-
Bathsheba is the
punishment for David's
excessive self-consciousness. He had
besought God to lead him into
temptation so that he
might give
proof of his constancy...
- III also re****erted his claim. A
number of
influential clergy and
laity besought Emperor Henry III to
cross the Alps and
restore order.
Henry intervened...
- flank, The
marshals who
surrounded Napoleon saw the advantage, and
eagerly besought him to give the
signal for action; but he
restrained their ardour ... "when...
-
attacks against Muslim caravans. The
members of
these caravans had, in vain,
besought his
mercy by
reciting the
truce between the
Muslims and the Crusaders,...
-
After prayer,
George of the
House of
Jacob (George Blaurock)
stood up and
besought Conrad Grebel for God's sake to
baptize him with the true
Christian baptism...
- Perctarit, his uncle, who had been
exiled by
Grimoald nine
years earlier,
besought their candidate to
return and
elected him,
deposing the
young king. He...
- Hagar's piety,
noting that she was "the one who had sat by the well and
besought him who is the life of the worlds,
saying 'look upon my misery'". In Rabbinic...
- Lysimachus, at the
instigation of Agathocles’
stepmother Arsinoe II, and
besought ****istance from
Seleucus I Nicator. The
latter in
consequence marched against...
-
pathways in the air are
dustless and sl****ly traversed, on them he is
besought to
fortify his invokers. He is pra**** to
convey the
departed soul to where...
- the gods and
honour him as they do the gods.
Already a
blessing has been
besought of him in prayer, and it was not in vain. To such an
extent has he literally...
