No matter how much I begged ’em, Pap nor Ma never would tell me what sort of things Cap’n Buck had did. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Finally she placed me and my brother in the keeping of an old black woman who watched me every moment to keep me from running to the doors of the saloons to beg for whisky. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long line of defectors had come begging ahead of him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Could I get some help, please?” he begged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She began to beg him to transform himself into anything he wished—a hawk, a bull, a fire, a tree. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She held on to them, pulled at their clothes, begged them not to go. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They wanted to go early, all but begged me. I said, how would it look, the superintendent’s boy playing hooky?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I do not beg. Of anyone. Mind you remember that, woman." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh! I beg your pardon, sir. I did not immediately recollect. Undoubtedly if you wish it, I will endeavour to persuade them both.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

"I beg you allow me to accompany you to the Eyrie, to see the end of the tale as I saw its beginnings." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d been alone since she was ten, when she begged her mom to stop sending her to stay with Grandma Huberman, the religious nut, who told her God could see into her wicked, wicked heart. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted to beg him to pick it up and look at my words, to tell him that it was all I had and all I was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I shut my mouth; with Sam it was the wrong thing to beg. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would beg him to let them go, but he wouldn’t, not ever. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his mind, Jonas saw again the face of the boy who had lain dying on a field and had begged him for water. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She begged and wept, but the boat continued to pitch, with Nhamo clinging to the sides. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, jaanoo, this Halloween business gets me quite depressed too. Who wouldn’t want to go out dressed like a rabbit and beg for candied carrots?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But now they were full of her, a simple-minded woman too silly to beg for a living. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon?” he asks at the end of this operation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Could we talk about the fat woman at the circus and she had hair all over her chin?” begged Isidor Feinberg, reminiscently. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Some late nights in Denver would beg to differ.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s holding his clasped hands in pretend prayer, begging, and it’s raining, and the bus is pulling away. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I begged and begged her to write down the number. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I beg the honorable potter to pardon my insolence,” he said. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You mean when you used to beg to sleep in my room?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

People who need jobs or seek family, who, to keep going these long rough years, have begged and scrounged for food. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama, come and stand by me,” I begged. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my hands across my stomach and begged. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Children crowded around, begging for candy and stories and shims. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I fought back the urge to throw myself on Perilee’s mercy and beg to go home with them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather see him dead a thousand times over, Grandmother,” she begged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became paranoid; my health suffered and learning became impossible; I considered dropping out of school, but my mother begged me to stay. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I remember thinking this is what it’s like to be the one begging. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be begging for lenience and then have him go out and hurt someone else. But I also don’t want him sent to adult prison.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I kept begging him to let me drive. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

This might seem to beg the question of how the ball got rolling in the first place—the ‘first cause’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t care, because in those wartime days such jobs as I could aspire to were going begging. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the noise continued all around: the cries of the wounded men, the cries begging for water and for Mother and for death. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter what we did or how much we begged, they wouldn’t stop. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But stealing and begging, Crane-man said, made a man no better than a dog. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Please don’t do none of that,” he begged. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I beg her to let me stay up till I finish. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it sounds so funny, say it again,” Ruth begged. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max begged me not to go last night, and I understand why. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If he gets a tidbit of food, he’s just going to beg constantly. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Even on the day before her wedding, the seamstresses took in her bodice, begging her to eat and fill out her gown. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, what kind of person sits in front of his locker, with his eyes shut, barefoot, and mumbling in some foreign language? He was practically begging for it.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was because of this continuous stream of undocumented human souls that, a few months after our arrival, my mother warned me about the perils of a favourite habit of mine: begging for food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the baby girl, named Linah, finally arrived, the family was dead broke, and my mother had to beg for money to buy diapers and baby food and medicine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was her last wish to see her daughter again, so her father wrote to Anna, begging her to take what money she had and come to America. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bran ran a hand across the rough wood of the table and begged Lord Wyman's pardons for being late. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He would seek me out and woo me again, begging for my love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“So let us, the black people, separate ourselves from this white man slavemaster, who despises us so much! You are out here begging him for some so-called ‘integration! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begged the girls not to tell Faye, but they were outraged, and it was Faye who forced her to bed and called Dr. Wilde. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She ignores knocks on her door, leaves the mess hall when I appear, and begs off when I approach her head on. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

FOREMAN: Nobody else’s. 11TH JUROR: I beg pardon, in discussing— 10TH JUROR: I beg pardon. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to beg the physician to save him was equally so, since Hassan would only wake up to hate her forever. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t much of a match for his colt, who tugged away at the bridle, begging to run. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged Blanca never to enter what he called his “laboratory” without permission, because, he explained, the plates could be destroyed by natural light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten Snow put down her work for a moment to beg, laughingly, along with everyone else. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Frieda and I exchanged glances, her eyes begging my restraint, mine promising nothing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered that Karen Linga down the street fell and broke her hip and she’s in so much pain she is begging for you to come take her away.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Year after year customers have begged Abuela to open the restaurant, but she never has. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I begged their pardon, but they only laughed at my embarrassment Loudly, Elnora lamented the decline of honor in men and virtue in women. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So we stood and argued and begged, and in the end Sivaji agreed to wait. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my brothers begged and pleaded, promising we would cause no trouble, until finally Father brought some common reeds and cut them into thin spokes for us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He shared food if Mel begged, holding out his hand and whimpering. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

During my sophomore year I used to beg to go, but my dad would always say, “You already know the answer, so don’t ask!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone will get sloppy drunk, and then they’ll talk about how drunk they are, and then they’ll beg me to drink, too. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to take her by the shoulders and beg her for help, but I can't coerce her into doing this. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I breathe on the mirror and beg him to write something. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her heart beat furiously as she grunt-whined the sound of the puppy begging adoringly for attention. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, let’s just go home now,” I begged. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She begged her to think of Ben and Mouse—and Maisie. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I imagine them telling the Doctorita how I work in the fields, and the Doctorita assuming it’s a matter of time before I come begging for my job back. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this only made me plead for more attention, to whine at a higher pitch, to beg extra hard to work in the fields with her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what you are and where we are, but I beg you to put aside race, tradition, and prejudice, and consider the facts of this case that we have so clearly presented. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I beg and whine and even cry a little. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Enrique also knows he is less likely to frighten people if he begs alone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give me to her,” I find myself begging the Commandant. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In 1856, Anthony approached Stanton and begged for help with remarks for an upcoming conference. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather have any job, six jobs, than beg from people. Look at you,” he said to me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As the platoon of policemen minced past they didn’t hear him beg. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t beg or offer bribery, as the others were doing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I fight every muscle in my body, begging me to collapse. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Would there be room in the boat for me to ride to shore with you?” she begged. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that candy and I’d beg and beg until I got it all. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

And then she looked at me, in a strange way, as if she were begging me for her life, as if I could pardon her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the granite ledges, Turner found two gnarled pines that begged to be shinnied up, a cave that would just about die to be explored, and mudflats where herons longed to be chased. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My mom was crying, begging, and pleading; asking for more time as if she were gasping for a last breath of air. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I want to thank her, apologize to her, beg her forgiveness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Neeley begged off, saying he had promised to pitch for the Ten Eycks who were trying to get up a ball game in the lots. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To beg drinks in the saloon became an obsession. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was arrested and taken to Namwon. When I finally found out where they took her, I begged the Governor to release her, but he refused. That's how you ended up being born there.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Way back before Mami was even born, Chucha had just appeared at my grandfather's doorstep one night, begging to be taken in. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“This little treasure is all mine, gentlemen and ladies. Please, I beg you. Do not infringe on my discovery ” “Mr. Remorso,” said Despereaux. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“No. In Tarbean at least I could beg or steal. I’d managed to survive in the forest for a summer, barely. But over the winter?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had cried when she had been kicked out of the home, had begged to stay. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I told Jez I needed help. I begged her to come down here.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Elder, please don’t say anything to anybody about this,” I begged. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, if I moved uneasily beneath her gaze, she would bark that I should remain still; but once, me waking to find her near, she instead begged me: “Touch my hair.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have to apologize, I have to beg forgiveness. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m about to get on my knees and really beg. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He imagined the special recruits’ futures as they themselves must imagine them: With nowhere else to turn, no parents or grandparents begging for their returns, they would devote themselves entirely to the Institute. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana and Rafik wanted to buy something from every food stand, but Poppy begged them to wait till their “very large and special lunch.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A sickled smell that bled clear, amber blood, and begged for cigars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t right that Dismay wasn’t in the house saying good morning to everybody and begging for a biscuit hot from the oven. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

TYimble said, “Sir, I beg your pardon, but I will not serve the man.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg to present you the city of Savannah as a Christmas gift,” Sherman wired the President. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first explained to me, “I beg pardon, sir. It weren’t our aim to slap the wrist of any pilfering hand.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Ill-clad children ran about, and a small girl child clung to Brother Luke and begged to be carried. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It must be exceptionally awful to be you today. I bet all the ladies were begging you to protect them from the murderer inside our walls.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His two dimes and a penny couldn’t carry him far, but somehow he begged and borrowed enough money to open a little bicycle-repair shop on Van Ness Avenue downtown. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, I slept only an hour or so past matins; then several of Mr. Pope's orphans invaded our room, begging for stories and horseback rides. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember begging Baba to take us to Iran so we could meet John Wayne. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody left me alone on meet days because they knew I had my rituals—hair, nails, begging for Flo Jo to give me some of her magic from heaven. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Sire,” Robin began, “I do thank you for this great honor, and I beg you to accept my song of Christmas.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

His expression begged me to drape him with plaudits. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The university had already had to beg and scrape every dime it could from alumni and the citizens of Seattle just to send the boys east to Poughkeepsie and Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had a suspicion that my mother had called Jody and begged her to ask me out, so I wouldn't sit around in my room all day with the shades drawn. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“We will eat meat that we can buy or beg, but not that which we steal. Beggars we may be but thieves we are not.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

At first I hadn’t felt like playing, but they begged me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, I’m planning to beg forgiveness on my prayer mat for the next year. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

‘I does ask. And if that isn’t nice enough, I begs.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Preachers and sinners cried at revivals, and old Chickenfoot Creesie, a colored man, would cry when he came to our back door begging vittles for his children on a cold winter day. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Today she was talking about how well-rounded certain historical figures were, begging us to become “Renaissance men or women.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

If someone interrupted his storytelling, he got mad, and we had to beg him to continue and promise that no one would interrupt again. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Diego sent me a handful of text messages, at first asking where I was, then begging me to let him know I was all right. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Ben wanted a ride before they went away for a couple days. She said he loved that kayak and begged for one little ride before they left.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He cried, “Oh, my friend, retreat from me! Please, I beg of you!” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, me punching Brandon in the face makes it right, because he had been begging for it for forever. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Georgie and I followed them through the woods, silently begging them to turn back, to stay near us as we’d stayed near them. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I went out and found an old drunk loitering around the Circle K in Sunset Heights, begging for money. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“And that you would have gotten expelled, but his parents begged the school not to expel you . . “What?!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You can and must have pleasure and diversion, only I beg you, do not seek it in people of that kind. Your whole future depends on it.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I look at the page and beg my eyes to see whatever it is their eyes see. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Sir Lancelot stood back and leaned on his sword. Gawaine begged him to kill him. He was more furious than ever and called out: ‘Why do you stop? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not? He will believe you. Oh, you must, I beg it of you!” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

"Sister," she called out from where she stood below the thrones, "I beg you to remember, this man is my prisoner. I will not have him harmed." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We have to go,” I begged as I ripped off my mask and gasped for air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I fled to the back porch, knelt down by the tall slab table, and begged God to let Grandpa get well. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Just for a little while,” the old man begged. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner he asked for the Queen at her door, but received only a verbal message begging him to do as she had asked. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to get Sumac off the guard immediately and beg forgiveness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"M'lord, begging your pardon, Her Grace said those as didn't meet their numbers would have their hands crushed," the anxious smith persisted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Please, I need my dolls, my stuff in the shed,” I begged. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Once, when the boys saw Robin’s little boat, they begged to be allowed to sail it, too. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He learned to beg, not for money but for food. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your servants have arrested the owner of the wineshop and his daughters. They plead their ignorance and beg for mercy.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We can’t restrain him when he’s angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear button’—and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I would not steal. Stealing and begging make a man no better than a dog.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a woman in a pale dress came running, screaming at the boys, begging them to stop. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It is distressing to watch their movements, to see them begging for something to eat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people’s business.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The refugees screamed and cried, begging for passage. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m begging you. She’s only—” “I know who she is!” the stranger shouted, a line of spit hitting his chin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to find him and hug him and beg him to forgive me for leaving. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

His uncle and cousins are shouting, begging, pleading on the porch. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Despite our begging him to join, Colton opted out, claiming he didn’t have anything to say. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The master of whisperers had been dressed as a begging brother, in a moth-eaten robe of brown roughspun with a cowl that shadowed his smooth fat cheeks and bald round head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Secrets float between us, begging to be revealed. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Jack collected stamps and begged ship captains for ones from faraway places. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I found that if you walked up and showed a railroad line’s employee identification card, the conductor—even a real cracker, if you approached him right, not begging—would just wave you aboard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was begging him for more direction, but that’s not what he does. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Stop begging for food, you hear! This isn’t Fifteenth Avenue!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begged and borrowed to pay for Florah’s school fees, which were demanded upon registration. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Debate started and I rose and explained what the clubs had meant to young writers and begged for their continuance. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego silently begged me for help before telling off my brother for shooting fireworks at his face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He came to beg my mercy only? Or my love as well?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No cameras around to catch the cuss words that fly or to see the mom with the baby on her hip who begs them for food. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He wrote letters begging her to reconsider his proposal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I begged over and over again as I shook her harder and harder. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My first act,” I wrote, “will be to confess that I love you. I’ll beg pardon a thousand times for causing you unhappiness and make reparations by making you laugh a thousand times.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Millie begged and begged. She told them about how your mom runs the thing, so they said if you were competing, then so could she.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I explain this to my own mother every time she begs me to cut off the bracelet, which is now too tight to slip over my hand. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I said that the American black man needed to quit thinking what the white man had taught him—which was that the black man had no alternative except to beg for his so-called “civil rights.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could kiss my wrist if he thought I was going to beg him and say things like “I’ll do anything you folks ask me if you don’t lock me up in here all alone.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I dunno,” Bloom said, wondering where to begin, begging himself to muster the guts to refuse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then in the middle of a stormy night came Pechvarry hammering at Ged's door, begging him to come save the child. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas’s stomach begged him to hurry; he picked up his sandwich and started devouring it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He stood stiffly on the other side of the gate, sleepy eyes begging me to ask him in. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It ended some time later with him breaking down in tears on the floor, clutching at my leg and begging me to forgive him. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Even if it's just your back,” the foreigner begged. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He begged, “Do you have work for a poor wandering goblin who has lost everything?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to be outcasts, children begged their parents to join the Nazi Party and act like good Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was to beg him by praising him—never acknowledging the aggression behind his question. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He was brave, and he was strong, and the cuts did not make him beg for mercy, and he showed no fear behind his black mask. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I beg of you, sir, to help him continue in the direction of that promise which, like the horizon, recedes ever brightly and distantly beyond the hopeful traveler. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them collected twigs and yams to sell while their children begged. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny begs as I turn down a hallway. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She had never seen anyone beg for food in America, but over there if she had given a beggar food, it would not have made a whit of difference. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, after much begging and whining, Circe got a Negro blacksmith to solder a bit of gold w*re to the box. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was faced with two choices: starve or beg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged, but Hamlet had already turned to my brother. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"Lord Eddard, pardons," Desmond called out, opening the door a crack, "but there's a black brother here begging audience. He says the matter is urgent. I thought you would want to know." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Groups of fleeing people, carrying their belongings in knotted blankets, waited on the roadsides and begged for rides. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“No, no,” I begged, but they surrounded me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So dire had the situation initially appeared that before the fight Athens sent a messenger to Sparta, its hated rival, to beg for aid. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If they were stupid enough to bury it in a hole, he thought, then they’re practically begging for someone to find it and take it. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

My parents have been begging me to get a fake I.D. for years, but I won’t until I can have one that says ‘Jen Talbot’ and is really mine. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

