Which preposition to use with begging
The look wherewith he eyed me seemed to beg for pity, and yet it was marked by the wariness and circumspection usual between man and man.
Oh, I know I am asking an immense thing, when I beg of you to leave all your patients and come to the country.
Pater Noster is said to beg from God, light and grace to understand the doctrine contained in the lessons.
While the youngsters beg in the streets, let the enterprising old lady go on and begin another house.
" The children were fed, Milo, touchingly subdued and apologetic, nestling close to his sister's side and whispering to her how he had tried to get ma to wait and come down to the Settlement, and hungrily begging with his pathetic childish eyes for her to say that this thing which had come upon them was not, after all, the calamity he feared.
A fortnight after birth he went stone blind from illness, and became thereby a blessing to his parents, who were soon able to send him to rhyme and beg at street corners and at the bridges over the Liffey.
For this purpose I have been looking into Pliny's Letters, who is noted to have had the best grace in begging of all the ancients (I read him in the elegant translation of Mr. Melmoth); but not finding any case there exactly similar with mine, I am constrained to beg in my own barbarian way.
Besides these, a party of Sikh horsemen, in the service of the Rajah of Jhinda noble-looking man, who, with his retainers, had kept open our communications with the Punjab during the whole siegejoined the army, begging as a favour that they might join in the dangers of the coming assault on the city.
Well, if I have been kind you forced me to't, nay, begged on your knees, to give my self away.
I beg to day you'd lay that humour by, Till your Rencounter at the Nursery; Where they, like Centinels from duty free, May meet and wanton with the Enemy.
Could Vandyke have made a picture of him, swaying a ferula for a sceptre, which would have affected our minds with the same heroic pity, the same compassionate admiration, with which we regard his Belisarius begging for an obolum?
Five minutes more, he felt, and Perris would be begging like a coward for his life.
" "Certes," said he, "I meane me to disguize In some straunge habit, after uncouth wize, Or like a pilgrime, or a lymiter, 85 [Lymiter, I.e. a friar licensed to beg within a certain district.]
notbut it's a fact, I don't feel much for the young and the sturdy poor, and I make it a rule never to give a farthing to young beggars, not even to little children, for I know full well that they are sent out to beg by idle, good-for-nothing parents.
"If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him That majesty, to keep decorum, must No less beg than a kingdom.
The latter went begging among publishers for two years, and was finally published serially in Fraser's Magazine, in 1833-1834.
Or dost thou mean to beg after charity, that goes in a cold suit already, that thou talkest thou hast no acquaintance here?
Dost thou not remember what that great black-bearded fellow told of his begging at the fair in York?" "Yea," said Little John, "but what told the friar of the harvest home in Kentshire?
"They go a begging to a bankrupt's door.
Then they turned him out on the snow, and told him to go home, and Peachey came home in about a year, begging along the roads quite safe; for Daniel Dravot he walked before and said: 'Come along, Peachey.
They had between them, as the result of much begging from parents and doing a little work occasionally, gathered together probably the most astonishing supply of firecrackers ever possessed by two boys of their size and degree of understanding.
"The English will obtain a trade in China, so they bring not in any padres (as they term them), which the Chinese cannot abide to hear of, because heretofore they came in such swarms, and are always begging without shame.
He will not beg out of his limit though he starve, nor break his oath, if he swear by his Solomon, though you hang him; and he pays his custom as truly to his grand rogue as tribute is paid to the great Turk.
"Mother sent me out a-begging with him," answered the gypsy boy.
Therefore I read that we our counsells call How to prevent this mischiefe ere it fall, 190 And how we may, with most securitie, Beg amongst those that beggars doo defie.