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  • King Loren had escaped, and lived long enough to surrender, pledge his fealty to the Targaryens, and beget a son, for which Tyrion was duly grateful.†   (source)
  • Men presumably dominated women from the very beginning because of their greater physical strength; it's men who earn a living, beget children and do as they please….†   (source)
  • I recited the 23rd Psalm, the 121st Psalm, the 100th and 137th and 19th and 66th Psalms, the 21st chapter of Revelation, Genesis one, Luke 22, First Corinthians, and finally John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.†   (source)
  • He makes much of Zeus taking the swan's form to ravish Leda and beget Helen (of Troy) on her, and he sees the archangel's appearance to the Virgin Mary in terms of wings and birds as well.†   (source)
  • I suppose there is something very special about an only begotten son.†   (source)
  • …but with abundant salty tears that ran down her cheeks and burned her nightdress and inflamed her life, because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when faced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.†   (source)
  • I am not so ignorant as to believe that Eldunari could beget offspring.†   (source)
  • He was getting to know well the odd jail-bleach the cotton mill puts on country cheeks, the curious, dulled, yet resentful expression of the eyes, begotten by continuous repetition of excessive hours of trivial, monotonous toil.†   (source)
  • Distance begets distance begets .†   (source)
  • Together, the two began the kind of conversation that flows seamlessly, unstoppably, each fork begetting another branch of common interest, a conversation that continues until this day.†   (source)
  • In the years since I typed that sentence, with Johnny Winter on the stereo not quite masking the sound of melting snow running downhill outside, I have started to go gray, I have begotten children, I have buried my mother, I have gone on drugs and gone off them, and I've learned a few things about myself-some of them rueful, some of them unpleasant, most of them just plain funny.†   (source)
  • But one rebel begets another rebel and soon there is disorder.†   (source)
  • "Evil begets evil," my uncle said.†   (source)
  • Good begets bad, something lost leads to found, and on and on.†   (source)
  • Happily, Aphra and her children remained in health, although, as always, the little ones looked thin and ill fed, for my father and Aphra both liked better the act that led to the begetting of children than they did the providing for them.†   (source)
  • True, I talk of dreams,
    Which are the children of an idle brain
    Begot of nothing but vain fantasy
    Her new baby doll.†   (source)
  • For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. — JOHN 3:16†   (source)
  • …concatenations of causes, primary and secondary: colonialism's legacies (especially the propagation of the myth that Tutsis were a superior race of alien invaders); past and present violence that hardened ethnic prejudice and helped to beget further violence; political opportunism that took advantage of a largely uneducated population, imbued, some have said, with the habit of obedience; overpopulation, environmental degradation, and economic distress that led to competition for…†   (source)
  • "Sire, maker, begetter—there are a million names for what he did," Isabelle said distractedly.†   (source)
  • 'Equus my only begotten son.†   (source)
  • All the children born or begotten in that year, and there were many, were fair to see and strong, and most of them had a rich golden hair that had before been rare among hobbits.†   (source)
  • What is paternity to the gods, who inhabit a succession of bodies, begetting scores of offspring by others who also change bodies four or five times a century?†   (source)
  • "For," he was saying, as if he spoke of something that had happened yesterday in town, "when God sent his Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ Our Lord"-he slightly bowed his head"as a Redeemer to mankind, He …"†   (source)
  • The selfsame pussywillow twigs interlace, The selfsame white buds beget their swellings, Whether on window sill or at crossroads, Whether in the street or in a workshop.†   (source)
  • "Yet not so poor," the other replied politely, "for the women of your house do you credit, and you have begotten five healthy sons."†   (source)
  • And the other, in letters of fire against a background of gold, stated: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever should believe in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.†   (source)
  • That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.   (source)
  • This would occasion distinctions, preferences, and exclusions, which would beget discontent.   (source)
  • In his truthful simple soul, not even the growing greed and worship of gold could beget any vice directly injurious to others.   (source)
  • Ideas beget ideas.   (source)
  • Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.   (source)
  • A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.   (source)
  • Christians believe Jesus was God's only begotten Son.   (source)