For years Mama begged him to at least wash his face in the morning and even got him special men’s woodsy-scented foaming face cleanser, but he didn’t touch it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Don't be mad at him, Ma," I begged. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“My name is Jane McKeene. I'm begging your pardon for disturbing your afternoon repose, ma'am, but I was directed to see you about lodgings, a bath, and the possibility of some sustenance.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It took two weeks of relentless begging before my parents agreed to lift their “no animals in the house” rule. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s none of his business. This is between you and me. Alice, as a friend, I’m begging you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She knows no amount of begging will allow her to escape. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not give them the pleasure of hearing her beg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four needle jabs to my rib cage later, I’m flattened out on my hospital bed, gritting my teeth to keep from begging them to bring back my morphling drip. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I hold on to his finger and beg him not to leave me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

People saw it and ran out of bombed buildings and craters, begging for aid and medicine. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They complain about it, instead of begging God to bring them back and pretending they were little angels. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I can hear his whimper through the phone, soft, wispy, begging to be hidden. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I pull in one deep breath and beg myself to smile. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you begged for them? Can I refuse you anything? Oh! you cannot deceive me,” and Made-moiselle approached her beloved instrument and began to play. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

What delighted him— what he kept begging Park for—were stories about food and eating, particularly when the main course was grilled meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“No, my Lord, but I beg you will let me return. Let me find Potter.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not back on drugs, Ms. Lewis. I’m simply in a bad situation at the moment. I’m begging you, mother to mother, to give me more time.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When word got around that Stanton and Anthony were working with Train, their friends begged them to reconsider. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I almost begged R. Howard Ridgefield to give up his satire for a while. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He accompanied them as far as the end of the wood with all the cheerfulness he could muster; only begging Hazel, out of hearing of the rest, not to underrate the danger. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laurie and I are both so proud, it’s hard to beg pardon. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kneel before the statue of St. Francis of Assisi and beg him to help me but I think he’s too disgusted with me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Petyr had begged her for a favor he might wear, but she had turned him' away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If he had known what was coming up for his day, he would have been begging me to smuggle him to school in my backpack. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t he stop when I begged him? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The point of life became for me the times when I could beg drinks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his stomach ached from hunger, Jack’s memories were of wonderful family dinners, when his mother would beg him and his sister and brother to eat more, even though they were already stuffed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor pushed by, begging Longstreet’s pardon, needing a signature on a letter to someone. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help myself, I leaned over Joey and said kind of quiet to By, “I guess you really showed them, didn’t you? Boy, they were really begging you to talk, weren’t they, Daddy-o?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t you have any pride, begging for boots like that? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In secret he had turned to Bayona, an old friend, and asked—begged, Jaime said—to get Farmer to examine his daughter. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was all I could do not to nod, not to beg him to tell me Stick was all right. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The football boys gathered around their exalted coach, begging in vain for some reprieve. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Noodles now screamed, begged, cried out, "Please forgive me!" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They did not understand that my refusal to go to church was my way of silently begging them to let me sleep somewhere else. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have memories of walking around that trailer park carrying Luke’s bottle and begging for milk. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Mother often begged Matthew and Mark, “Can’t you wait, and talk to Luke a little bit longer?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother shook articles of clothing at me and begged me for help on the six o’clock news. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Let us see a little of the fun,” begged Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He will flay me from head to heel this time, and no amount of begging will end the anguish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Guard your tongue, Mormont, or I'll have it out. I am no lesser man, I am the rightful Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. The dragon does not beg." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He turned to Puli, who had bought some marbles which he was tossing up and down in his begging bowl, being unable to use them in any other way. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at Pi, begging him to agree with Nana’s rules. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Mirian walks her children down the block, they beg her to buy them a soda or an ice cream cone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The parson swallowed his pride and went to beg the Apothecary’s forgiveness. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I ain’t one to beg, but I’m begging you to think on this and not do nothing this fast. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It is not merely the denial of the housing application but the shame of being a grown man who has to beg his grandmother for a place to sleep at night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry, Father. I was wrong and I beg my sweet sister's forgiveness." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Within, noblemen in my proximity would beg me to dance. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was suggested the children study Morse code in the dining room, but the afternoon was so beautiful, and the shady courtyard so inviting, they begged to pack lunches and study outside. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Puli was standing some distance away; from somewhere he had produced a begging bowl which he held in the crook of his elbow, while he displayed his mutilated hands to the passers-by. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt threw himself onto the ground and begged Cherrie to go on without him—not once, not twice, but four times. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

McAdams kept begging them to quit shooting at us, but the shells just kept whistling in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said no, they were neighbor kids who had begged to come along because they wanted to see the girl from China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer begged for just a few more days. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate people knocked on our vehicle when we slowed down, begging to get inside. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Because I knew that, sooner or later, he would come here and beg you to take his place in the Library Olympics.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even when she was sick, she usually begged our mother to let her go to school. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She ran across town, knowing the physician would relish every moment of Hassan’s wife begging for his life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Definitely not. I used to beg my parents to take me outside so I could catch a Squirtle,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I drop to my knees, beg the forgiveness of the most high God. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I think, reader, that she was feeling the same thing that Despereaux had felt when he was faced with his father begging him for forgiveness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He went everywhere begging alms with a copper dish. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Downstairs they found Laney yanking on Mama’s arm, begging her to let them open presents before breakfast. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was kneeling and begging him not to leave and he wished she would be furious instead. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Hold up, you practically begged me to come here.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t—” “Don’t lie! Remember that drum set you begged me to buy. Why did you want it, Starr?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In three months you'll be crawling back to us on your knees, pregnant, begging for us to take you in. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apa, please give me the green card, I say again, a begging note cracking my voice. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Can we go down and play in it, Mami?” we begged, but she wouldn’t let us because it was dark out, and the streets were never safe after dark. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Water, please,” I beg from a lady nearby, pointing to my angry scratches. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Would one of you please tell me,” he begged, “what’s all this got to do with pancakes? Maybe I’m dense, but I really don’t get it.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The candy-store man had hoarded all broken bits of candy for weeks and now passed it out in little bags for all who came begging. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently he begged her forgiveness for ever complaining about her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know how long I begged Mrs. Smith to let me bring you. You don’t know what this means, do you child? Don’t you love me? Don’t you love your grandma?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before he hurled it Poseidon came begging him to spare them and promising to keep them in order. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always begged Mom to let me wear patched pants. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lauren had pleaded with her, cried, begged, and finally even yelled, but Maya refused to open her bedroom door to her, refused to look at her, refused to acknowledge her in any way. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then the scene switches to a young Hideo on his knees before his parents, sobbing, begging forgiveness, hysterical, inconsolable, even as they try to make him get up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting him to change his mind, to get down on his knees and beg Mami not to leave. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Davi sobbed loudly, begging them to let her stay with her mother, but the soldiers dragged her on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted it—“Claire!”—into the night, begging her to live. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The question is how to open it. We’ve already tried pushing it, sliding it, and begging it. No luck.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, “Business as usual.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘Put it out! Put it out!’ begged Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Your competitor, Mr. Gupta, down the street, stops me every day to beg me to work for him.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Etienne begged his jailers, the guardian of the fort, dozens of his fellow prisoners. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder if the Cuban could even beg for his life so that the killer might understand. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I thought about how my mother had been begging my dad to put a light out there. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"There are Patinas and Krystals all over the place, begging to be in your spot. Praying to form the bond that y'all are so determined to break. Fix it." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes had a peculiar expression, as if he were begging. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If they begged forgiveness for their treasons and promised to serve loyally henceforth, Joffrey welcomed them back into the king's peace and restored them to all their lands and rights. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Take him to the White House,” someone begged. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, in the boys’ hut, they begged him for tales. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bite my bottom lip to keep from begging for his forgiveness. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes are begging me to understand something. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When she looked into the camera in that interview and begged for our safe return, I could see how much not knowing where we were or if we were even alive was killing her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the last of it drizzles over his head, his eyes find mine, begging for more. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She begged me to come home — forgetting the fact that home was empty at the moment — but her pleas were easier to resist than I would have thought. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the younger lad grew adept and indeed more adept at petty thieving than at begging. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He came to me and reared up, begging for help. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orphans by the thousands roamed the streets in their rags and boils, slumped in doorways, begging for food, clothing, anything. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

No bull could this be, thought Europa, but most certainly a god; and she spoke pleadingly to him, begging him to pity her and not leave her in some strange place all alone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rush down the hall and beg Dad to take me to the store this very second to get a new cell. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He used to beg to go on trips with Daddy and Tio Carlos. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then they just leave them there. That marine colonel said when they found them they were still alive and begging for somebody to kill them.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fought the bile that begged to choke her, begged to end this before it went any further. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“She was begging. And I made her promise not to send it without talking to me. That was supposed to be part of the deal.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He begged her not to show the letters to anyone; he said he wanted to feel like it was just the two of them, sitting side by side. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the village, some of the people ignored us while others came up and begged for C rations and whatever else we would give them. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They ask me to come in and play that game- a theirs. Rebels. They, like, beg me. They say, ‘Come on — pleeeeese — if you play with us, we’ll let you be white.' Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We yelled and begged Miss Peregrine to stop. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Our parents had planned to go before my father’s death, so Caroline and Call begged her to return with them and stay on through the opening. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam’s cat is at the door, begging to come in. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I need the place where everything is hidden, Harry begged of it inside his head, and the door materialized on their third run past. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I remember closing my eyes and whispering her name, almost begging, trying to make her come back. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One little boy begged for a piece of my shirt. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sissy begged her to call the boy after Johnny but Katie insisted that the boy had a right to a name all his own. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kenya begged me to come to this party for weeks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Most of the boys have a mind to dean windshields all day on the corner, or to beg from the foreign journalists. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged, I prayed nightly, but it just never happened. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You are my only hope, Lord Snow. In your father’s name, I beg you. Protect me.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After dinner, I may beg for some music but that’s about as far as I’m willing to push it and I need some time to perfect my strategy. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could not go to Maxim now and beg him on my knees to give Favell the money. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And just then, Felix looked up and saw, down the street, a homeless woman with a dog begging for change with a paper coffee cup, and he felt even worse. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

A mountain of hard-boiled eggs that turned into children when my hands touched them, dark-eyed children whose faces begged me for a handful of powdered milk, my clothes, whatever I had. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ingredients hissed feebly, but it was impressive enough for the dogs to beg to be let out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I begged God forgiveness for my sins over and over. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I leave an excellent substitute in my daughter. Emma will be happy to entertain you. And therefore I think I will beg your excuse and take my three turns—my winter walk.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He had lied, of course, and had instead gone straight to his uncle to beg for enough cash to buy a plane ticket. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Zazi’s father beat him in front of all of us, spit in his face, and begged for forgiveness from my father. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pesza went with David and me to a lawyer, whom we begged for help. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Of them all she would have begged forgiveness, had they come with ears to hear. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to beg for some yarn that was sure to be more gossip than truth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Please. This is the greatest moment in my life. Please. I’m begging you.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I beg, despite knowing without question what I have to do. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

First, in a high drama for the Muslims, Elijah Muhammad’s son, Wallace Delaney Muhammad, who once had sided with Malcolm X, faced the audience and begged forgiveness for his defection. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A shower is like begging,” Ma said, staring out of the car window at the storefronts along Flatbush Avenue. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Shaking his head, he says, “She was not a strong woman, Dorothy. Couldn’t take the humiliation. Couldn’t bear to beg for favors. But what should I have done different? I think about it every day.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Of how my mother wanted to leave again and she and Papa begged her to stay but she wouldn’t. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t worry that Brian and I never kiss, not once, no matter how much mind control I exert on him, no matter how much I beg God, the trees, every molecule I come across. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

All day long he had sat by the roadside obediently enough, but he did not beg. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As Tal and Fischer left the stage, journalists rushed to them begging for a comment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Do they not beg, force, and sometimes deceive women into yielding their virtue? Women do not sin this way alone, you know.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Rather exasperated, I began to get out and had one foot still on the running board when I heard a woman's voice call: 'Oh, I do beg your pardon, sir.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

"The boy's a Stark, true enough. Only a Stark would be fool enough to threaten where smarter men would beg." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One, every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sarah’s definition of share was that she drove our/her car everywhere she wanted, whenever she wanted, and made us beg for rides. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty girls in their best summer dresses begged for funds with which to equip troops, and they blushed happily at the enthusiastic cheers of the young men for whose cause they pled. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not beg you. I asked. And you said yes. So why are changing your mind now? We’re already here.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve been begging him to let me, since I’m turning twelve in five months, but he hears too many stories about air-bag disasters from the trauma team he works with at the hospital. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Then I beg you to help us carry out his wishes and the wishes of Gwydion Prince of Don,” Taran went on. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

"The Magister begs your kind indulgence for sending us in his stead, but he cannot sit a horse as he did in his youth, and sea travel upsets his digestion." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter if you shoot me. End my suffering, I beg you,” the man said, and fell to his knees. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They wept and moaned, they begged for an end to pain, they cried for help and wanted their mothers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Taylor and TeeTee basically begged Becca to host it at her place, which I guess made sense because it was right across the street from the school. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Indeed, she stopped him several times and begged him to repeat his statements in simpler language so that Gloria might understand. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that the dwarfs had the mead of wisdom and poetry, and any person who wished to taste it needed to beg it from the dwarfs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He begged Daddy to reconsider, but my father refused. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg pardon, I thought...” and there she paused diplomatically. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged Wemmick, in conclusion, to understand that my help must always be rendered without Herbert’s knowledge or suspicion, and that there was no one else in the world with whom I could advise. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I do not wish to take any unfair advantage, and I beg therefore that you will take some days to consider of your determination.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the feeling, so I joined in at the chorus, begging to get what I wanted for once. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I go to work the next day and beg Herr Braun to switch me to the night shift. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Remember the little black book with my picture in it. Where is it?” my mother said, again grabbing me and shaking me, begging me to remember. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bear, you must come with me,” I urged as much as begged, pulling at him again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A Knockout King in a kingdom of people who keep taunting him with their purposes in life, straight begging to get their jaws dislocated. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Deborah gripped her cane and stared him in the eye with a look that just begged him to mess with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Goblin had been cavorting, blowing through his nostrils, begging to be let out. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged Anatole to get me out to anyplace where I wouldn’t be a danger to others, but he wouldn’t send me alone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor probed in the deepest cut with a pair of tweezers as Matt struggled and begged and finally broke down entirely when the sliver of glass was extracted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seem to think we are Santa Claus, the way the children come around begging us for food and things every single day—and us as poor as church mice! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione begged him, but he continued to glare into Lupin’s livid face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I had begged to go, promising I would get up early and stay up late to do my work, but Maa said school was a waste for girls. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would send Briseis back, he promised them, and with her many other splendid gifts, and he begged Odysseus to take his offer to Achilles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain begged off and sat down, saying he was exhausted. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other fathers around Pa cry and beg for mercy but to no avail. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next year he begged to have him come for the entire summer. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Ida had begged Lucia for nearly an hour until her housekeeper finally put on the nun’s habit, and now she looked very impressive. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She whispered it over and over, and then begged him to go back to bed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The homeless people who beg off the tourists are gone, too, and it is mostly just Jane and me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I gotta go do something. Distract my mama, just for a minute, okay?” she begged. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At this, his heart melted, and he wept a tear and embraced me, begging my pardon and calling me the most excellent of beings, the most tender of grandchildren. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘I have come because Gandalf begs me to do so,’ he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“At my house, next Friday. Jeremy usually comes, if I beg him enough.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I hear her jumping my father night after night until he begs her to leave him alone. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bull must have known I was the right person to beg. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Without a clan system or union contact or a family, Nailer and Nita were left with the dreg work, running messages, hauling small items, begging. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You women should all be on your knees begging forgiveness for what I have seen here on this fence.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Doll saw he was selling his people, she went to him and begged him not to sell her,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s the one who must beg my pardon. She must walk to my home.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon,” he said, looking me up and down. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the day Zuraiq was weaned, we begged Father to promise he would not sell him or kill him on a Friday like a chicken, or for sacrifice meat on the Eid holiday. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Even Polly seemed impressed, for he called her a good girl, blessed her buttons, and begged her to “come and take a walk, dear”, in his most affable tone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a begging look, and Old Yeller wasn’t the kind to beg. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib’s anguished face appeared, begging the truck driver to turn back. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He pounded on the door, begging for Jonas to open it, until Jonas did, his hair standing on end like the comb of a rooster. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now I’m remembering how she used to frown at me when I begged her to take me to work in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to try to teach “Buds” a few tricks—such as sitting up and begging for a tidbit, or sitting with a biscuit on his nose until I said “Okay.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg you, we have to get out of here.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the way I was so hungry from not eating while conked out on the airplane that I begged for rice. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he stuck in a peg and instructed, “You hold this in. Do not let it move. I beg you for not let it move.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Get up, I begged, get up, get up, get up, get up... The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“What do you want? Please tell me you aren’t here to beg me to be friends again.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The girl was weeping, begging for help from anyone who would listen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You have insulted me in every possible method. I must beg to return to the house.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Omakayas wanted to ask her for a story, but she knew that her Nokomis always refused, no matter how hard they begged, until the last frog was safely sleeping in the ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Aimee begs me not to hang up and I hang the hell up anyway. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I speak, I see her pleading face as she begged me that she did right by her Jimmy. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth learned more about the second-class status of women when she overheard the female clients who came to beg for help at her father’s law office, which adjoined the main house. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wept and begged by turns for a drink. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gratefully accepted the mistress’s offer and worked so hard that before the week was out the woman was begging her to forget Lowell and stay on. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And on every feast day, Marcus begged his father to take him to the circus. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Wherever you are, I begged, whoever you are, please, let Rukku get better. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He begged Amaranta's friends, the ones who sewed with her on the porch, to try to persuade her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I begged between games when one brother or the other would sit back with a deep sigh of relief and victory, the other annoyed, unable to let go of the outcome. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three girls were around him in a moment, shushing and begging him to keep still. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used to beg our mother to let us sleep on the floor. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Please help us,” Pinmei begged in a whisper to the wind. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to break him, make him beg forgiveness for having left us without letting us know where he was or if he was even alive. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he said quietly: ‘Up to the last moment—up to the eleventh hour, we will beg the Governor’s permission for the ships’ return to London with their cargo. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon?” said a voice from the fields. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I screamed and begged for her to leave my journals alone, but she went through them anyway and left me with only a dozen pages or so. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Some beg. Some steal. Lots o’ young girls taking up the trade, the way girls always do when it’s all they got to sell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Your mother will be back when she's good and ready. I'm not going to beg her.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I can hear him outside the door, begging for forgiveness, but I can’t think about that now. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that I told them I could never feel any religion, the boys of my gang begged me to “come to God.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pollard begged Howard for the mount, and the owner relented. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, what I begged was employment; but whose business was it to provide me with employment? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tom calmed her down, he begged her to let it go, to let me go. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouldn’t trust anyone who steals money from their family, begs friends for change, and digs through her couch just to support her drug habit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was staring at Travis, begging him with my eyes to just walk away, to leave me alone, but Travis was lost in his own panic. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He begged after his former position, lamenting his folly and asking for forgiveness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like inside he is begging for me to agree. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“And do, please, I beg you, go to see the doctor.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Glaucus was in despair, for he was madly in love; and he determined to go to Circe, the enchantress, and beg her for a love-potion to melt Scylla’s hard heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew that this was a plea to the badge wearers, but of course he couldn’t beg them directly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

