Besought

I besought him to help me.

We besought that he might give us the medicine.

I besought him for a favorable answer.

He besought her to favor him.

He besought her to grant his desires, proposing that they should follow the one course, indicated by Philetas, that remained untried.

And Isaac besought the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and he heard him, and made Rebecca to conceive.

They did as he had said. And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

Young Cupid went storming to Vulcan one day, and besought him to look at his arrow.

He besought me to defend him.