  • Both science and religion beget humility.   (source)
  • All doors are flung open-in stable and in cowbarn; Pigeons peck at oats fallen in the snow; And the culprit of all this and its life-begetter— The pile of manure-is pungent with ozone.†   (source)
  • All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret?†   (source)
  • And what is forever, anyway, but enough time for monster to beget monster?†   (source)
  • He begot three children, two sons and a daughter.†   (source)
  • ] ALAN: And he said 'Behold--I give you Equus, my only begotten son!'†   (source)
  • Why, to eat our fill, and to marry, and for the sons we shall beget.†   (source)
  • Mother …. full of grace …. you are the church …. may you understand this sacrifice of your only begotten son.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh gazed at the window, which displayed part of the church's doctrinal statement: WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BEGOTTEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY, AND IS BOTH TRUE MAN AND GOD.†   (source)
  • By the Riders' law, she is your shame as surely as if you had begotten her out of wedlock, a disgrace among humans, if I remember correctly.†   (source)
  • "Our bodies were shaped by our Father and Mother so we might join male to female and beget trueborn children," Raynard replied.†   (source)
  • And understanding begets empathy and compassion, even for the meanest beggar in the meanest city of Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.†   (source)
  • I take some small solace in knowing that he died a cruel death at the hands of the monster that he himself begot.†   (source)
  • Boy Jasper, inconsiderate of the heroic efforts that had gone into begetting him, got himself kicked in the head by a horse when he was three years old.†   (source)
  • Her curse had devoured the first Royal; he had been begotten in sin, and he had perished in sin; it was God's punishment, and it was just.†   (source)
  • But Roy had been begotten in the marriage bed, the bed that Paul described as holy, and it was to him the Kingdom had been promised.†   (source)
  • I held him, this child begotten in the street of an unknown man in a moment of easy desire, while the brightness of the future broke and fell about me like so many pieces of coloured glass.†   (source)
  • …tremble for them, and try to lead them right, try to feed them so they'll grow up strong; think of your love for your son, and how any evil that befalls him cracks up the heart, and think of the pain that God has borne, sending down His only begotten Son, to dwell among men on the sinful earth, to be persecuted, to suffer, to bear the cross and die? not for His own sins, like our natural sons, but for the sins of all the world, to take away the sins of all the world? that we might have…†   (source)
  • My begetter, lord over many Myrmidons, was Peleus, the son of Aiakos, a son of Zeus.†   (source)
  • We other gods obey you, as submissive as you please, while she goes unreproved; never a word, a gesture of correction comes from you— only begetter of the insolent child.†   (source)
  • The life therein, begotten by the father, is compounded of her darkness and his light.'†   (source)
  • Rams wrapped in theremogene beget no lambs.†   (source)
  • I like you because I have those same qualities in me and like begets liking.†   (source)
  • Arthur had been begotten on the night when Uther Pendragon burst into her castle.†   (source)
  • And I have beyond this begotten a son and son's sons.†   (source)
  • This animal, this thing begotten in a bed, could look on Him.†   (source)
  • New circumstances are constantly begetting new needs for our safety.†   (source)
  • … and we saw his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.†   (source)
  • No, but it is not possible, and the dreary begets its own fire, and so this never happens.†   (source)
  • Be off now, before I beget an ill wish toward ye.†   (source)
  • He was proud of their shame because it meant that he had the ability of begetting refined children.†   (source)
  • An inhuman thing, if possible, to have so many people together who beget nothing on one another.†   (source)
  • It was impossible that Siva should ever be moved to beget a son.†   (source)
  • The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.†   (source)
  • Didn't my own father beget one? and he none the worse for it?†   (source)
  • He had begotten two children by Sheba—girls.†   (source)
  • In the Hindu myth, she is the female figure through whom the Self begot all creatures.†   (source)
  • To the left of them are the plants and animals of their begetting.†   (source)
  • In that bed four children were begotten; there they were born; there first mother died; then father died, with a picture of mother hanging in front of him.†   (source)
  • All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination (artsem, it was called in Newspeak) and brought up in public institutions.†   (source)
  • And married her sister Ellen and begot a son and a daughter which—(Without gentleness begot, Miss Rosa Goldfield says)—without gentleness.†   (source)
  • He had drugs for stilling pain, for inducing sleep, for begetting beautiful dreams, lively spirits and the passion of love.†   (source)