You think if you drop out of school somebody’s gonna beg you to go back? The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envisioned the finicky curators coming to my door and begging me to hold another show at the Louvre or the Metropolitan. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When we got to Hotel Barba and she saw the dead eyes of the people—not even begging to stay alive—she told us, “No. No we won’t do that.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Gone was the swagger he used like a glamour to hide this needy boy who was begging me to come home with him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Being queen would be the opposite of crawling back to the Doctorita pregnant and begging for my job back. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would have put it past her to poison the king, though he begged his subjects until his dying breath not to blame her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She followed him around the house like a puppy, begging him to show her how to stand on her head and stick pins through her skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Else would linger nearby, begging for a spoonful of rose petal jam. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The weakness of needing something. Now the lion must beg for it. He is no king if he needs anything.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She begged him to fight for her if Lancelot could not be found. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never deviates or lets himself be swayed by the voices outside the door, begging him to open up before a disaster occurs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

However, the sister whispered, "Gregor, open the door, I beg you." The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me two minutes!” she begs, and when he nods, we hurry toward the 200-meter mark as fast as I can. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He begs me to inform you that General Early is behind him and will be on the field within the hour. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sire,” said the Red Cow, “I beg you to remember that I am a decent, respectable animal and have been taught from my infancy that jumping was no occupation for a lady.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon?” said the girl stiffly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But even if I begged my parents to do this, I can’t imagine them giving in. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Pauline went to bed those nights begging her husband not to gnaw with his beak at the living. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Surrounded by servants tearing their clothing and wailing, begging to join me in the afterlife so that they can continue to serve me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Never have I heard such sounds of misery: the moaning and whimpering, the begging to be released from their bodies. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His lords pleaded with him to build inland; his priests told him he must placate the gods by giving Elenei back to the sea; even his smallfolk begged him to relent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Neither ever lost his or her temper; and, terrified of blowing their lives again, each begging the other for some kind of emotional security, theirs became a kid-gloved marriage of major proportions. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could get Dulcamara to hurt you until you begged to be allowed to tell me your secrets.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She sank to her knees and begged, “Please — listen to me —” He extended his arm, pointing back the way she had come. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn't some stranger, some bum begging for change. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The four of them had written a letter together begging Marina to help them become combat pilots, and they joined the 122nd Air Group together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon,” replied Miss Bingley, turning away with a sneer. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon,” he entreated, following her; “it never occurred to me that it might be repulsive.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

She wanted to scream her terror, bring Zoya running, beg for someone to save her, but she wouldn’t risk the others’ lives. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Joe had his own workshop crammed full of tools he had begged, borrowed, stolen, or bought from various friends, enemies, and employers down through the years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Please," Julian begged, pulling at the gaping front of his doublet. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she needs to be able to beg Voldemort for Harry’s life, she needs to think he might die, and you’re the worst spoiler in the world that didn’t turn out to be true . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I begged and pleaded and promised them I’d do the dishes every single night for the rest of my life, but they still didn’t change their minds. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Despite Loma had begged to come home, I don’t doubt she was relieved not to be going. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I overstated. She may take pity on you when you come begging for her hand.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My mother begged him to give us at least a month’s extension, pointing out that eviction would automatically result in the family being endorsed out of Alexandra back to a tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did she have to go? Why didn’t Pa beg the chief to let her stay?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he would beg the man for some word of his daughters and the world beyond his cell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His whole body gathered up behind the bit, and he skittered around like a downed electrical wire, begging Pollard to turn him loose. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other men might have cursed her, warned her to keep silent, even begged for her forgiveness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mother called a hospital in Utah and begged them to give her an IV. “I need to hydrate him,” she said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail, the one who needed help reaching the dishes, and who begged to see the frosted cakes in the bakery window. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mother rushed out into the snow to beg, leaving me with Jonas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He dragged his leaden feet, begging them to cooperate, but the row of Barbies seemed to lengthen, stretch out for miles. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I beg for my life because it must be Death that awaits me at the bottom of the steps, in the living room, in this house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I still bowed to the household shrine each morning, but now I begged Krishna to find a way to let me escape. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I begged Mama to extend our trip yesterday. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I told Pa that day, begging him to put Post-it notes on different objects around the apartment to teach me Spanish so I wouldn’t get bullied again. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"No, begging your forgiveness, my lady, but it was Lord Jon who—" A bell tolled loudly below them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sam had begged and pleaded with the man not to take her away, but he had pushed Sam aside and carried her down the mountain to a pickup truck. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before they have traveled halfway through the space they are begging to ride the Carousel instead. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I begged him to stay close, but he went to California. In that way he was also like you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"If you are here about those begging brothers, Tyrion, spare me your re-proaches. I won't have them spreading their filthy treasons in the streets. They can preach to each other in the dungeons." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I'd begged my dad to take Kia and me to a Bob Dylan concert, even though the venue was a long trek from our hometown. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You must have begged of a foreigner this day,” he said to O-lan. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He begs for a glass of water and a shower. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There was no way I was going to die begging a slob like Mr. D, just so he could laugh as we all got gunned down. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Humiliated, teased to tears, she had about decided to beg a way back to Rome when a man fell out of the tree above her head and landed at her side. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she begged the child to bend, he stiffened. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I need to see your slides. The ones from last week. Please don't ask me what's wrong again,” I beg, anticipating what she's going to say by the round, puckered O of her mouth. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our only hope was asylum in places like England or America, which meant we were refugees, begging for them to protect us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I picked at some of the mashed potatoes—which were more delicious than I let on—but as soon as we were in the car, I begged Phil to stop at Wendy’s. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There is nothing left to do, the friend says, but to risk the cops, go downtown and beg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was almost dinnertime, and Fig hadn’t even begged for lunch. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He asked where I was going and, when I told him I aimed toward Jackson and Montgomery, begged a ride with me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In court begging some judge to keep a roof over your hard heads...” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“What instructions? We just point it at the house and get out of the way. I guarantee you those humans will be begging us to come in and rescue them.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She let her eyes beg Finn: Stay quiet, stay quiet, oh, please, you can’t make a sound. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he begs for forgiveness, sometimes he doesn’t. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“What is the thing you’ve been begging and badgering me for all these years? Leaving notes around the house to remind me. In my shoes, in the sugar bowl.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We finished Mama’s errands, and we have the whole afternoon to ourselves without our little sisters, even though they begged Mama to come with us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She begged him not to go, told him he’d die, but he didn’t listen. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The crumbs of food she begged from people she shared with us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take me with you,” begged Matt, grabbing her shirt and wadding it up in his hands. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t beg or bow down to anyone. Pretend that they shot me a long time ago.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Here is a ticket stub from the first film we ever saw together, the one where I begged my best friend, Elsbeth, to come along, too, in case I got tongue-tied around Bas. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Please, Big Ma. We won’t ask for nothing else,” I begged. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

That part wants to break down, crying and begging, to say I’m sorry for everything. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That first day, as I wandered through the house that belonged to my new family, I was ecstatic to discover the inground pool, and I begged to swim. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Radiance,” he moaned, as he fell to the marble at her feet, “the armies of the Yunkai’i descend on Astapor. I beg you, come south with all your strength!” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, I begged homework and escaped to my room. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her with her begging forgiveness for not buying me and telling me I’d have been a good slave for her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Hanako thought it was someone else begging for food. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I coaxed and begged her to ride with JimmyTrotter in the station wagon and come over to see the men take off for the moon. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Kendrick begged his mother for the latest Jordans, and she spent three hundred dollars on them because Kendrick “needed a victory.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Paul explained the situation and begged for more officers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad would sniff and sip sometimes, if I made a cup of something and begged them to taste it, but that was it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His body was begging him to quit, but Jesse pushed it on. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

He could just imagine himself running down to the field, wearing his starched white shirt and pretending he wasn’t, begging to play with Willis Hurd. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The meaning of life,” said Botticelli, “is suffering, specifically the suffering of others. Prisoners, for instance. Reducing a prisoner to weeping and wailing and begging is a delightful way to invest your existence with meaning. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

When Laura and Mary begged him for a story, he would take them on his knees and tickle their faces with his long whiskers until they laughed aloud. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She corners me after Spanish and begs me to help her. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she finished, she rubbed her eyes, sleep begging to creep in. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Speaking for the grotesques," he said, "I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She would have wrapped us up in her green, purple, and orange African print dress and begged our forgiveness for having left us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minli turned around and saw a wrinkled, poor man begging at a peach stand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a lion,” he says, “and I married and now I sit by the phone and beg to speak to my children. Do you see?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The foreign feeling in her core was demanding she leave; Mama’s body begged her to stay. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In Missoula, Montana, an operator handled calls from customers begging her to connect their phone to family members. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Desperately begging for help in a room full of uncomfortable people who want to be helpful, but just don’t know how. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Didn’t pull away, just watched, black eyes begging as the knife cut into her brown skin. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I was certain that if Fred were here, he would be begging my dad to drive us. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord,” she begged, “make us poor again the way we were when we founded this town so that you will not collect for this squandering in the other life.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Alice Manfred had worked hard to privatize her niece, but she was no match for a City seeping music that begged and challenged each and every day. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged my parents, “Leave those two at home! They do nothing but make noise and try to take the gifts I’ve received.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I begged an extra watch; I stayed all night upon the deck of the ship. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She cried again, begging for the one thing I couldn’t give her, help. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used to be Daddy’s favorites before I begged him to quit. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She begged me to be still, but the fever compelled me to repeat my awful tale over and over. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged him to think again, and when the old man still said no, he begged him again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” I begged, “this will be something we can do together.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not right for this kind of life. I don’t need a dinner table for twelve people to sit at. I couldn’t get twelve people to come over if I begged.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Practically on tiptoes, Herbie begged the dog to go away, to leave him alone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged his mother to let him play, but Beatrice wasn’t going to let anything bad happen to her son. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Them big ol' eyes of yours looking like a puppy begging for love. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had been in Tarbean for two months when I first thought to try my hand at begging Hillside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This might even be the reason why Tess joined the Patriots in the first place—to beg them to save Day. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But he could not beg nor buy a decent gun. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s no different from the ones begging for coins on the street with outstretched hands—the ones who make guilt creep over you like tiny, biting fleas. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She practically begged me to come with her. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Several sailors did imitations of Cockney boys begging for a treat as Marston hammed it up as an ice cream vendor. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Why isn’t he yelling? Or crying? Or at least banging on the windows, begging for rescue?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And I beg—oh, how I beg—that I never become so desensitized to the death I must deliver that it feels normal. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“What if I build a wall in front of the house?” he begged. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He begged his wife for a few nights’ peace but Lourdes’s peals only became more urgent, her glossy black eyes more importunate. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson, on the other hand, had to beg the proprietor of the King of Prussia Tavern for a place to sleep. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to run to Miss Riley and beg for her help in overcoming this terrible injustice. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, young women across the nation were sending Marina thousands of desperate letters begging her to help them go to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To migrants, begging in Chiapas is like walking up to a loaded gun. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I begged him closer, inch by inch, clinging to his hands when he brought the cup. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My younger brothers adored running the machine and begged to take a turn, but you had to watch them—they were murder on the crank. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She found him out and knew him, and once she had learned she screamed, she writhed, she cried, she begged, and she had the satisfaction of feeling the blows instantly become lighter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’ll think I’m selfish if I beg her to take him with her. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would groan and beg him not to call me a jewel, cuz that’s for girls, so then he started saying, “My strong prince.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She carries Jasmin in her arms to the city’s central plaza, where children beg with outstretched arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

A leper with soiled bandages begged at the car window. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna stared at the beggars clumped around the walls of the palace, their bodies and begging bowls covered in flies. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She goes to Rank’s Flour Mills and begs for the sweepings from the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead I knelt on the floor, feeling like a pilgrim begging advice from an all-knowing oracle. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He defeated the Romans at Antioch and when they begged for peace, he gave it to them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One unlettered boy followed me back to my tent and begged me to write his letter for him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

