Begging Sentence Examples

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  • She kept begging to go away.

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  • They ought to be begging you.

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  • Is it necessary to go from door to door begging your food?

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  • The jus episcopale which Luther afterwards claimed for the secular authorities had been practically exercised in Saxony and Brandenburg; cities and districts had framed police regulations which set aside ecclesiastical decrees about holidays and begging; the supervision of charity was passing from the hands of the church into those of laymen; and religious confraternities which did not take their guidance from the clergy were increasing.

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  • An armistice was arranged; the besieged begging for a remission from the pope, and also asking Henry to request the emperor to move the pope to refuse.

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  • In 1872 "by walking, begging rides both in wagons, and in the cars" he travelled 500 m.

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  • For seven years there was no communication between the two branches of the family, till at last, when Hypatius had become a Christian, Salvian wrote him a most touching letter in his own name, his wife's, and that of his little daughter Auspiciola, begging for the renewal of the old affection (Ep. iv.).

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  • With this object he made a great begging expedition to America in 1863, from which he returned with £r r,000.

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  • He must eat only the morsels he gets by begging; must dress in such rags as he can pick up; must sleep under trees.

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  • The litigation that ensued dragged on for several years, and forced upon Leonardo frequent visits to Florence and interruptions of his work at Milan, in spite of pressing letters to the authorities of the republic from Charles d'Amboise, from the French king himself, and from others of his powerful friends and patrons, begging that the proceedings might be accelerated.

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  • St Francis did not intend that begging and alms should be the normal means of sustenance for his friars; on the contrary, he intended them to live by the work of their hands, and only to have recourse to begging when they could not earn their livelihood by work.

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  • But as the friars soon came nearly all to be priests devoted to spiritual ministrations, and the communities grew larger, it became increasingly difficult for them to support themselves by personal work; and so the begging came to play a greater role than had been contemplated by St Francis.

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  • It soon reached his father's ears that his son was walking through the streets begging.

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  • Mr Schreiner, on the 3rd of August, telegraphed to Mr Fischer begging the Transvaal to welcome Mr Chamberlain's proposal.

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  • The general criticism of the syllogism as a means of discovering truth is that it is a petitio principii, or begging of the question.

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  • She was blamed for her friendship with the comtesse de Polignac, who loved her only as the dispenser of titles and positions; and when weary of this persistent begging for rewards, she was taxed with her preference for foreigners who asked nothing.

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  • Then a cheerful soldier ran up, begging a little fire for the infantry.

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  • Jessi wasn't about to cave to his appetite, but Toni was almost begging.

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  • Not that she should do the begging.

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  • He now lived by begging.

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  • The society also maintained Beggar Colonies for the compulsory detention of persons committing the offence of begging.

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  • Police use of psychic tips was not unheard of, usually prompted by the begging of a frantic next of kin and not belief by the authorities in the reliability of the method.

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  • I was sixteen and pregnant and my mother tossed me out of the house and then I was a street smart seventeen year old mother without a pot to piss in and no options to get one then if I screw this guy I can maybe get a million dollars and feed my baby and not listen to gun shots outside my door and I been standing here at the window a long, long time, begging for a ticket to fly out of here and no one has handed me anything but shit and now this guy is holding this first class pass and all I have to do is reach out and grab it but I know I might hate myself for tacking it because this ticket clerk is kind of a jerk sometimes but an okay guy most of the time and he's nice to me and he listens to me, and he loves me and I know if I take it and fly it will kill him.

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  • Together we might peruse some of the more notable entries submitted to that inane contest in case a gem lays molding in the rubble heap of stupid begging missives from fantasying idiots.

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  • Standish started begging her shortly after she confessed to being a vampire.

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  • Carruthers gave evidence of finding the man begging alms at various shops in Church Street at noon on the previous day.

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  • Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.

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  • Most of the African countries doing the rounds with begging bowls are not necessarily poor at all.

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  • Letters continue to arrive begging the question ' Why didn't I know of the Unitarians and National Unitarian fellowship long ago?

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  • But the King fell ill and died quickly, begging forgiveness for his sins.

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  • As I stood there I was approached by a white hippy begging for money.

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  • Sitting outside bamboo huts on the side of the track were human beings begging even from us, or at least trying to.

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  • Lo and behold BA came begging with a generous offer of compensation.

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  • She became an outcast, going from house to house begging for whatever food they could give her.

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  • Why is charity, public or private, impotent to eliminate social evils like vagrancy, begging, prostitution?

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  • Note the biblical scholar begging the question, yet again, in respect of the " period of the Judges.

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  • I took a thousand sequins, begging him not to tell my affairs to anyone.

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  • London was overcrowded with wounded soldiers begging in the streets.

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  • Children begging, some of them little more than toddlers trying to sell sweets on the corner of a street.

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  • No begging sound emerged My pride was intact Even if my precious world had fallen a p a r tact Even if my precious world had fallen a p a r t.

