects do submit, Beseeching you to think how things have pass'd; And let some comfort shine on us, your friends, Through the bright splendour of your virtuous life.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

And when thou kneel’st Low at the pavement of sweet Mercy’s gate, Beseeching for thine erring ones, unfold The passport of the King,—’Ask, and receive!

From The Christian Home by Philips, Samuel

Beseeching her, in the names of all their noble family, to receive Lovelace to favour.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel

And let him, exiled from his house, torn from Iulus, wend, Beseeching help mid wretched death of many and many a friend.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William