This was the first year Jessie was old enough to participate, and she had begged her mom to buy foam core and gel pens and fluorescent paper and special stickers for her display. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Usually something happens: the criminal's resolve starts breaking down, and he begs and pleads with the guards or tries to cut a deal or an extension, or sometimes even tries to break out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Our friendship seems like rotting fruit trying to hold on for one more day, begging for anyone—anything—to save it from complete spoil. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“She can borrow the cane she gave me to come beg my pardon.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I asked Tyler if we could listen to it again, and an hour later, when the music stopped, I begged him to restart it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes flit across mine, begging me to let him off the hook. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was all Poseidon, she said, and indeed the Sea-god had been helping the Greeks contrary to Zeus’s orders, but only because she had begged him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I beg him to let me go with him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was already dead tired, and the anger was still begging to be fed. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when a meadhall burned, the survivors would go to another meadhall and, stretching out their hands, would crawl unarmed up the strangers’ hill and would beg to be taken in. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my last song, they stand up and cheer and shower me with rose petals and flowers and everyone is begging for my autograph, even the Doctorita. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together we approached one, who begged to be allowed to pass by us in order to go speak to a friend, but he was refused by Smith. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angela apologized and started to leave, but Mrs. Castro begged her to keep drawing. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He reported that Janis was begging to learn to drive too, which he opposed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When stung, patients report a feeling of impending doom; some patients are so certain that death is imminent they beg physicians to kill them so they can “get it over with.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was common knowledge that he was always begging Dumbledore to let him suspend students by their ankles from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And letters poured into his house by the million from children begging him to pay them a visit. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told the cook that she herself would be greatly occupied during Mr. Pontellier’s absence, and she begged her to take all thought and responsibility of the larder upon her own shoulders. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was quietly begging his mother to wake up when it appeared to him that she wasn't breathing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Master, we crave to know ... we beg you to tell us. . . how you have achieved this. . . this miracle . . . how you managed to return to us. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She begged him to please close the windows. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s mine honestly. I didn’t beg, borrow, or steal it. I earned it, and I don’t think you’ll blame me, for I only sold what was my own.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I beg permission to have a few witnesses examined concerning my character, and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I would pledge my salvation on my innocence.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon?” said Mr. Lemoncello, taking off his bathing cap. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although we lived outside the district, Mom begged and cajoled the principal until he allowed us to enroll. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I ■beg you to keep this matter between the two of us.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hasina had wanted to come too, had begged her father, but he wouldn’t allow it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"When I want to leave the past in the past, it follows me like a begging dog," says a man who survived five camps. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Look at her clothes. She is one of those children who ride the flimsy rafts to beg for money.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew, I begged to the last figure, do not enter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he begged me to let a doctor examine my foot, promising me a giant piece of sesame candy if I did. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

But here they all seemed impersonal; and yet when most impersonal they startled me by being polite, by begging my pardon after brushing against me in a crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them are silent; occasionally one begs a cigarette butt. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I beg your pardon, it had just slipped my mind for the moment.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most Pashtun women would cry and beg and cling to their husbands’ sleeves. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A pair of gold cloaks confronted them as they were making their way along Coppersmith's Wynd, but when they realized whom they'd challenged they begged the Hand's pardons and waved them on. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The whole family used to be lined up outside the door screaming in pain and begging Dad to hurry up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begged her mother to let her carry him a pan of water. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg the colonel’s pardon, sir. But I swear that I’m Italian.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool Papa Byrd didn’t beg to be released from earthly suffering. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They beg to differ with Mr. Neck’s learned opinion. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go look at those horses!” begged Whirlwind. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They still had enough to eat, and I would beg for bread or they would slip some to me without my asking,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had confessed, she had begged him to do the same, but he hadn’t dared. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Madam, please; madam, please. I am using God to beg you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I suppose he wanted me to get enough air so I could beg; but I suddenly got sick of the whole cat-and-mouse game. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if you’re not here to beg for forgiveness, what are you here for?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The hall rang with the hosannas of the faithful, while the women knelt at his feet to beg for salvation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those that had pen and paper wrote their last letters to their families and pressed them on me and begged me, if I survived, to see them delivered. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Never mind my real father who begged me to come down to Memphis ’cause he need somebody to pass on that big ole house to. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“No,” cried Achren, “I will not slay you; you shall come to wish I had, and beg the mercy of a sword! You scorn my promises! This promise will be well kept!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The day begged for work outside—cloudy, crisp enough that you needed a longsleeve shirt but not a jacket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She stood in front of me, kind of begging, “Tim, let’s open it and see. If there’s nothing important in it, then you can deliver it.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me, in private, he says, “You will see how quickly they will be begging me for help and advice.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was going off, begging her for the thousandth time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He begged his servant, Eros, to kill him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I know what these underpants have cost you in waiting, and walking, and begging! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begs me timidly if I might have some change to spare. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t complain or try and beg or bribe. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The navy needed ships, they said, and it didn’t matter what his grandmother said or how she begged—they cut the trees down. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There came a point when Harry stopped trying to fight back, when the blows from the monster were too strong, too many, too fast, when he began begging the monster to stop. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He became deathly ill and had to beg her forgiveness. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Tell me how to be popular,” she begged one of the spaghetti-strap girls. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Rabbi Jachanan, unable to keep silence any longer, begged the holy man to explain the meaning of his dealings with human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every inch of it was built by my father and grandfather from all different kinds of wood—whatever they could borrow, barter, or beg for. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They were loud, both begging and daring people to look their way. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Again I grabbed his tiny feet and shook him violently, begged him to stop screaming, but still he would not quiet. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother begs for another few minutes with her baby but the doctor says he doesn’t have all day. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some stores which had nothing to gain from the children neither locked them out nor gave them anything save a profane lecture on the evils of begging. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s probably another supplicant,” Cyril said, “come to beg you to take away a gift you gave her at birth.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He knew I was looking at him, that my shocked eyes begged him to seal his mouth, but he did not look at me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me die. Let me follow the others, ” I beg whatever holds me here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Everything shriveled up and begged me not to go in even one more inch. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Please, no, don't make me, I beg you ..." Joffrey pressed his lips together. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So I said boldly, as if I had originated it, and must beg to insist upon it, “Massive and concrete.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped she would not ask me to clean herel To make things worse, as Sister Claire explained to me, Father Aristide collected boys who lived on the street—those who beg, wash windows, steal. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fell on her knees before them and begged them to take her with them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begs that he who comes to her shall be one whose heart knows no fear, and Odin surrounds her couch with flaming fire which only a hero would brave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This reminds me of my dad crawling around the living room on all fours, pretending to be the puppy I begged for. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most of these ragged men had nothing beyond what they took in the day’s labor and begging, and he was always conscious that he was not truly one of them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I also couldn’t help but think about her mother, in the front row, heaving and rocking, and occasionally lifting her hands as if begging God for some kind of help. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

These few I would almost beg to visit Temple Number One at our next meeting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

You convene in the rec room, and each day you beg and bargain with them to take you away. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I beg forgiveness, ma’am, and promise it will not happen again.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprising how much like a small, begging child she makes me feel, simply by her scowl, her stolidity; how importunate and whiny. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon!” the Grand Elder said. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The dormouse explained in a shaky voice: “My family, sir. My mother, father, brothers, sisters, and my wife and two little ones. Oh please, sir, spare them, I beg you!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I beg Walter for extra hours of work so I can afford a bathing suit. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sure that as my dad bawled his eyes out, I begged him to stop crying. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So here I go begging from house to house. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

"How I talked with her, and I cried, and Dorothy and Ernestine, they begged her, too. The more we begged the harder she set her face. Sinful. Shameful. No good." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it did not take her long to realize that he was as insensible to her begging as the colonel would have been, and that they were armored by the same impermeability of affection. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My mother begged me to find another way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pain was awful as he dragged the vibrating needle over my skin, but I knew better than to cry out or beg him to stop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But only when I beg for it, when the pain grows so bad that I pleadfor him to give me some relief. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On Friday, he is there again, with his begging hands. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had begged Ned not to go, not now, not after what had happened; everything had changed now, couldn't he see that? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“General Early has arrived, begs to report that he is attacking to the north of General Rodes.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t forget what Jesus did for us and for the rest of the world, she begged him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d pushed that button when I’d had the chance, I wouldn’t have needed to stand outside in the cold night, begging the aliens to save me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Along the way, tables full of people stretch their legs or tilt back their chairs to form an obstacle course that begs me to spill my drink. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe now they wouldn’t have to beg for food. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even if the boy begged, even if his little sister cried next time, even if he brought her a gorgeous kimono, Hanako would not share food that Akira could eat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What about What walks on four legs in the morning’?” “I beg your pardon?” the Sphinx said, clearly annoyed now. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Make her read every page covered with me hoping and wishing and begging like some lovesick puppy. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She ignored the warnings of a priest of her people who begged her to return to her gods; and she sang an aria of love for the Spaniard to the accompaniment of the flute. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Suddenly I heard the voice of a child begging for my life to be spared. But Chief Powhatan refused the requests. He declared, ‘No. The Englishman will die.’ Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dicey wasn’t the kind to argue and beg when somebody said no. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama grows angrier, shaking me harder, and all the while a voice inside me begs, Please, Mama, stop. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t about to forgive, but he respected that she hadn’t begged or tried to apologize when Bapi got out his knife. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I guess she had gotten her strength back while we were gone, because she lifted Jeffrey up in a rib-crushing hug until he practically begged her to let him down. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why the coach, Dennis Parker, had begged the school principal to schedule the game, the first ever between the two schools, despite the distance between them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t call her that, ’ ’Nately begged, looking as though he might cry. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, stranger,” she said quietly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At last, when the sun is high and everybody is enjoying lunch—everybody but people like me—I beg once more, in a cracked voice. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was sad too and we begged her pardon and butchered her promptly. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most begging him to waste the day spending a million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So you’re not completely lacking in some small amount of animal cunning. Good. Now, beg my forgiveness.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This found—the Graven Bull—we roused the innkeeper and begged a room. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I want to scream that she's all I have and beg them not to take her, but she's broken a rule. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On payday near the entrances to the mines, lines of maimed and debilitated workers begged for handouts. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“The kids used to chase me around at lunchtime and beg me to say things in English. They were obsessed with America,” I explained. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He begged them for mercy and pleaded with them to let him climb on board the canoe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Please,” she said, and she looked like a child about to beg forgiveness from a parent. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to beg; that would have only sweetened the moment for him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate to stop such an alliance, Wentworth begged Franklin to talk to British officials and end the war—on British terms. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Pong a moment to realize they were begging. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Take me with you, milord," the captain's daughter begged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“If you let me dance with you guys, I know you’ll win!” she begs. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I managed to beg off, but Liam didn’t have nearly as much willpower. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Your lordship, I beg you, help.me.” Lord Godric began to eat his trencher, tearing it apart in his big hands. The stew had softened the stale bread. “I have no love for northmen,” he announced. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As many of your million books seem to be present and underused, I must beg you to grant me permission to borrow a few so that they might receive the attention they deserve. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, Father, but you won’t. She is in our care now, and there she will remain. That is the rule of our order.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As we started back to the house, I begged her, “Ma’am, don’t give up on him. Like Doc said, he’s strong. He’s go’n get well. Hear?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I begged at other jurtas as Mother had done on the beet farm. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Tell us about the Voice in the Woods,” Laura would beg him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom had begged him to stay longer, but he claimed he needed to be back on campus for some obscure reason he never disclosed. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t let it spike me,” begged the Earthworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t beg him to stay, and I certainly can’t say out loud that I feel wobbly and unbalanced without him nearby. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then of course Shasta begged to be told of the battles and wars in which Bree had carried the Tarkaan. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

My gaze lowers to his lips; they’re a little wet and begging me to kiss them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m sixteen. I shouldn’t have to beg for that. But we just want to get to class without fearing for our lives.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, you have seen them. And you don’t believe it! I’ll have you begging to get in here. I’ll have you screaming at the moon.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t usually get in long lines at community centers and beg for food. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"There was a black brother," Sansa said, "begging men for the Wall, only he was kind of old and smelly." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a squat, two-story structure that was begging to be torn down. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I mean, Dolly Parton—THE Dolly Parton—is singing to some mysterious Jolene who she thinks is more beautiful and more worthy than her, begging her not to take her man. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

So he begged his father for bread, received two hundred dollars by return mail, and, early one morning, he clambered joyfully aboard a Trailways bus bound for the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to the edge of the basin, calling, begging, and even insulting Chacho to get a response. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m begging Momma not to do this to me. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, Mrs. Salinger went on, “And I have already chosen the pairs, so don’t bother begging. In fact, don’t ask. The pairs are listed at the top of this sheet.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"My lord," he said, "Lord Baelish is without and begs audience." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I beg you for the love of God.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the time came I begged to go to school. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit by Charlie and hand her a piece of my Pop-Tart before she can even beg me, and she shoves it into her mouth. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They ate beans and rice when they were lucky and begged on the streets when they were not. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"M'lord, I beg you—" "Don't beg me anything. Go back to your hall, you shouldn't be here. We were commanded not to speak to Coster's women." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My eyes must have looked like the big black eyes of the bull, begging my dad to save me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I beg for a moment of your time.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I already knew Mrs. Hagen because she was Mr. and Mrs. Potts’s daughter, but I begged to stay where I was because I did not want to leave my new school friends. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon; one knows exactly what to think.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sol repeatedly begged me to attend the meetings of the club, but I always found an easy excuse for refusing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before I can beg her to spill the beans, Justin rushes into the kitchen and pulls the turkey tea cozy off Mom’s head. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I beg of you,” cried the Savage earnestly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley does not even bother to think about the fact that I am wearing a translator when it rasps to its spawn, “Sorry, Danielle. It’s so awkward when they beg.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Broken images were racing each other through his mind: Sirius falling through the veil; Dumbledore suspended, broken, in midair; a flash of green light and his mother’s voice, begging for mercy... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She refused to scream, although her whole body begged to release the sudden burst of fear. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I go without food and drink and wherever I find a quiet place I cry and beg God and theVirgin Mary to have mercy on the soul of Theresa Carmody. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother was real angry, but I begged her not to call Dusty Muleman and tell him what Jasper Jr. had done. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I remember this, because it was the only time I have ever been begged for anything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Francie begged off reading at night because her eyes were tired from reading all day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all plead ignorance and beg for mercy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It always felt like they were actually friends instead of two kids Ivy’s mom had begged Layla and Gigi to take with them. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you begged for them? Can I refuse you anything? Oh! you cannot deceive me,” and Mademoiselle approached her beloved instrument and began to play. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. It was presumptuous to come here and I beg your pardon, but I swear to you I meant no disrespect. I only wanted to help you.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I try to call out, begging them to stop, but the ashes fill my mouth and nose and I can’t make any sound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Sam had begged to be allowed to wait on his master, but had been told that for this time he was a guest of honour. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“She always begged me to give the reporting a break! She wanted me at home!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Basel and Muhammad then begged Mother for dough. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“When are you coming home?” she begged her mother. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was further full of Misery for his violent Fit which conduced to such Confusion, & he asked I should beg Capt. Draper for Forgiveness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As he fell Paris begged to be carried to Oenone, the nymph he had lived with on Mount Ida before the three goddesses came to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding it before me, I moved about, saying nothing, but begging for coins. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I begged them to teach me the secrets, they laughed at me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall I never see it again! With all this labor and begging there is never enough to do more than feed us today.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

On that dreaded day, Lupita told herself, she would go out of the park and beg. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Twice already Bernd has begged Volkheimer to try one on the impacted mess of the stairwell, to see if they can blast their way out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He's walking it past us, and in the moonlight his face is filled with terror, begging me silently to run, run now, leave Mirjam behind if she won't follow me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You can’t say that,” he says, and it sounds like he’s pleading with me, begging me to say that I am just like him, no better. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I begged God to stop Dad from dragging me to Arizona. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

