| We have seen how he besought all of his freethinking followers to beware of seeming to presume on the vote in his favour. |
| The brokenhearted woman besought him on her knees, but his fear of losing an army made all pleadings vain. |
| I fell at the feet of the cadi, and besought him for one moment to hear me. |
| He grovelled in the mire and besought them, calling each one of them by his name. |
| Some say his mother besought him on her bended knees, but he was clean infatooated. |
| And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon out of her daughter. |