  • Another will beget a child.†   (source)
  • Begetting four splendid children by her, handing over to her Brideshead and Marchmain House in St James's and all the money she can possibly want to spend, while he sits with a snowy shirt front at Larue's with a personable, middle-aged lady of the theatre, in most conventional Edwardian style.†   (source)
  • The Englishman begot children—a daughter and four sons—lived easily and carelessly, and bore patiently the weight of his wife's harsh but honest tongue.†   (source)
  • His philosophy about children was simple and profitable: a man enjoyed himself begetting them, put in as little money and effort into their upbringing as was possible, and then put them to work earning money for the father as soon as they got into their teens.†   (source)
  • After this Wang Lung could not bear to sleep in the room where O-lan had died and he took his possessions and moved altogether into the inner court where Lotus lived and he said to his eldest son, "Go with your wife into that room where your mother lived and died, who conceived and bore you, and beget there your own sons."†   (source)
  • Was there no sword, nothing with which to batter down these walls, this protection, this begetting of children and living behind curtains, and becoming daily more involved and committed, with books and pictures?†   (source)
  • Rhett was her husband and between them there was the unbreakable bond of two people who have shared the same bed, begotten and borne a loved child and seen that child, too soon, laid away in the dark.†   (source)
  • Only I have always liked to believe that he intended to name her Cassandra, prompted by some pure dramatic economy not only to beget but to designate the presiding augur of his own disaster, and that he just got the name wrong through a mistake natural in a man who must have almost taught himself to read) When he returned home in '66, she had not seen him a hundred times in her whole life.†   (source)
  • But I must beget secrets.†   (source)
  • Ah me, to think that out of all the children I begot and your mother bore, one after the other—a score or so—I forget—only you have lived!†   (source)
  • There were too many Irish ancestors crowding behind Gerald's shoulders, men who had died on scant acres, fighting to the end rather than leave the homes where they had lived, plowed, loved, begotten sons.†   (source)
  • There's no more to beget.†   (source)
  • And so at least we will all be together where we belong, since even if only he went there we would still have to be there too since the three of us are just illusions that he begot, and your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he took a servant and his bed and he slept again in the old earthen house and in the old bed where he had begotten children and where O-lan had died.†   (source)
  • He thought the greatest purity was outside human relations, that those only begot lies and cabbage-familiarity, and he told me, "I prefer stones any time.†   (source)
  • Strangest of all, he thought, was this union, by which he had begotten children, created a life dependent on him, with a woman so remote from all he understood.†   (source)
  • Again the image comes to us from the ancient cuneiform texts of the Sumerians, dating from the third and fourthFIGURE 60: The Separation of Sky and Earth (Egypt, date uncertain) millennia B.C. First was the primeval ocean; the primeval ocean generated the cosmic mountain, which consisted of heaven and earth united; An (the Heaven Father) and Ki (the Earth Mother) produced Enlil (the Air God), who presently separated An from Ki and then himself united with his mother to beget mankind.†   (source)
  • …that house to accept and retain human life; as though houses actually possess a sentience, a personality and character acquired not from the people who breathe or have breathed in them so much as rather inherent in the wood and brick or begotten upon the wood and brick by the man or men who conceived and built them—in this one an incontrovertible affirmation for emptiness, desertion; an insurmountable resistance to occupancy save when sanctioned and protected by the ruthless and…†   (source)
  • In the nature of the case it couldn't be avoided; and if you were going to prepare impoverished young folks for difficult functions, or if merely you were going to keep them out of trouble by having them read books, there were going to be some remarkable results begotten out of the mass.†   (source)
  • In the first half of the month of January, still penitently true to the New Year's reformation, he begot a child: by Spring, when it was evident that Eliza was again pregnant, he had hurled himself into an orgy to which even a notable four months' drunk in 1896 could offer no precedent.†   (source)
  • In the mixture there was beauty--a good proportion--and pimple-insolence, and parricide faces, gum-chew innocence, labor fodder and secretarial forces, Danish stability, Dago inspiration, catarrh-hampered mathematical genius; there were waxed-eared shovelers' children, sex-promising businessmen's daughters--an immense sampling of a tremendous host, the multitudes of holy writ, begotten by West-moving, factor-shoved parents.†   (source)