To prove it, he used a trick he had devised to discover whether his children were listening when they begged him to read to them and would not let him stop. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says he’ll let us know later, but everyone begs him to count now. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Would they see me in this speeding car holding my head and stomach and begging that Kasim is not arrested? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"No, no!" begged the witch in the front row. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The injured soldier who had begged for a kiss now floated dead near our lifeboat, his head strangled in the netting of a raft. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Be warned,” he begged, “and yield to your true lover.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen the thin, ragged drug addicts huddled on street corners, begging for scraps. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Hiding from death was not like hiding from Mother when she wanted me to scrub kettles, or ignoring Silas when he begged for food. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well then, Dicey thought, they would beg to return to Cousin Eunice, and Dicey would know enough to be grateful, really grateful, for someone who took them in and meant to take care of them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice began to fade away, and I stopped myself from dashing to the wall to beg him to stay and help me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Oh, they begged and they pleaded and they pleaded and they begged. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with all Wang Lung’s pulling and running before his ricksha and with all O-lan’s begging, they never could gain enough to cook rice daily in their own hut. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Her big dark eyes were wide and begging. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has heard that U.S. ranchers shoot migrants who come to beg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“The gift you begged of me in Qarth. Ships. There are thirteen galleys in the bay. Yours, if you will have them. I have brought you a fleet, to carry you home to Westeros.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That was not the obstacle that she had begged for so much. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had kept begging Buddy to show me some really interesting hospital sights, so one Friday I cut all my classes and came down for a long weekend and he gave me the works. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Don't tell Lady Stark, I beg you. We don't have a hundred of me to trade." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the notion of holding up a bowl and begging of anyone who passed continued to distress him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t think it was such a freak’s school when you wrote to the headmaster and begged him to take you.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her father had been begging her to toss the jeans for almost a year, but they were more comfortable than anything else Candice owned. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Trotter said, “She’s the one who must come this way and beg my pardon. She has to walk to my home and wipe clean that hex she put over my generations.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She had to beg for it, poor creature, because the feeling at court had come to such a pitch that nobody would accept her brief. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me . . . me . . . me ...” I beg Ma as she slowly lowers the pot to my level. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed his cold lips and begged him to look at her, to speak to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he begged the rains to start, so he could have something to drink. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They tossed I say and beg your pardon front to back and across the aisle. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a plan, a whole plan, just begging for Nick to put it into action. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d begged off, but he wanted at least to tell someone about the strike and the extra fat check he had coming. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We beg and work sometimes and filch from stalls when we can...I and the other boys....I know every street and alley,” he added proudly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neville looked around rather wildly, as though begging someone to help him, then said, in barely more than a whisper, “Professor Snape.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I do not understand, my lord. Pray explain your meaning,” I begged. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But before the padre had got to the end of it, he broke down altogether and sobbed out, “Oh, please your ladyship. 1 beg your pardon, but I have forgotten to keep my tilings.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short — if you must take the sickness — I beg that you share it with Your most humble & affectionate, AMr. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was difficult for him to beg, but he came as close to it as he could. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which begs the question, What have you heard? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My son begged us to come and I say no until he stop begging. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the days were warm, Laura and Mary begged to be allowed to run barefoot. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, really, I beg pardon. It’s an uncommonly fine one, isn’t it?” said Tudor, with great presence of mind, and an air of sober interest that did credit to his breeding. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between gulps, Jean Louise told her shame, omitting nothing, and begging that she not be sent to Mobile, stretched, or thrown against a wall. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You'll get us all killed,” the man next to her begs, his voice trembling. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat; he beckons with his ladle to every one that passes, and spoons him out a great dollop. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am begging myself inside of my brain, don’t be stupid, Mason. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She could beg the Kuhani for mercy, appeal for the clemency of the Six. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Most people were cool about it, but more than a couple were not, and I begged my father to let me home-school for the rest of the year and then the year after. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“She asked. No, correction. She begged. She said she needed me. She was scared. And I figured that no matter what I thought about the whole thing, she is my daughter. My only daughter.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Don’t collapse, I beg the stone beneath my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Vanessa, I’ve written you letters for years explaining, begging for your forgiveness over and over again. I didn’t mean for things to turn out this way.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He yells back at me, “Baby Face, stay close, but I’m begging you, don’t start killing no one jus’ yet.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes old women knelt on the riverbank, begging the River God to return a son or grandson who may have drowned. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another youngster begged and the parent flew to it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’d just stepped outside for a breath of air—don’t betray us, friend, I beg you, it’s as much as our lives are worth—” Julius brushed the man aside and ran to the rear door. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

All the villagers cry and beg and start to get up off their knees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All morning long, students I hardly know are asking me to run for class president, begging me to join their clubs, their sports teams, to sit with them at lunch. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was shivering, as if I had a fever, and begged Father to relight the candle. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She studied me from a treetop, Songololo begging for attention at her feet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was right, but didn’t speak as I ought, and he marched home, saying he wouldn’t come again till I begged pardon. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged their forbearance for his lengthy absences from the Wilmette house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone gobbled up his food and usually begged for more. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He stood at the door of an inn where travellers met, silently begged for food and silently accepted a piece of rice cake. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lady Asha, I beg you, strike your banners and let me bargain for your life. You have used us fairly, and with honor. I will tell them so.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Take my babies, I beg you,” she cried to them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite complaining and even begging, however, he couldn’t persuade them to let him stop. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when the great Queen of Olympus begged for her aid, she was awed and promised to do all she could. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged Mom to let me go to my neighborhood high school, but she just kept telling me, “Jade, honey, this is a good opportunity.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m not really one of them. Part of the delegation, I mean. I had to beg for a place in the party. I’m his secretary.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then Herbor fell on his knees, struck down by shame and love, and cried to Odren, “I beg you to answer my question. It is not for myself!” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I have no money, eyes pleading and big, I beg. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to obey Voldemort... he wasn’t going to beg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I begged him to let me take it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So far as I can learn,” she said, “what happens is that you beat them, and then you let them off and beg them to go home. Everybody respects your kindness.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he’d just got a letter begging him to come home, for Frank was very ill. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus he spent his days looking after this child who had now grown rebellious at having to be in her mother’s bosom as she begged. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

After watching my success in the sport and knowing her girls would be covered, my mother had practically begged Asiya and Faizah to try it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She cheered on these newly arrived fugitives, working herself, finding work for them, finding food for them, praying for them, sometimes begging for them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they left, half the Pickwell kids followed them, begging Mars to perform his legendary feat of stopping traffic. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, truly. The child, then, is in the position of Eve, the wife of Adam, the mother of us all, and the cause of all sin.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I silently begged him for a little help, just to throw me one more bone to not get this girl, my friend Tasha, who I already let down, in trouble. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

By nature, he was a timid man, yet timid or bold he would go on printing, begging the people of Massachusetts to wake up and resist this tyranny before it was too late. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then—he had known it at the time—he had told Grant and McClellan where they were wrong and had begged them to take his analysis of the situation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Odysseus came, debating inwardly what he should do: embrace this beauty’s knees in supplication? or stand apart, and, using honeyed speech, inquire the way to town, and beg some clothing? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Help us,” he asked again, “I beg you. We dare not lose a moment.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The women I worked with begged to be able to tell their families back in the ghetto good-bye, to tell them where they were being taken, but the Nazis didn’t listen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I begged him: “Wait a little, Zalman. Soon, we will all come to a halt. We cannot run like this to the end of the world.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Christmas came my mother locked my ailing brother and sister and me inside the house, while she went about the township begging for cookies, Kool-Aid and other foods to keep us alive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Come on, Jazz," I begged, squinting in pain. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I know I never want to go to the house of any of these grown-ups, who make you beg for so little. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

‘But may I beg you to remove that rabbit you sent among us, for he troubles us with his foolishness?’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were proud young knights, pushing past the wet rabble, their sheathed swords swinging like ship booms, occasionally smacking in the face the children who ran behind them, begging for bread. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

No matter how much I begged, though, he wouldn’t switch. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He cried and begged for mercy, but they did not pay any attention to him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching the bars of his cage with bound hands, Mance sobbed and begged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She tosses me an exasperated look and points at the twins, who are poking a fire-ant mound with a stick, practically begging to get swarmed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

This time I added Bear’s name to those for whom I begged protection. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg to disagree with you,” he informed her, using his best freshman English. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

"I beg of you, my prince . . ." "I'm king now. Dog, get her out of bed." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He still blushes every evening when he gets his good-night kiss, and then begs for another one. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The old blue hopelessness invades my sleep and I’m crossing the river, looking back at the faces of children begging for food, “Cadeaux! Cadeaux!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His advisors begged him to at least speak somewhere he could have the podium to himself to carefully lay out his thoughts and feelings. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Make him stop saying things like that,” she begged. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She stares at me, begging me to play along. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Soon Zeno begged the torturers to stop and promised that he would name his colleagues. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And Mother is scraping and fawning, “If you please, sir . . . begging your lordship’s pardon.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

One unfortunate they found—I know not who—and we heard him begging for mercy as they led him away. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She doesn't understand why I want to hear such a sad story again and again but takes me to the library around the corner when I beg and helps me find the book to borrow. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

You beg the officers to let you take one last look at your daughter before she is buried. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’ll get to see you mow down your own kind and beg for the next fix. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They begged for mercy, which Caesar did not hesitate to grant. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had begged her parents not to move, even going as far as leaving sticky notes all over the house, in secret places that they would find over the course of days or weeks. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

One has a daughter, eight years old, who begged her not to go. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I hated the business, I begged leave to defer it: no—it should be gone through with now. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sounds just like Javier, begging for me to read him his book. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stone-faced, the small grey man had begged leave to sew the boys' heads back onto their shoulders, so they might be laid in the crypts below with the other Stark dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s the last time they see each other for weeks, and after a lot of teasing and maybe some begging, he convinces Henry to download Snapchat. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She begged him to rest in our house. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever the trains stopped, the migrants went, gaunt and dirty, plagued by parasites they had picked up along the way, to front doors to beg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We begged—we remonstrated—and, at last, he agreed to take Dr. Trefusis’s silk waistcoat, ruined as it was, in payment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When you were a little girl, you used to dream that you were lying among the dead and all the spirits were begging you to scream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

All the cool stuff I was going to say just flew out my head and I heard myself begging for just one more chance. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The clock read two in the morning, and his body begged for sleep, but Finn was having none of that. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The king then sent his youngest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, and she was so lovely and clever that he was sure she would succeed where the others had perished. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I considered going to church, just walking inside and dropping to my knees in front of the cross, and begging for pain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot live any longer without begging my parents for forgiveness.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was begging a sailor for a sweet, which he held tauntingly out of reach. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One girl begged for lots of little braids with ribbons woven in. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Little children with swollen stomachs trailed after them, too weak or scared to beg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Rise once more to make Pashtuns understand the song of honor. Your poetic words turn worlds around. I beg you, rise again. ” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When the new Jack’s fast-food restaurant opened near our home, we begged to go there to buy French fries. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Still . . . perhaps it is worth the trying . . ." "Must the rightful Lord of the Seven Kingdoms beg for help from widow women and usurpers?" a woman's voice asked sharply. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“When anyone—a wife, a child, a mother—begs for a man’s freedom, the soldiers always say the same. ‘Bring the emperor a Luminous Stone That Lights the Night and you can have your wish.’” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Not large enough, begging your royal pardon,” said Brown Ben Plumm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her sons begged her to wear a conventional dress when she visited them at boarding school. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He begs for clean clothes or scrubs the ones he is wearing and lays them on the riverbank to dry. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was a gray day, the clouds so low and heavy and ready to rain that they begged, Ralph thought, to be punched. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Do mine," Yoyo begged, and Papi placed a penny in the old man's slotted hands so that the coin looked like the wheel of a boat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Tyler was a softer target: I begged and he gave me a silver coin as big as my palm. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What Mistress Owens is trying to say, sir, begging your honor’s pardon,” said Mr. Owens, standing beside her, “is that she dun’t see it that way. She sees it as doing her duty.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Arthur tries dragging me away, and I only step back because he’s begging me and my name is a choked breath and he’s crying and he’s probably more scared than that five-year-old kid. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Sputtering, up he came, too full of water to call her name or beg for help, only looking at her as his arms slapped the water around him. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel begs him not to go up the hill where he sniffs glue. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“He speaks Latin. I beg you to find the Utility in that.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He woke up for a moment, clutched her tightly and begged her not to leave him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are using begging to make big money. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I begged Nora last night to show up in a black wig, eyeliner, and for the love of God, at least a My Chemical Romance shirt. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Though my throat begs for water and my feet crave to stop, I push on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My lady, I beg the boon of championing your cause." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t pay much, but I preferred it to begging. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The only other thing they coughed up was that if we hit Raleigh we’d gone too far south. And we had to beg for even that,” Liam confessed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then Jo grew frightened, Meg begged to be allowed to write the truth, and even Hannah said she ‘would think of it, though there was no danger yet’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had begged God with such fervor for something fearful to happen so that she would not have to poison Rebeca that she felt guilty of Remedios' death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He felt a sudden need to move his bowels, but knew he dare not beg off now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the sailors attacked him he begged them as a last favor to let him play and sing, before he died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Octavian ...” “I beg of you,” said I, “tell me of the Empire of Oyo.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he asks us about the future, Peeta gets down on one knee, pours out his heart, and begs me to marry him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t shout or beg or yell in anger. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds fun,” I say slowly, and then I press my lips together, because it’s not like I’m about to sit here begging for an invite to a random party on my own birthday. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Olga begged money for food, medicine, and wheelchairs and to get migrants home. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She never scolded me, but kept begging me, with a sorrowful face, to tell her what she had done wrong. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, Yollo. You need not look so pale, I was only playing with you. The Prince of Sorrows does not bestow his grey kiss lightly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My stomach swirls, and I crack a smile, begging for him to ask me to join him. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give me another dose. Whatever I say, Matthias, no matter how much I beg. I don’t want to be like Nestor, like those Grisha in the cells.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Don't tell me you want to go. Please don't tell me that," she said, her voice kind of begging. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I beg your servants to help us find him. Then, too, our provisions and weapons have been lost...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as we returned from the visit with my mother, Luke begged to try his helicopter. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Work that would make us beg for mercy. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

At times she’d beg me to convert so she could be in good grace again. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then in quavering voices and trembling all over they begged their guests to pardon the poor refreshments they had offered. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merlyn said, “I beg your pardon. I am not haring a very good day today, and there it is.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing Junaid brag is a lot better than his begging me to feed him drama about my life. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Zoya Malkova and two of her friends visited the local military recruitment officer at least three times, begging him to assign them to combat duty. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Before leaving her, Robert begged her pardon for the impatience—he called it rudeness—with which he had received her well- meant caution. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Farraday, however, simply looked up at me and said: 'I beg your pardon, Stevens?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

How else will they be taught that law and order guarantees their children a brighter future than begging, horse dealing, and petty crime? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

All winter he’s been like a dog scratching the door, begging to go out. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I must have begged her ten different ways. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If it was up to me, I’d probably live with Sneaky, instead of just spending the weekend with him, which I had to beg Mama to do. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon. I happened to be looking at the floor,” said the woman, and faced the doors of the car. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“To be active: as active as I can. And first I must beg you to set Hannah at liberty, and get somebody else to wait on you.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But here the countryside is too desolate and dry to live off the land, and begging is too chancy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My dad begged the soldiers to take him instead of Heritage, arguing that his son was too young, but they didn’t listen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She could squeeze two cents till they begged for mercy, let alone two dollars. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when Horace tripped over a root and fell to the ground and then lay there begging for a rest, we all stopped. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Then we will. But only if she begs.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s behind the cookhouse loading a wheelbarrow with the odds and ends he’s managed to beg off the cookhouse crew. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I beg you, ask the admiral to give the kids one last shot. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came running after you! I called you! I begged you to come back!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Just left a prayerful note to my father, begging him to take care of TJ. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We kids pounded on Dad’s back and begged him to stop, but he ignored us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If she begged him to straighten, he slouched, almost slipping through her hands. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The roads were filled with people, everybody running and begging for rides from passing trucks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged El-ahrairah to examine him and promised to do all he said. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wickedness was unforgivable, yet I begged the Lord to have mercy on me, a sinner. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most especially, I beg you, oh Jefe, give me back my son. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I don’t want you going on begging for food, that’s why.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lynn and Amber begged Uncle to take us camping that weekend, and he agreed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"The kitchen scraps are gone, and we'll have no begging after dark." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I would beg for pennies, then peer under the swinging doors to watch the men and women drink. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched sick men crawling upon the ground, holding out their hands in supplication to Redcoats who scurried past; begging to be lifted and carried. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I told him how my mother begged me to smile, but I knew I wouldn’t. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll beg, steal, and cheat just to get a quick line. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then she’s off down the hall, trailed by a couple of orderlies begging for her autograph. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn back to the Chagall, begging it to suck me in, please, just as Dad fills up the doorway. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Christy said she felt sick and begged to see the nurse. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Could you good men please allow my son to warm his little feet?” she begged. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By next year, the Music Wingers will be begging us to be in the musical.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Moss reached over and grabbed Javier’s beanie and he clutched it hard; then he fell over Javier’s body and shook him, begging him to come back. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got my phone out of my pocket and began typing a text to send her, begging her to rescue me from Marcus, but I deleted it and put my phone away. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Streaking down the homestretch, Woolf was a crimson blur on Seabiscuit’s back, lifting him, holding him together, begging him for more, dropping flat to lie under the wind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Emperor does have a harem, right? Because that’s the only reason I took the oath—” She shoves me—practically off the roof—and I beg for mercy. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I beg pardon. Henceforth, I shall not even waggle my ears save by your lordship’s lordly leave.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had been cranking on the night of the party, the one that Amber Hass had begged her to attend. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He went to his friends begging one after another of them to die and let him live. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He welcomed them gladly and begged them to help him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon?” said Milo, for he didn’t see who had spoken. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other part runs screaming worse than a four-year-old begging her mama to chase the boogeyman out of the closet and off to a place where bad dreams don’t exist. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Supreme got one and was so blown away that he begged Dad to let him manage his career. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hoped I didn’t get the chance to do too much screaming and begging. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“You must beg her pardon at once. Say you’re sorry, Michael!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I look at Jamie, my eyes begging for him to save me, but he doesn’t seem to understand that I’m drowning. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I will beg him for another week, in German, this evening. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I went to my mom and begged her to give me money to buy something to wear for the dance. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"The blade . . . you must not," she begged him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He whimpers, begging Axel to leave the chopped tree for a better adventure. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I beg to differ,” the other official shook his head. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“How many times should I tell you not to beg for food?” my mother demanded. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seventy-two hours through the Roaring Forties. Seventy-two hours by dead reckoning, and then you enter Salem Harbor. Why, you...begging your pardon, ma’am, for what I’m thinking.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held her hand and begged her to be quiet. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After her wonderful day on the cliffs, Ess begged constantly to return. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

