As for the disaster at Trenton, he 'begs to inform his Lordship' that if Howe's thirty thousand men had been properly used the Hessians could never have been taken, 'though all the rebels from Ticonderoga had reinforced Mr Washington's army.'

Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize.

Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!

If these statements be true, and there be no other important circumstances, except the assault, the Department begs to advise you that, had not Midshipman Darrin resented the gross insult tendered the woman under his protection, he would thereby, by such inaction, have rendered himself liable to dismissal from the Navy.

" "But all this begs my question," Lanyard objected.

The Sheikh, afraid lest his letter might fall into the hands of Government, after many compliments, begs me to get the Emperor first to move in the question, adding, "what he makes free, we will make free;" for he says in another place, "We act as he acts, according to the treek (ordinance) of God and his Prophet.

And elsewhere he begs for "Some such draught... As makes a Whitehead's ode go down, Or slakes the feverette of Brown.

In the meantime Citizen Beslay is embracing the nearest Freemason, while another begs the honour of being the first to plant his banner, the Persévérance, which was unfurled in 1790, on the ramparts.

What every journeyman safe in his pouch will hoard There for remembrance fondly stored, And rather hungers, rather begs than spend!

while the people, blighted, cursed by superstition, Steeped in ignorance and darkness, taxed and starved, looks up and begs For a little light and freedom, for a little law and justice, That at least the cup so bitter it may drain not to the dregs! Benediction!

It is considered absolutely essential for every young man to wear one of those beautiful fabrics, and if there is none for him in the family he saves his earnings and scrimps and borrows and begs from his relations until he gets enough money together to buy one.

About the time the people of the country are breakfasting in the morning the chela starts out with the brass bowl and begs from house to house until the bowl is filled with food, when he returns to wherever his master is waiting for him and they share its contents between them.

She hardly sleeps at all at night; she cries sometimes for hours; she works herself up into such fits of nervousness that she doesn't know what she is saying,accuses me of killing her, and then repents, declaring that I am the only one who has ever cared for her, and begs of me not to leave her.

The Count of Varila, Madam, begs permission to speak with you.

None of them begs any more; they have each a nosegay to offer you; they were out and gathering it before you had awakened out of your sleep, and the supplicating face looks as sweetly at you as the present which the hand is holding out.

Ecl. xi. is a dialogue between Thenot and Colin, Thenot begs Colin to sing some joyous lay; but Colin pleads grief for the death of the sheperdess Dido, and then sings a monody on the great sheperdess deceased.

"Hobbinol," his friend (Gabriel Harvey, L.L.D.), tells him how all the shepherds had missed him, and begs him to relate to him and them his adventures while abroad.

The following extract from the advertisement of the patentee will enable you, to form some judgment of this singular undertaking: "He begs leave to observe their superiority to english-wrought brads consists in their being quite regular in their shape, so much so, that ten thousand may be drove through the thinnest pine board, without using a brad-awl, or splitting the board.

She begs me to read the New Testament and to pray for a knowledge of the truth.

Such thoughts flash through the boy's mind; his imagination is stirred and quickened, and he begs for an explanation.

We both look, forward to the reception of the work you kindly promised us, and he begs me to offer you his best regards.

Kerbstone, he begs, too.

"Madame," he said, "the Duchesse de Chastellux begs that you will join her at a table of whist."

The Editor begs most pointedly to meet in limine the suspicion, that he is elaborating a trick, or vouching for another ghost of Mrs. Veal.

Aminta feigns to have been stung on the lip, and begs Silvia to heal the hurt.