  • …the man himself had breathed between this September afternoon in 1909 and that Sunday morning in June in 1833 when he first rode into town out of no discernible past and acquired his land no one knew how and built his house, his mansion, apparently out of nothing and married Ellen Coldfield and begot his two children—the son who widowed the daughter who had not yet been a bride—and so accomplished his allotted course to its violent (Miss Coldfield at least would have said, just) end.†   (source)
  • He remained a year, during which he assisted in a great battle against the Amazon Aife, on whom he begot a son.†   (source)
  • How begot, how nourished?†   (source)
  • …the apotheosis of two doomed races presided over by its own victim—a woman with a face like a tragic magnolia, the eternal female, the eternal Who-suffers; the child, the boy, sleeping in silk and lace to be sure yet complete chattel of him who, begetting him, owned him body and soul to sell (if he chose) like a calf or puppy or sheep; and the mentor watching again, perhaps even the gambler now thinking Have I won or lost? as they emerged and returned to Bon's rooms, for that while…†   (source)
  • It had no clear title to the name of Pentland: a Scotch-Englishman of that name, who was a mining engineer, the grandfather of the present head of the family, had come into the hills after the Revolution, looking for copper, and lived there for several years, begetting several children by one of the pioneer women.†   (source)
  • From the nothing the begetting, From the nothing the increase, From the nothing the abundance, The power of increasing, The living breath.†   (source)
  • That she had been near death from tuberculosis, that the violent and garrulous Sheba had married an old man, who had begotten two children and was now about to die, that the whole little family, powerful in cohesive fidelity, were nursing their great sores in privacy, building up before the sharp eyes and rattling tongues of young boys a barrier of flimsy pretense and evasion, numbed him with a sense of unreality.†   (source)
  • The difficulties represented in this latter form of myth begin even as early as during the long darkness of the original, creature-begetting embrace of the cosmic parents.†   (source)
  • Herewith the world-discrediting insight of the monk, "All life is sorrowful," is combined with the world-begetting affirmative of the father: "Life must be!"†   (source)
  • But we are told that there existed among them direct sons of the now submarine father, who, like the children of his first begetting, had grown from infancy to manhood in a single272 day.†   (source)
  • At last the beings who had been begotten by Heaven and Earth, worn out by the continued darkness, consulted among themselves, saying, "Let us now determine what we should do with Rangi and Papa, whether it would be better to slay them or to rend them apart."†   (source)
  • Being alone in body and spirit begets loneliness, and loneliness begets more loneliness.†   (source)
  • Love, then, was the sacred and holy flame of life that sanctioned the begetting of children.†   (source)
  • "Like mother said to me when I was little, 'Love begets love.'†   (source)
  • The restless ambition which equality begets instantly takes this direction as it does all others.†   (source)
  • 'When I was fifteen, I had shot my man and begot my man, Sahib.'†   (source)
  • Confidence and reliance beget security, but suspicion is like to make us all wary.†   (source)
  • The idea of having begotten a child delighted him.†   (source)
  • How then could my soul beget a flunkey like you?†   (source)
  • Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines.†   (source)
  • She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village — appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.†   (source)
  • There is no lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is but a step between the crime and the dock.†   (source)
  • But, perhaps, because of the continual business of birth and of begetting which goes on upon every farm, Miriam was the more hypersensitive to the matter, and her blood was chastened almost to disgust of the faintest suggestion of such intercourse.†   (source)
  • He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.†   (source)
  • It was a highly respectable street, where all the houses were exactly alike, and where businessmen of moderate means begot and reared large families of children, all of whom went to Sabbath school and learned the shorter catechism, and were interested in arithmetic; all of whom were as exactly alike as their homes, and of a piece with the monotony in which they lived.†   (source)
  • Desires that melted with the snow, And dreams begotten This to-day: The sudden dawns we laughed to greet, That all could see, that none could share, Will be but dawns…. and if we meet We shall not care.†   (source)
  • To retrieve the consequences of that sin the Only Begotten Son of God came down to earth, lived and suffered and died a most painful death, hanging for three hours on the cross.†   (source)
  • It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity.†   (source)