An hour and a half later they gave up and came to me begging for help. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emmett pauses, closes his eyes, then mutters, “I begged my cousins not to tell my uncle and aunt. ‘I don’t want to be sent back to Chicago,’ I said. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Years later, when I saw the film Oliver, I wondered if anyone knew that, like those British boys in the orphanage, American children beg for food in some foster homes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

For another week the white men of both factories begged us to fight. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I walk over to a bent old man who sits cross-legged on the floor, begging. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then I went to the kitchen to beg a headache pastille from Viola. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I begged for an answer, riding my own wave of grief at his cruel rejection. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I visualized the door bursting open and this horde of people swarming in and begging to audition. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tears streamed down his face and he cradled the barrel of the shotgun in his arms as though it were the woman he had been begging for, searching for, all his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted those men to die in hell begging for ice water, but I felt mad at Rosaleen, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her that was what Enos called them—orphans who did not live in Doctor Korczak’s home, or any other, and who roamed the streets hungry and begging and sick. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He saw himself sitting at his bench, his shop crowded with boys with mothers, boys with fathers, all begging to be allowed to work for him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted only to fall at his feet in my terror, to beg him not to leave me alone, but he was staring at me unrelenting. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shouted, ‘Keep the royal bow from the beggar’s hands no matter how he begs!’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assured him of my keeping the secret, and begged to be favoured with further particulars. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

If I begged and practiced my catechism, Mother would sometimes let me go home with Constantine on Friday afternoons. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Shoot, the biggest and ugliest dude in there was probably begging for Ali's autograph. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Andplease, I beg, let these people not have lived here long. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve already made up my mind that I’m going to do this, but I’m kind of enjoying listening to Mrs. Parker beg a little. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She wondered if right now he was begging the other monks for forgiveness or trying to lie his way out of this. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Give us a second chance. I’m begging you, Will.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She had come to the shore, begging for a ride. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On The Beast I have begged and been fed. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Please go just a little further,” I begged. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Things have gotten so bad in Holland that hordes of children stop passersby in the streets to beg for a piece of bread. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They begged her and begged her, but she wouldn’t get in. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana begged Poppy to pass by their new post office box often to see if she had received any letters from home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A day or ten cramped up inside the ice would leave him shivering and feverish and begging for release, Jon did not doubt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they broke into tears as they asked questions and begged for replies and for tasareeh, visiting permits. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

One girl begged her mom for two cookies every day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They all beg the girls to just buy anything they can think of. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

After two weeks of being stuck at home, we’d begged our parents to let us take the bus. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Old Celestine came in to say that Madame Ratignolle’s servant had come around the back way with a message that Madame had been taken sick and begged Mrs. Pontellier to go to her immediately. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Pomp, who begs tales of horror and enchantment, Olakunde recounted tales of the red monkey who with withered lips enounced sacred knowledge to the oracles of Oyo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After all that wobbling and shuffling, my stomach begs for some food. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Now Wang Lung had never in his life begged of any man and he disliked this notion of begging of strange people in the south. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We begged the man, and after my grandmother began to weep, he let us pass. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Strike these chains from my wrists, I beg you. Let me ride. I will attempt no escape.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But if that is the case, you must write to your mother and beg that you may stay a little longer. Mrs. Collins will be very glad of your company, I am sure.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I rubbed my face where he had hit me when I begged him not to sell Sam. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned over, touching my forehead to his shoulder, begging him to stop. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

‘I was not sent to beg any boon, but to seek only the meaning of a riddle,’ answered Boromir proudly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was hot, tired, and hungry, and when this lady mentioned a luau, my stomach sat up on its hind legs and begged like a dog. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had gone from a bustling practice that turned people away to one that was practically begging for clients. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had begged them to buy it from the drugstore. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy begged me not to tell anyone, to keep him and his new home in my tent a secret. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

We don’t have to beg Him to save us. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Courtney begs him again to stop, but he is not done. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some of the passengers started to respond to the accusations and rush out to join the other men, their wives pulling on their arms begging them not to go. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He hid his terror in his heart, however, and addressed the stranger: “What country is your fatherland? No hateful and defiling lies, I beg you. Tell me the truth.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I’d see a commercial for Dark & Lovely with those gorgeous black models and their swinging, straight, shoulder-length hair, I’d beg for Pop Pop to give me the money to get a perm. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Good. He’s nice and all, but make him sweat and beg.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to ask him or tell him or beg him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He was tired of being a half-rotted monster, you know. He practically begged me for lips and eyeballs.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I felt myself bump into an unyielding figure, I turned in some annoyance to beg his pardon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Some are shot by ranchers as they try to beg or steal food or drink. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We was already dead and I wasn’t gonna spend my last minutes on earth begging no worm from the bottom of a outhouse for my life. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t particularly enjoy getting roughed up, but the alternative was to cower and beg, which he couldn’t lower himself to do. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at her, begging her to leave, not to embarrass me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His very teeth were floating and his voice was a plaintive cry as he begged our father to rise from his throne and enter into family life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if Ammu finds us and begs us to come back?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a begging smile, a passive acceptance of the policeman’s authority. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg your —” A third girl in a hat marked #3 shoved her hand out the window, palm first. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She begged God to help her mother leave her dad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some wrathful thing in this boy was begging to get loose, and Rollins didn’t want to be around when it slipped its leash. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Women with swollen bellies began coming to the house and begging Mother to deliver their babies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Weeping and terrified, Angel begged him to leave her alone. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only begged permission to sit down a moment, as I was tired. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I beg to differ," the brother with the pipe said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No—no. Tell me of him,” she begged. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my mother'd get nervous as hell and start to cry and beg me to stay home and not go back to my cabin, but I'd go anyway. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Brooke begged me to get Gay to change her mind. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There are a couple comments from Aimee, begging him to pick up his phone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Wait, you leaving? One more game, c’mon,” he begged, setting the pieces back on their original squares. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A procession of suppliants climbed the knoll on bare, bloodied knees to show their devotion or purge their grief or beg forgiveness in the slow tearing of flesh and bone. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was no surprise when the Christmas deadline came and she begged for more time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Doll, I guess she’d be your great-great-great-grandmother, something like that, went to her mistress and begged her, knowing that another woman would understand how she felt. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cupid had told him the whole story and had begged for his help. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please close your eyes,” he begs, his jaw tightening. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She had stood on the streets and smiled and smiled, and then smiled and begged and then just begged. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Next to her purple hat box is Dad’s small silver safety box with the key in the lock and practically begging me to open it, so I do, when, unexpectedly: What are you doing, Filthy? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

They squeezed her and begged her not to leave. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pawing the ground is a horse’s way of begging. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the men would beg for a shot at the target themselves. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then her sister, Duchess, pushed her aside and begged for food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He got on his knees, not caring that the icy wetness seeped through his pants legs, and begged for God’s mercy for his sisters. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The smell of singed flesh fills my nostrils, and I hear myself begging for mercy, then sobbing, then screaming. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Come tomorrow morning, would they all realize what they had done and come running, begging to erase their names? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, let me wait until tomorrow,” I begged. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as a ten-year-old boy he understood how brave our uncle was to beg the new Khmer Rouge village chief to permit us to stay. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Papa, please, some kwacha notes for my walls,” I begged my father one afternoon. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Don’t send a letter home,” begged Francie, thinking of the address she didn’t own. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sweet lad,” she begged, “’twill give thee strength and mend those ailing limbs.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I would never be one of them even if they begged me on their knees,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of Nestor begging with his last breath for his Shu masters to return. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, Sister. It just came out.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Your Worship, I beg you, take the noble Hizdahr for your king at once. He can speak with the Wise Masters, make a peace for us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was crying now, wringing the sweatshirt in her hands, begging me to touch it, just take it, please, please, maybe I’d feel something, maybe I’d know...I turned and I ran. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her eyes begged him to say yes, and Natalie’s gaze was as intense as lasers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Although the neighborhood begged for Change, Positive Change on every other election billboard after the riots, I was glad to find everything where we had left it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And when the glad shout had swelled up and died away again, to Sam’s final and complete satisfaction and pure joy, a minstrel of Gondor stood forth, and knelt, and begged leave to sing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then, whining, he turned and crawled back to solid ground, tail between his legs, and commenced begging me to come back, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Just help me carry him,” I begged another man. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Open the door,” she now begged, her voice sticky like our hands. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“In Haiti we are poor,” Ma said, “but we do not beg.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Throughout the day on May 11, his friends and teammates incessantly begged him to make an effort to come down under his own power. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They even begged Reverend Hunt not to go. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I would have loved to see Coach Johnson beg me to stay on the team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When the widow finally opened her eyes, she begged her son to find her embroidery. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alex begged God’s forgiveness, and unstrapped the watch off the dead man’s wrist. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Disney cartoons lure out the girls, who always surround Brother Vu, begging him to break yet another piece of wood. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If firings had fallen out different, Lyra, you might have been brought up a gyptian, because the nurse begged the court to let her have you; but we gyptians got little standing in the law. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Hold on, Mango,” I beg as I gently pet him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I know you’ve written to Wylan every week since he left your household, begging him to return. Those are not the actions of a man who doesn’t care for his only son and heir.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her eyes—black, begging—stare at the king. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Prosper Thou the work of our hands, we beg Thee: Prosper Thou it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You are wondering, perhaps, about your young friend,” said Lucius, “the one with the continually running nose. Yes. He brought you here, weeping, begging for my assistance. ‘Put him together again/ he said. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I winked at Ji-yun, and we both threw ourselves into her arms, begging and pleading. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she’s begged me to stop running everything by her as she’s losing her appetite from eating so many imaginary dinners in her head. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band was always getting letters from Japanese teenagers begging them to come play, and offering up their homes as crash pads. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now a real fire beat in my temples, all the fevers I’d ever begged for, caught up to me at last. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to Jesse that parents were meant to be understood .any more than the safe at the Millsburg First National was sitting around begging him to crack it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to a little niche where a statue of the Virgencita was standing, and begging her pardon, I knocked her and her pedestal over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None, this one grieves to confess. We beg your pardon.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"I beg your pardon but Mr. Gatsby would like to speak to you alone." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She begged and cajoled for three weeks, and finally Mass General agreed to take the case for free. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even if I’m completely exhausted, even if my body is screaming and begging that it needs to rest, some nights I just stare at my ceiling for hours and hours. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He begged her for a date, saying, “Hennie, come on . . . just give me a chance.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Dear madam, do not go. I beg you will not go. Mr. Collins must excuse me. He can have nothing to say to me that anybody need not hear. I am going away myself.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t say all dat when you wuz begging Nanny for me to marry you.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mingo opened with the story of his journey, the nights he spent begging the Lord for guidance, the long years it took to purchase his family’s freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then Frodo begged them to hasten, and he would not look towards the hill, but rode through its shadow with head bowed and cloak drawn close about him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He flips the locking clasp on his tool case over and over until Marie-Laure begs him to stop. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sheriff’s deputies were out, carrying shotguns, moving the drifters along, so they didn’t hang around town to beg for food. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wonder at this special attention, and Papa begs Don Manuel not to go to so much bother. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, I had to beg him for days to get in a practice session. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But imagine you’re six and you came home every day crying, begging not to go back to school. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Pong pretended to look shocked and said in a very upper-crust voice, “I beg your pardon, but it's the Junior Patrol creed to give out at least three compliments every day.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She, on the other hand, shuddered from the certainty that the deep moan was a first indication of the fearful pig tail and she begged God to let the child die in her womb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

At first she didn’t think she should see me, but I begged her to meet me at the cafeteria where we had dinner together. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That man has been begging me to introduce him to your sister since the wedding,” Henry says. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He knew that he had to tell his guilt to his father and beg his forgiveness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had come to beg for help; nevertheless, in his heart there was confidence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom said she was being reasonable, she didn’t seem drunk, she wasn’t hysterical, she didn’t make threats or beg him to go back to her. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father came to beg for her release, but Agamemnon would not let her go. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so scared someone might hear it that I literally begged Father to take me back upstairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We both laughed, begged each other’s pardon, and felt all good and comfortable again. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that it was hard for a man of the llano to beg. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment of silence, and then Roscuro said to the queen, “I beg your pardon. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Not because she came to me and begged me to forgive her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begged the doctors not to operate, even though they told him that it was a relatively simple procedure and cautioned him of the dangers involved in not operating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And me, a lonely girl who missed her family and begged for a second chance. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder what any of this has to do with outer space, but Coach’s eyes beg me not to ask him anything in front of the Allens, so I don’t. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was leaving with some of the members and he begged them to let me come along. They didn’t really want me there. Some girl named Lynn stepped on me.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was right pitiful the way she set to begging. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

At last I went again to him, begging him to do what he could. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She begged that Calpurnia see her through in secret; they could take the baby away by night when it came. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mam begs the post office to take me back. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“They hang out here because, well, it’s a safe place to hang out and beg. We tolerate them, but—” “Oh, Hazel is awesome,” Don said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She begs him not to, and pulls two records from her jacket. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Your Grace, whatever my traitor brother has done, I had no part. You know that, I beg you, please—" “Get her up!” A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This is my own mother, begging.This is worse than the dole, the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Dispensary. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I heard him come to the door and beg. I laughed all night.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They needn’t know,” he whispered, leaning close to me, an almost frantic look in his eyes as though he were begging not to be rejected. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He identified himself, begged them to give him refuge in that house which during his nights as a pariah he had remembered as the last redoubt of safety left for him in life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Mama, please,” I beg, “when are we going to get air- conditioning?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Daisy Mae rubbed up against my leg, and outside I heard Lucifer beg for entrance. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sat back as if waiting for us to beg her to tell us what she knew. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” Billy would say, or “I beg your pardon.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not there, but in a corner sat Russell, the young man who had been campaigning around the village, begging the Eskimos to vote “No” on requests for liquor licenses by the local restaurants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I tried to leave the table, then he begged me to stay just so he could grill me about Lovey? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But it seemed they had all forgotten that, for Salva now had to beg for scraps, which were given grudgingly. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Openings were going begging that paid nearly twice the money. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg of you. Alex, what part of ‘nothing he cannot do’ did you think was worth testing? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You’re all pasty white where your swimsuit covers you up,” she said, her head close to mine and her mouth huge and hollow, and begging for me to stuff hay into it, so I did. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

To her mother’s inquiries she answered that she was quite well, and Jo’s she silenced by begging to be let alone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged her to take me with her, but she said I could not miss school and my father needed me and besides, she had to go alone. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there were other things she begged for. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, please spare us!” begs Isabel, unable to find the patience to keep silent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