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  • As Trimus and the others walked to the guard house, small street urchins ran along beside and behind begging for tales not coins.

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  • We who live in the West should not, of course, adopt Asian theology wholesale; that would be the begging approach.

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  • In 815 Sardinia submitted to Louis the Pious, begging for his protection; 5 but the Saracens were not entirely driven out, and about A.D.

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  • He shall then "live without a fire, without a house, without pleasures, without protection; remaining silent and uttering speech only on the occasion of the daily recitation of the Veda; begging so much food only in the village as will sustain his life, he shall wander about, neither caring for this world nor for heaven.

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  • She wrote that if he did not come and take matters in hand, their whole property would be sold by auction and they would all have to go begging.

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  • What I want is that our children should not have to go begging.

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  • No begging sound emerged My pride was intact Even if my precious world had fallen a p a r t.

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  • One petitioner even kneeled down in front of the Freeholders begging them to relent on the issue.

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  • The necessity to earn more than could be put together by begging, slowly transformed them from itinerant musicians into itinerant ice-cream salesmen.

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  • Shameless Begging Please help to support the site and keep me blogging !

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  • Did you get the e mail begging him not to use a Japanese sword to attempt to cut through tatami mats?

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  • Her plaintive begging was not sufficient to get the little girl out of the punishment.

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  • If you look creatively and perceptively at what people are concerned about in any sphere, you'll find a host of problems begging for solutions.

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  • So many 5-6 year old children live alone on the streets, begging for food, without anyone to care for them, and it breaks your heart.

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  • If not forever, they will be around long enough to ensure that your children will be begging for your hand-me-downs when they move into their first apartment.

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  • For very little time and money you can have a designer knockoff lampshade that will have your friends begging to know where you got it.

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  • Here are a few that will have your guests begging for more.

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  • But why stick to the norm when the world is full of interesting breads that are just begging to be turned into a burger bun?

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  • It's a summer essential that will have your family, friends, and neighbors begging for more.

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  • Spencer wants to be included in the bunch and apparently had been calling Brody for some time, begging to get back together.

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  • After all his mid-life crisis type behavior (please, we are all begging, step away from the Ed Hardy gear) over the past months, it turns out that the Gosselin divorce is thisclose to nearing a finale…like the show.

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  • This clothing line's sassy yet cool look has girls of all ages begging to add a few of its pieces to their closet.

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  • In fact, your relationship with your parents might improve if you're not constantly begging for money to pay for pizza, beer, and other miscellaneous experiences.

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  • Have you ever popped a bag full of popcorn and ended up on the couch with Fido in your face begging for his own popcorn?

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  • My boys just love doggie massage, and they often just come begging for more.

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  • Friends and family, as well as their dogs, will all be begging for more!

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  • Zoo York clothing is artsy, exciting, and begging to make you stand out in the crowd with its inspiration taken from graffiti culture.

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  • Anyone who publicly answers that question is begging to be heckled in the years to come.

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  • With dozens of cell phone providers begging for your attention (and cash), how can you sort through the mess to find the right one for you?

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  • In this extremely addictive puzzle game, you are presented with a grid of bubbles that are just begging to be popped.

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  • Verizon's Motorola Droid is a smart phone with a slide out QWERTY keyboard and wide screen that's just begging to perform.

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  • If you want a hair style that is begging to be noticed, consider going for short, choppy layers.

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  • The versatile sarong is practically begging you to be inventive.

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  • That is terrific news for parents whose children will be begging for this toy!

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  • Though a sweater dress made from angora may be cozy, comfortable, and begging to be worn from September until February, stocking up won't be a good idea for those who prefer clothes that are easy to maintain.

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  • In one moment, as Willie is canoodling with Sue and she's begging him to stay in his Santa suit, The Kid walks in and calmly says, "Hello Santa.

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  • If your child is always begging to play with your digital camera, add the Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera to your list of 2006 Christmas hot toys.

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  • It has been a little over a month and now she is calling me a lot begging me to take her back and saying that she promises she is going to work on herself and even go to counseling.

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  • But finally I came to my senses, stopped crying and begging him to come back.

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  • Mix in a smidgen of the Midas Touch for making money, and the cliché image of a playboy or playgirl is soon begging to be added to the list of Taurean traits.

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  • On the other hand, if your child loves basketball and is begging for basketball camp, he will be more likely to enjoy the time.

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  • At approximately the age of five, most kids start begging to use the family computer to play games.

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  • As soon as they learn that they can watch PBS Kids television and also play PBS Kids' games, they will probably begin begging to use the computer.

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  • They will be begging to do these over and over again.

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  • Children who are unable to find employment or who are homeless often resort to begging or selling small items on the street.

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  • It's a three-inch heel begging to be worn with a pencil-skirt and a sexy sashay.

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  • Cliffhangers leave viewers with a question begging to be answered, but they don't get the answer until the next season begins.

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  • Before long, they will be jumping up and down begging you to buy that head of radicchio that caught their attention.