"I beg your pardon, Father, Mother," said Tristran, "but I shall be leaving the village tonight. I may be gone for some time." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her tone of voice suggested that she was possibly begging someone for a heart or kidney, something urgent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Sir,” said I, “we must beg your mercy. Might we climb aboard?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“You, Jam, begging for the life of a monster, pleading a plea to the hunter.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“It was done in secret. What’s more, your mother begged me not to tell you or anyone. She chose to simply call you ‘Son.’ Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The twins had begged her to help them climb it, so she’d pointed out the footholds and handholds all the way up. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that. . . that it seems like begging,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she fell on her knees, saying: ‘I beg thee!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Only when the moon began to rise—the edge of its great disc growing brighter and brighter on the skyline below and behind them—did he at last beg Holly to hurry. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many a night, and this night is no different, a shy voice calls out of the darkness, begging their pardon. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beg you. We are peaceful,” Papa said, breaking the silence, his voice cracking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The aunts in Hong Kong said to send money quickly; their children were begging on the sidewalks, and mean people put dirt in their bowls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begs Theo to come visit on his way to Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Estermont thinks the flaming heart ill-chosen and begs to fight beneath the crowned stag as of old. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It was more like, he followed me all the way to La Cocina, begging me to accept a new coffee.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I would like to beg your indulgence while I review that testimony. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s great having four big, frisky German shepherds around; we’ve come such a long way since the days when Adria and I had to beg our dad for just one dog. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She’s the same person who ran to your apartment when she was eleven with a filthy kitten shoved down the front of her coat, begging you to take it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Make no vainglorious boasts, I beg you. Pride is a grievous sin. The stone men were proud as well, and the Shrouded Lord was proudest of them all.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Other abolitionists at Peterboro begged the sisters to lower their profile, fearful that the controversy around women’s rights would detract from the main cause, ending slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sobbing, she begged us to come with her to her village w here she had prepared a safe shelter. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip the telegram under the door and cycle back down to the Franciscan church to beg for the repose of Theresa’s soul. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tell him about it before he found out, then beg for his silence or something. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Finally her husband came to beg her to change her clothes and make an appearance in the garden, even if only for ten minutes, to quell the rumors of the guests. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ophie had begged him to stay, he’d taken the arm of a pretty white lady and walked away, his hat at a jaunty angle. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Grey Worm is come as well, Khaleesi. They beg words with you, most urgently.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nana winks at me, and I beg with my eyes for her to stop. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to beg him to become Papa Legba again and disappear. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It is even more like begging if your sister gives one for you.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And the interview with the mother—Bee-something, Ted hadn’t caught the full name—who had begged for her baby on camera. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How ungraceful! the way I practically beg him for a reply.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He stared at her, then pulled at her hand as though begging her to groom him, to comfort him, as she had done throughout his life. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, please don’t do that,” Stella begged in alarm. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She thought about begging further, and maybe even trying to work some tears out of her eyes so she could get at those precious cakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Please. I don’t have enough fuel for more fires,” she begged. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed the students a thick envelope, begging them to take it immediately to the US embassy in Moscow, which was not far away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I finally begged the club to let me place the matter before the leaders of the Communist party for decision. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a normal year, I’d be begging and pleading to go in late with a note of excuse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I could beg her for the honor of a dance and cut her throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Marlena. Darling. Look at me. I’m on my knees. I’m begging you. What more can I do? My darling—my sweet—please come inside with me. We’ll talk about it. We’ll work it out.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Even the Buddha himself went begging in the morning. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived that way for two weeks before Taryn and I begged Vivi to take us home, to take us back to Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mom begs him to tell her how long it has been since he stopped loving her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I expect him to beg off as quickly as possible. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The old woman stood silently for a long moment, then she ran back to her home, grabbed her prepared bag of possessions, and begged her son-in-law to flee with her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean that. I do beg your pardon.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In a fit of madness, I begged her favor to wear in the tourney, never dreaming she would grant my request, yet she did. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They begged me so continuously to come to God that it was impossible for me to ignore them without wounding them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Mandana who begged and pleaded with her to carry my mom to term. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Would we become like the orphan child we often saw in the village streets, begging for bread and eating scraps of meat like a wild animal? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I stormed out, expecting him to follow after me, begging forgiveness, and when he didn’t, my fury doubled. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Prim begged so hard, cried even, I had to let him stay. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“That also, so you drink up your sweety-milk and beg no more.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at me for a long moment, and I half expected her to beg off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Uhmma, I beg, following her down the hall to the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ocean creatures drizzled in sauces or begging to be dipped in spicy concoctions. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And if Richie had been inside waiting for her, maybe she would have dropped to her knees and begged him to let her stay. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Don’t start,” he begged in a threatening voice, both hands tightening around his beer bottle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tom said, “Let me beg you never to tell that story to Will. He’d have you locked up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My child, what do you mean? What is his age, I beg to know!” cried Miss Clara. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found them around the train station, where they begged, gossiped, and periodically struck off in packs looking for food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I know. I’ve heard. My mother begs me to bring her the stories each night.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

What about the people she had seen begging? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He knew he was going crazy when he heard himself proposing marriage to her, when he begged her to take the diamond ring and be his companion for life. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I race this way and that, not sure what to do, until I find myself on the corner begging everyone who passes to borrow their cell phone. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I beg you not to talk about running water. Excuse me.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Think about Diana Ross waking me up in the morning, begging me not to get out of bed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wound in your lip begs to differ.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The smart thing was to give Nita up, to buy the safety he couldn’t beg for. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I text Janae, letting her know that Layla is okay, and beg her not to say a word to our parents. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They’re waiting to beg for any food left over from the priests’ dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had begged him to say how he died and the chief told him that he was killed ingloriously as he sat at table, struck down as one butchers an ox. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at his brother, begging him silently to agree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was it about him that made me act like a complete idiot, practically begging him to walk me home even after he lied about following me into CVS? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The fruit or whatever are like little shriveled dots but sweet and chewy and I’ve finished the whole pack in half a minute before I notice Manchee begging. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He said that the central air force headquarters had already received more than a hundred letters from young women begging to be admitted to military schools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Perry taught him several tricks: to play with a paper ball, to beg, to perch on Perry’s shoulder. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged him to stay on the porch. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an awkward system, and it took me a full year to become reasonably adept, and another year before I could set down every word without begging him to speak more slowly. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"I beg your humble pardon! Next time I'll let him put a dent in your stupid pudding basin!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“At least let us try to talk to him,” Narciso begged. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I broke out crying and begging pardon, and hugged Joe round the neck: who dropped the poker to hug me, and to say, “Ever the best of friends; an’t us, Pip? Don’t cry, old chap!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Florence,” I begged him that afternoon, “try to answer.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they approach Jones’s house, Booth begs to be allowed inside for a moment of warmth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She also didn’t know how to console Tidbit, who was crying softly and begging for his mother and his dog. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sobbed, begging my mother to let me go, telling her that I would never write such words again; but she did not relent until the last soap-word had been cleaned away. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bowed to Min and begged his leave for a short moment; Min waved him off, hardly seeming to hear him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Baba kept choking him until the young mother, the one the Russian officer had fancied, begged him to stop. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We just need to know something. Please,” he begged. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was very tired, and begged the King’s pardon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was beg a ride from Harry, the one brother who could deny me nothing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I beg Dad to drive me to school the next morning so I don’t have to face Nora on the bus. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Your Grace,” said Missandei, “this one begs leave to say that half of Meereen will be there to watch men bleed and die.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They beg me for details of the situation in District 12 and I tell them about life under Thread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hears her cries when she begs Ma to give her food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cry and I moan, and when my mother comes in, I beg her to talk to my dad. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But he immediately softened his voice and begged her to leave before the police came in, because he was in a position to know that the government was not going to let them stay indefinitely. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They observed from their canoes; an audience little comforting to those who begged for mercy in the water by our side. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He had wept, too, and begged for a second chance. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I begged the game ranger to let me move about the forests by myself. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Would they have to walk the unfamiliar roads and knock on strangers’ houses to beg for food? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“When the family just disappeared, I went to her friends and begged them to tell me where she went. God, it was pitiful. I was crying on Sarah Bishop’s front doorstep, for Christ’s sake.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Where did my poor blind girl go begging last night?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of the dominating father figure abusing us for our own good, he was a chain-smoking newjack begging re-porters to “bear with me—I’m a little nervous.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her legs were cramping, begging to be moved. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The leopard mother looked up at the brave hunter and begged him to spare the lives of the two cubs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In die songs, the knights never screamed nor begged for mercy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Ivy hears this, she begs permission to stay late, too. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

That party was absolutely begging for a police visit. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

After we presented test results that confirmed his innocence in 2000, I begged prosecutors to retest the evidence, but for fifteen years they refused. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She gave George a baseball cap and sunglasses to wear and took pictures until George couldn’t take it anymore and begged her to stop. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You who saved my soul. One day. Look, sweet Jesus. Look down, on these your suffering children—” The church begged, “Look down, Lord.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice Paul wasn’t willing to beg for Wilson’s weak support during his reelection campaign. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every cell of her body begged to let go, but the battle-hungry spirits inside of her were not about to quit. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’m so overcome with gratitude that I have to remind myself: This is my reward for all those years of begging and pleading, trying to whip up enthusiasm and getting nowhere. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Just the other night, she practically begged me to be her boyfriend again, and now she says she can’t see me? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Send me a letter, I beg you, and Farewell. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

To a readership obliged to watch in disbelief as the legions toppled one Greek-speaking kingdom after the other, Polybius begged to offer some historical context. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

For a long moment she did not speak, but those eyes were begging. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Gladly... but if we may beg the queen’s indulgence, is there some place with fewer eyes and ears?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He made her feel as though the world belonged to them—as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My breathing hitches a little, but that voice in my head that begs me not to let him touch me is nothing more than a murmur. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Or I’d cut up fruit for Methuselah, still hanging around begging, and catch grasshoppers for Leon, the chameleon we keep in a wooden crate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really begged that woman for my money. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba Joseph had several pets: a duiker antelope, a bush baby, a large tortoise, and an enormous warthog that waddled after him, begging for treats. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please,” he begged the peach vendor, “I’m so thirsty. One small peach, your smallest?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Legolas and Gimli were early abroad, and they begged leave to go up into the City; for they were eager to see Merry and Pippin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maribel had to beg her parents to let her go to Fall Formal, and they only said yes because she got into all AP classes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: If Tyrone would come back and beg for your help, would you help him? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without him, Inigo knew where he would be: on his back begging wine in some alley entrance. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Caton had gone begging to Mr. Dubonnet, and the union chief had unbent just enough to let him build me the nozzles, casements, fins, and nose cones I needed for my display. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This time I begged Him to gather me that I might join my mother in His holy Heaven. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Father never lets me go that far, but I beg him anyhow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him just to be quiet and not make a fussy to beg, even. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the person of Death visited me, and I beat it with my fists and begged for it to depart, waking myself. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“For the marines to kill them? They begged for the marines to kill them?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this the King trembled very much, opened and shut his visor several times, coughed, wove his reins into a knot, exclaimed, “I beg your pardon?” and showed signs of cantering away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she’ll have to beg a doctor in our Bible study for a notepad. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Was Hamlet somehow begging me to leave the court of Denmark? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Joe is begged to wrap up all the candy in the store and order more. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

If Pima weren’t such a good crew boss, she’d already be on the beach, hungry and begging for anything that came her way. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They carried begging bowls, and the air was heavy with their chants. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I beg your pardon,” says Marlena, startled by the sight of the crippled body on the cot. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looked over at me, his eyes bugging, begging me to bail him out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He practically begged me for it and said he would be fired if he did not bring it back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good thing I’d bit my tongue, because I came real close to saying those stupid begging words to Mr. Amos. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I touched the bag where the hoopskirt begged for release. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The old man had been chased away because of his spells and now they were going to have to beg him to come back again. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I asked. I begged them to send me back, but the sluggers aren’t keen on taking commands.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Pomp begged him to rally, for there was no cause yet for uneasiness; but Slant merely whispered, “I may be dead already.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘In the language of Orthanc help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain. But we do not come here to beg.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Back in Tehran, my mom was only nineteen and had spent the last year begging her overbearing father to send her to university in London. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And it became clear to L.V. that there wasn’t much use waiting for the crooked front door to open on Boobie standing there with that infectious smile on his face begging for forgiveness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the king sent his second daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon did the same. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She begs to be allowed to rest Lincoln’s head on her lap. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings after dinner, Craig and I would sometimes beg my dad to take us out for an aimless drive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Hold up. We? That’s why you begged me to come to this party? So you can have a tag team partner?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Seven’s amulet spun wildly, and she closed her eyes, begging one final time for the thing she’d begged for whenever she thought of this night: Please let it turn purple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t leave me,” I begged in a broken voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Johnny was all for telling Thomas Rommely but Mary begged him not to just yet. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his train squeals to a stop around noon, migrants jump down and look for houses where they can beg for a drink and a bite to eat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I want to stand up and chase them and ask them and beg them to tell me who’s behind this and why, but. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She broke down crying and turned away, putting her hands up to her face, and I knew she wanted me to run after her to beg forgiveness. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dad is telling Mam up in Italy she should never beg like that. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She clasped her hands together and shook them in a pleading motion, begging with her eyes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Please, if possible, I am begging for your help. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m ruined! The General will never come here again. I’ll go out of business, and my children will beg in the streets.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"He walked all this way to sing how loyal he is and beg for recompense." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You have principles and you don’t want to compromise them—but I’m begging you, Richard. There’s got to be something you can do....I mean...the baby...” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I even begged my mother to let me change schools be-cause people made fun of me too much. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Get begged for five minutes of play: “Steven, you never, ever play with me — ever!” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If ’tis neither one nor the other, then ’tis neighbor against neighbor, or ’tis the lord of the manor against the peasants, begging thy pardon, young master.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I see you begging every day....You know I have spent more than I ought already.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially my mother, who, after Aurelia got out of drug rehab, begged her to come to a dance class with her so she could stay busy and keep her mind off getting lost again. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Pastor John Cross walked through the crowd with a megaphone, tears streaming down his face, and begged the crowd to be calm and nonviolent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After each score Rik put the cash in a bank safe deposit box, and finally, after my constant begging, I was paid. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The next day after school, I begged Annie to go to the gym to help me practice. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Arya of House Stark comes here to be wed. A woman grown and flowered, truebom and noble, she comes to beg the blessings of the gods. Who comes to claim her?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A robe of undyed wool belted with a hempen rope marked him far one of the begging brothers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Animals and trees withered and died and the people begged for rain, hut Jade Dragon ignored them. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Bradford begged to make a phone call, pleaded for just one more day, but of course, those things were not granted. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He hated that there were women and children begging in the street while criminals drove around in fancy cars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now, I had to practically beg for attention. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

But his mother had begged her favorite son to go so he could look after his father. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He looks like a homeless guy begging for change on a corner, but instead of an empty can, he’s holding a pie plate buried under a mound of whipped cream. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I started screaming, forgetting all about my father’s rule, begging for forgiveness from my assailant for whatever wrong I had done. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to hear him beg, don’t want to listen to the whine in his voice, the self-pity. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please help me do something,” she begged, her eyes on the crowd. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I say, giving him a look that begs him not to start. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Soft begging words to Ganesha and the Buddha, to Kali-Mary Mercy and the Christian God... she was praying to anything at all, begging the Fates to let her walk from the shadow of death. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m begging everyone around me to do something. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The incongruity of queuing to beg for food made her feel uncomfortable, blemished. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Propping herself up on her elbow, she begs us to help her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and tried to telepathically beg my mother not to attack him. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I give her a warning look, begging her not to say anything else. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he settled on the Skraeling, and said, “I beg your pardon. Have I asked about something it’s forbidden to know?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew not his word, and hesitated; he, perceiving my fault, explained its meaning and derivation while my mother begged for water. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My body begged for sleep but my mind warned me not to trust these people. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Your father begged on the roads, and your mother’s roora was a basket of stale millet! My roora was a herd of fine cows.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wounded man screamed for a while, then begged for a while, then went back to screaming. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thou wert first a human child on this day; I beg Thee, now look upon us with childish compassion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I usually have to beg her and then throw in a free back rub before she’ll tell me anything. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He'd sent word begging Gauguin to come visit, but Gauguin hadn't. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sitting down on their rears, they would cry and beg for help. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I propose we enjoy our carriage ride in the country. It would hardly be proper to remove my coat, but if I can beg my lady’s indulgence, I will unfasten a button or two.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Paul begged him, ‘Don’t do that, Daddy, don’t bring them here.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess somebody somewhere loves to see poor folks in the hood begging for food. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And it takes me a moment to realize: this is the show Eva has been begging me to watch. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

With a gang of children, I roamed the streets, begging pennies from passers-by, haunting the doors of saloons, wandering farther and farther away from home each day. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His family maintained that he was beaten by police and jail officials who then denied him his asthma inhaler and medication despite his begging for it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, it was so small, I naturally mistook it for one of the flyaway things you sometimes wear. How do you keep it on?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyelashes are stupidly long, and she has the kind of mouth that begs for bright red lipstick. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It began with pleas from the woman begging for the lives of her children, and the children sobbing in despair. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Diego had just gotten his license and he begged our moms to let us have the car for the day. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Though I beg Cook to let me run errands for her so I can be out in the markets every day, I hear nothing from the Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I had begged bread from the officials, I had wondered dimly if the outcasts could become united in action, thought, and feeling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This has been a challenging few days for us all. I beg your continued patience.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then one day he snuck in a Snickers bar for lunch, and this kid practically begged him for it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bennet, with great civility, begged her ladyship to take some refreshment; but Lady Catherine very resolutely, and not very politely, declined eating anything; and then, rising up, said to Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, stop that,” Ron begged her, “I feel sick enough as it is — quick, hide me!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She tried to get out as quickly and painlessly as possible, but after she begged curfew, he began to cry. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

None of the travelers had money or anything of value to trade, so they had to beg for food. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have asked Sister Agatha to beg the Superior to let our wedding be this afternoon, and am waiting her reply.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She’d heard myths like that: a kid with an old lady begs for shelter, and when the rude mortals refuse—boom, they get turned into banana slugs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Do come please; I have begged you in my thoughts now these many weeks and still no word. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Bono begged, and the man raised his head and put his hand to his mouth, awaiting some move to holler. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘But let us not speak of it again! Not yet. Say nothing to the others, I beg, not until it is plain that there is no other way.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pleading was followed by an extended period of screaming that ultimately gave way to more begging. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Day and night I begged my mother and father to take the bags away, pointing to them, shaking with terror because no one saw them but me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, Arthur,” she begged, but I didn’t bother with any “pleases.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loathe admitting I wanted him to pull me into the restroom to make out or send me a text, begging me to come to his party. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They told of the dying man who pulled himself to the window of his bedchamber and begged people to bring him a drink of water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed Candy Man sitting alone with his chessboard, begging some of the other guys to sit and play. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Please,” I begged, “don’t be polite. It’s very kind of you but I shall be quite all right if the waiter just wipes the cloth.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I begged him. I begged him to be a lawyer.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So they starved and froze and died in the snow, their arms frozen outward, still begging. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I believe she talks to Ruth May more or less constantly, begging forgiveness when no one is around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of people was begging to be let in to search. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fyrian had begged, once the novelty of a baby in the family had worn off. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He even walked me to school for two weeks afterward and begged me to be more careful with strangers, especially when money is involved. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bleach and oranges both I had to bargain for, or beg for in the case of supplies flown in to us by the awful man Eeben Axelroot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can still hear them begging when I go sit with Brother Khoi, who rarely speaks anymore but I’m happy to be near him. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I begged him not to take me but he say I got to go. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“She won't even repeat the questions on the spelling test, no matter how much I beg.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I watched them cry, yell, and beg for help. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Soon I was begging for those ballet lessons that Mama had promised me in the hotel room in Ghana. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman put her arms around the man and begged him to stand up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In it Paul Revere was begged by a make-believe relative in Ipswich to come in all haste. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next present was the digital camera I’d begged my parents for all last summer. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"I beg you the honor of acting in your place. Give this task to me, my lord, and I swear I shall not fail you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t seem to notice when Sefia passed the book to Reed, golden clasps gleaming, begging to be opened. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I begged her not to go with him,” he said quietly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Howard’s voice bubbled over the line, begging him to join the festivities. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He depicted her begging for mercy and offering gifts. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

By the time Captain Short got through with this Fowl character, he’d be begging her to get out of his manor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Starting when we were really little, Sal and I used to beg to have sleepovers on the weekends, and lots of nights I fell asleep happy with Sal next to me on the roll-away. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He begged the Lord’s mercy and forgiveness, prayed for the souls of all he loved and for Christ to find it in His heart to let Julie live. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But I promise you, Ashley—I swear on all that is holy—that when I unlock that chest, when I’m done with you, you’ll beg me to let you stay here and work for me.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if you beg it of me. Just now, it will suffice for you to be her bath maid. I won’t have her smelling like you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That night, a woman upstairs begged her to accept a bag of frozen meats and vegetables, because she was moving the next day, and she hated to see good food go to waste. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She no longer begs Madame Manec to take her to the train station, to write another letter, to spend another futile afternoon at the prefecture trying to petition occupation authorities to locate her father. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s like he’s begging me, Please, cousin, get cool, try a little bit. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Often when we were hungry my mother would beg me to go to my father’s job and ask him for a dollar, a dime, a nickel . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I pictured my father up north in New Jersey begging for work, and the devastated look on my mother’s face, and I hardened my heart. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, I was starving by four o’clock, so on the way home from school I would beg Gay to stop for a burger. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Koch phoned Houseman, begging him to pick another story. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They would show the image over and over again while they read the names of those who were trapped inside, begging for help. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Also I beg you to buy those necessary supplies I took the liberty of advocating, as I would like you to begin using oils as soon as possible. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

His mother lay dying in a trench, and he begged Yevgeniya to fly to find his father at the front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Rest, Deydey,” she begged, in fear at his fixed and set face, his deep eyes. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When I left I was a scared kid who cried and begged Ma to let me stay with her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to beg from my mother again?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"That may be so," Davos said, "but when I was a boy in Flea Bottom begging for a copper, sometimes the septons would feed me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I ignored her warnings and went on begging for food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my back to Jack, I beg her with a look to stop, but he grabs a rice cake and hurries out. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She did not want them to be wholly “children of the pavement,” she always said when begging to have them for a space. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then I am asking you, Miss Podgórska. I am begging for your help. For me and my two children.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bram begged me not to read the final paragraph, but I was adamant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find myself whispering long, never-ending sentences to God, begging for Mother to feel some relief, pleading for good news about the book, sometimes even asking for some hint of what to do about Stuart. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I finally say, the most obvious question to lead with but one that begs an answer I don’t want to hear. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon,” the other official said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Therefore I beg a prohibition against using any wheel machines, either for grinding or bruising or any furnaces like mine, without my consent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Seven days of knocking on doors and making calls and begging with store owners and anyone who would listen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Suleiman,” she begged my father, “I want to see my children one last time before I die.” Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She met him as he was looking for her to beg her to do just what she had already decided on. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began, “Mr. Dussel, you seem to believe further discussion of the matter is pointless, but I beg you to reconsider.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This was the kid who had spent entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think the guy whose downfall basically took our respective childhoods with it was begging for change fifteen minutes from my house six years later? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He has had short periods of consciousness during which time he has begged me to write to Jenny Creighton—he calls for her constantly in his delirium. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a stop through Mobile, Alabama, a black man accosted him, crying and begging for a ride up north. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Roman fauns tended to hang around and beg and eat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Please, Lissa” I begged, “put those things away. Your father will see the mess and know someone’s been in here.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They agreed to marry and go ’way up north, where Cholly said steel mills were begging for workers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is well, and begs to be dutifully remembered to you and her mother.—Yours, etc., Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

‘Then tell us some other tale of the old days,’ begged Sam; 'a tale about the Elves before the fading time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Save it for Joffrey. He likes a good beg." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Stop, he begged, or God will send another earthquake to punish us all. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She knows I’m begging, begging without saying, Don’t tell. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Then he sent an application off to regional headquarters, begging for a transfer. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced from boy to boy, begging with his eyes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they abandoned their cars and staggered up to the houses of strangers and pounded on their front doors, begging for and receiving shelter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I went back to my street corner and proceeded to waste three hours begging, not gaining so much as a thin shim for my ef- forts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I beg your pardon," said Mr. McKee with dignity, "I didn't know I was touching it." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

To beg my mercy, or to harm me? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A child with no descent line would not soften her life but only trail after her, ghostlike, begging her to give it purpose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks them in the eye with the begging hope that they’ll hear her and she says, “Because it’s true.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I can only humbly thank you, and beg your pardon that I have not been truthful. One day you will know why.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They didn’t talk to her, they didn’t press around her and beg her for favors, they didn’t even reveal themselves to her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I begged my mother to take me away; she wept and told me to wait, that soon she would take us to Arkansas. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why canna he kill me, then? I begged him to have done with it I told him that if he left me to be patched, I should but fight him fresh when I was mended. “ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kids cried and begged Dad to stop, but he ignored us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mother’s eyes were begging him to tell her it wasn’t true. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says ’tis all right for her to be begging at the St.Vincent de Paul Society for a docket for food but he can’t stick a few spuds in his pocket. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, I wander from body to body, begging those I’ve killed for forgiveness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sleep, just doing everything I could to ignore Chris’s text message begging me for details, and trying not to text Lovey to see what the hell I did to blow the night. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

That didn’t work, either, so we begged Maureen to please stop crying. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I just...Mom begged me to come with her when she left.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Sekani has a stomach bug and begged me to bring him Home.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“He says he begs to differ with you but he feels he has already fulfilled his contract obligations,” Buddy whimpered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his amazement, China was a place where even dogs seemed well fed, and if he ran low on cash to buy food, he begged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Seven had the attic bedroom; it had a skylight and tall ceilings, and she’d begged her parents to let her move up there when she was ten. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It is your turn to listen, and I beg you will not interrupt me, because there is very little time,” he said quietly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I stood stiff and solid, swallowing the bitter lump that had formed in my throat, and swore to myself I wouldn’t cry, wouldn’t beg him not to go, wouldn’t even miss him when he left. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Call me Love, Rucker,” she begged, kneeling down by the bed so she could look right in his face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

On the third night I asked him for some hand lotion, I didn’t want to sound begging, but I wanted what I could get. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father hadn’t begged him to stay—he’d begged him to go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she’ll read it and come begging. There’s always hope, right?” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad said that when the paramedics arrived, Shawn was sobbing, begging for Mother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes begged me to stop asking questions. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She begged the officials to return us in time for Christmas. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He would rent a car, devour the surrounding towns, explore the coast, visit famed mosques, meet women who would beg him to stay. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then the old man, who had been sleeping, awoke, and they gave him a bowl and the four of them went out on the road to beg. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

So they decided to drive straight to the INS and beg. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“But please, I beg you, grant me this second wish.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A child near you tugs on her mother’s sleeve, begging to know what it says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"I beg your pardon," said Mr. Wolfshiem, "I had a wrong man." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I planned to beg and plead with Uncle Clancey to let me live with them and finish high school in Cincinnati. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presently a grass blade trembled and Miyax saw a young bird fluttering its wings as it begged to be fed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not listen when he begged her not to let them come again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

All morning, I tagged behind Mundín, begging him to trade me that packet of clay. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Pynto was soon too busy to pay her any mind, but several of his regulars dropped coins into her begging bowl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I begged them to send telegrams on Anatole’s behalf, and they will, by the bushel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am an old man—an old dying man — and I am here to ask you—beg you—to help me get him back. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I had been a begging puppy and a delighted slave, yet I hadn’t felt cursed since I met Lucinda. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We received word that a group of children were begging for food. Would that be you kids?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I beg your pardon?" said Grant through gritted teeth. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They started praying for it every night, while I was begging my body to miscarry. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after that gesture, that seemed to beg for help, how could I leave him? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring me back up, Chancellor. I beg of you.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then let me go with you!” she begged, as she had so many times before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see him still, begging, “No one will find me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

"A sweet dream, Shae. Now put it aside, I beg you. It can never be." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Were my artificial neural chips begging me to recognize what was left behind? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He ran down the block to Mrs. Gindler, the midwife, and begged her to hurry. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet there was a terror in my throat as I begged her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the applause begun than Mr. 13-04, the music- master, bounded out beside the band, held out his hands for silence, and begged the ladies and gentlemen that they should be still. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, this merely begs the further question: of what is 'dignity' comprised? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pray, I begged him silently as I gripped the arms of my chair. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps tomorrow, he thought, I will not need to beg for food. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are doing all we can to recapture Black,” said the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge, this morning, “and we beg the magical community to remain calm.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Tired of pursuing her up and down the house, begging her with his eyes and drilling holes in the bathroom wall, he decided to devote himself to politics. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not cry, scream, or beg for mercy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the children and gave them some sweets and took photographs of them and they clamored around him and begged for more. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We have no way of knowing, and perhaps this piece of human scum, who sits here today begging for mercy, is wise in not telling us. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"My lady begs that you excuse her absence. Her babes are still too young for such a journey, and she was loath to leave them." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s my little sister Mija. She was not feeling well for several days. Nothing the shaman did was working; she was just getting sicker. So I begged my mom to come here.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ned begged her to tell him what had occurred, but she refused. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If he had had more time, Moss would have begged his mother to take him to get a larger shirt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The cold would be torture enough, but the real nightmare is listening to Cato, moaning, begging, and finally just whimpering as the mutts work away at him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a tale that begged to be told, and so the story of the Mercury 13 spread all over campus, inspiring everyone who heard it. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She replies tartly, “I was going to say Wednesday after school, but you’ll be out begging strangers for candy, so forget it.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I begged God to please let us all survive. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As I closed the door, Madam started in again, begging him to take her with him, or at least to let her know where he was going. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask you to please consider that factor, in fact I beg you. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I longed to beg my parents to take me home. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that anytime I would be kicked in the face by the white bus driver, I started begging for mercy. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you kids have fun?” she asks, and we know she’s hoping we’ll beg for permission to never go there again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were peasants who had also been expelled from their hacienda, arriving as humbly as their ancestors of the preceding century to beg the patron to give them work in the coming harvest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, please, let me go,” Chencho begged as he crouched on the ground before us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I charge the eighty-five dollars to Mother’s account since she’s always begging me to go buy new clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But Merry begged for the last time not to be parted from him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Actually, he takes Rafey and Tariq to Sunday school at the mosque, but I tag along by begging in my nicest voice. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Better save your own life and join me ... or you’ll meet the same end as your parents.... They died begging me for mercy....” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Shin ran to the guard, begging him for help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She begged her mom to let her do her room over, so we all ended up with new rooms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Someday,” she had told Matty and her father when they begged her to return with them to Village. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The day I begged bread from the city officials was the day that showed me I was not alone in my loneliness, society had cast millions of others with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mr. Frodo Baggins is a real gentle hobbit, I always have said, whatever you may think of some others of the name, begging your pardon. And I hope my Sam’s behaved hisself and given satisfaction?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When Robert comes over with his hair blown out into an afro, I beg my mother for the same hairstyle. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“How come she ain’t got no problem defending herself from that crazy man? But she chase after Miss Hilly like she just begging for abuse?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They begged to be shot quickly, so that they could die while their minds were still clean.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A young man with a marvelous wide mustache said, “General Pender begs to report the enemy is falling back.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I splash Richard in the face until he begs for breath. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bebe had tried to tell them she only wanted to see her baby, but wasn’t sure now what she had said, if she had argued or threatened or raged or begged. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He quieted down after the drink; got sleepy and begged her not to go away. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the boy pulled him down onto his lap again and spoke to his father in a begging tone. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

More whispered words: prayer sounds, begging, an exhalation of storm and salt terror. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Clark had accused him of begging in public. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had begged Janie to stay on with them and she had stayed a few weeks to keep them from feeling bad. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, please, Mr. Kimberley,” begged Kit, as the children, one by one, slipped through the door and escaped. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And then, no matter how much Ranee objected, how many tears she cried, how she begged and invoked her husband's memory, the disaster came. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had begged Patty to let her leave the dog there for a week; she’d given dog food and money to one of Patty’s teenage sons to care for poor Mekay. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We lay in our beds listening to Nelson’s steady, high-pitched begging. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I beg you in the name of the Mother," Catelyn began when a sudden gust of wind flung open the door of the tent. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He tells her he wanted to study, he just didn’t want to have to beg his mother for the money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I beg your pardon, Mam,” said the poor colonel at once. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even begged a scrap of silk ribbon from a traveler for Robin to use as a pennant for the masthead. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Figs! Do you have a fig? Please can I have a piece? I beg you. Only a little piece. I’m starving.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not even with a begging look in his eyes did he ask for help. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I come to school with a black eye and have to beg for a free lunch. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z