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  • That little line that runs up the back nearly beckons to all of your admirers, begging them to wonder about what's underneath your skirt, regardless of its length (no mini necessary).

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  • There were some scenes where you wanted to lean in to the T.V. set with your fists clenched, begging for the Doomsday Machine to be destroyed.

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  • When you squeeze pimples on your own, you are begging for infection and scars.

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  • I'd rather have entertained my house guest than listened to his sniveling and begging but alas, I do what I have to do.

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  • He felt the rise and fall of each breath and was inches from the slightly parted full lips just begging for a kiss.

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  • You might as well make it on your terms, ordering him to submit, rather than begging and mauling him like an animal.

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  • Jackson managed to stand tall and keep eye contact, although, he was a breath away from begging for their lives.

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  • I kept saying, 'I would never hurt you, I love you', but he just kept trying to get away from me, begging me to let him go.

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  • The one that gnawed at him, blocked out but begging consideration, was the possibility that Cynthia Byrne was somehow involved.

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  • No doubt, he expected her to come back - begging his forgiveness.

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  • Despite their poverty begging is practically unknown.

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  • A petition was presented to him begging him to be a candidate for the presidency, and with some reluctance the veteran leader gave his consent.

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  • Grant that the distinctive mark of our Order may be never to possess anything as its own under the sun for the glory of Thy name, and to have no other patrimony than begging" (in the Legenda 3 Soc.).

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  • The revolutionaries went about among the excited people with baskets, begging coppers for their destitute and miserable governor.

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  • He then gave a sealed paper to Ayaz, begging him to hand it to the sultan in a leisure moment after 20 days had elapsed, and set off on his travels with no better equipment than his staff and a dervish's cloak.

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  • The begging fakirs also go about with a lighted stick of incense in one hand, and holding out with the other an incense-holder (literally, "incense chariot"), into which the coins of the pious are thrown.

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  • His financial situation was desperate, and his life was chiefly occupied in begging at European courts.

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  • Thereupon, in March 1831, Laffitte resigned, begging pardon of God and man for the part he had played in raising Louis Philippe to the throne.

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  • The priests were to receive fixed salaries; begging, even by monks and poor students, was pr01522.

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  • Sitting thus on the 13th of July he heard in the evening a young woman begging to be admitted to see him, saying that she brought news from Caen, where the escaped Girondins were trying to rouse Normandy.

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  • Yet so long as the class-view is prominent, there is a suggestion of a begging of the question.

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  • He must indeed take with him the sacred fire and implements for domestic sacrifice, but until death overtakes him he must wander silent, alone, possessing no hearth nor dwelling, begging his food in the villages, firm of purpose, with a potsherd for an alms bowl, the roots of trees for a dwelling, and clad in coarse worn-out garments.

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  • The long roll of charges made upon the r9th of April finally decided him; he gave up all idea of defence, and wrote to the king begging him to show him favour in this emergency.'

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  • Only three months after his accession, he addressed letters to the pope begging him to appoint new bishops " who would defend the rights of the Church without detriment to the Crown."

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  • The soldiers live by plunder, the monks by alms. The haughtiest Abyssinian is not above begging, excusing himself with the remark, "God has given us speech for the purpose of begging."

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  • Two years later we find the duke Ercole of Ferrara begging the French king's lieutenant in Milan to let him have the model, injured as it was, for the adornment of his own city; but nothing came of the petition, and within a short time it seems to have been totally broken up.

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  • It was decided that the count must not go, but that if Louisa Ivanovna (Madame Schoss) would go with them, the young ladies might go to the Melyukovs', Sonya, generally so timid and shy, more urgently than anyone begging Louisa Ivanovna not to refuse.

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  • An ancient stone vessel preserved in a mosque at Kandahar is almost certainly the same that was treasured at Peshawar in the 5th century as the begging pot of SakyaMuni.

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  • In Castile they never went beyond begging or extorting grants of the crown lands, or pensions charged on the royal revenue.

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  • After she had played a little air with variations on the harp, she joined the other young ladies in begging Natasha and Nicholas, who were noted for their musical talent, to sing something.

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  • With a resigned sigh, he agreed to attempt this journey I was begging him to take.

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  • The occupants of Edom during practically the whole period of Biblical history were the Bedouin tribes which claimed 1 A curious etymological speculation connects the name with the story of Esau's begging for Jacob's pottage, Gen.

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  • Finding the usual crowd of beggars before St Peter's, he exchanged his clothes with one of them, and experienced an overpowering joy in spending the day begging among the rest.

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  • After proving that the secular rulers were free and in duty bound to correct the evils of the Church, Luther sketches a plan for preventing money from going to Italy, for reducing the number of idle, begging monks, harmful pilgrimages and excessive holidays.

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  • It doth not consist in going about begging, or in wearing a black or a grey cowl."

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  • If you're begging for the old man, don't bother.

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  • If I didn't have a pregnant wife practically begging me, I wouldn't even be making this phone call.

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