  • Her nervous manner, begotten of a fear lest he should be injured by her course, might have been interpreted by a stranger as displeasure that Phillotson intruded his presence on her for the few brief minutes that remained.†   (source)
  • Her gift of palmistry and other sorts of fortune-telling begot for her at last a witch's name and fame.†   (source)
  • But it had begotten a spectral family--Mr. Harris, Miss Bartlett's letter, Mr. Beebe's memories of violets--and one or other of these was bound to haunt her before Cecil's very eyes.†   (source)
  • I was vain and frivolous; your wealth and position allured me: I married you, hoping in my heart that your great love for me would beget in me a love for you …. but, alas!†   (source)
  • Nor in any point could it have been at all deviated from, either with respect to Claggart or Billy Budd, without begetting undesirable speculations in the ship's company, sailors, and more particularly men-of—war's-men, being of all men the greatest sticklers for usage.†   (source)
  • Proportion, divine proportion, Sir William's goddess, was acquired by Sir William walking hospitals, catching salmon, begetting one son in Harley Street by Lady Bradshaw, who caught salmon herself and took photographs scarcely to be distinguished from the work of professionals.†   (source)
  • Of His own will begot He us with the word of truth, and we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures.†   (source)
  • "Oh, winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the seasons of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover, Blossom by blossom the spring begins.†   (source)
  • The subscription was small, and the room homely; and Jude's activity, uncustomary acquirements, and above all, singular intuition on what to read and how to set about it—begotten of his years of struggle against malignant stars—had led to his being placed on the committee.†   (source)
  • He took pity on our poor degraded parents and promised that in the fullness of time He would send down from heaven One who would redeem them, make them once more children of God and heirs to the kingdom of heaven: and that One, that Redeemer of fallen man, was to be God's only begotten Son, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, the Eternal Word.†   (source)
  • The imagery through which the nature and kinship of the Three Persons of the Trinity were darkly shadowed forth in the books of devotion which he read—the Father contemplating from all eternity as in a mirror His Divine Perfections and thereby begetting eternally the Eternal Son and the Holy Spirit proceeding out of Father and Son from all eternity—were easier of acceptance by his mind by reason of their august incomprehensibility than was the simple fact that God had loved his soul…†   (source)
  • They were sin-begotten.†   (source)
  • Or else you can beget children.†   (source)
  • Thinking begets thinking; as there were no sounds of Mrs. Corney's approach, it occured to Mr. Bumble that it would be an innocent and virtuous way of spending the time, if he were further to allay his curiousity by a cursory glance at the interior of Mrs. Corney's chest of drawers.†   (source)
  • Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do!†   (source)
  • One idea only still throbbed life-like within me — a remembrance of God: it begot an unuttered prayer: these words went wandering up and down in my rayless mind, as something that should be whispered, but no energy was found to express them — "Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help."†   (source)
  • In twice a thousand years shall the unholy invention of man labor at odds to beget the fellow to this majestic lie!†   (source)
  • A family likeness! aye, he did beget ye, ye young exiled royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come.†   (source)
  • In trying and doubtful positions, youth, custom, a steady contemplation of the difficulties which surround us, and a familiarity with them, imperceptibly diminish our apprehensions and beget comparative indifference, if not a vague and reckless confidence in some relief, the means or nature of which we care not to foresee.†   (source)
  • They say, Pleasure begets pleasure.†   (source)
  • Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade, on which, as a background, the living universe paints itself forth, but no fact is begotten by it; it cannot work, for it is not.†   (source)
  • You may as well say that the parents be the cause of a murder by the child, for without the parents the child would never have been begot.†   (source)
  • I think he trusted a little also to the energy which is begotten by circumstances—some feeling rushing warmly and making resolve easy, while debate in cool blood had only made it more difficult.†   (source)
  • If, however, his commercial imagination was dead, he felt no contempt for the surviving actualities begotten by it.†   (source)
  • And the heroism of the Servians and Montenegrins struggling for a great cause begot in the whole people a longing to help their brothers not in word but in deed.†   (source)
  • A good king was that, By whom then thereafter a son was begotten, A youngling in garth, whom the great God sent thither To foster the folk; and their crime-need he felt The load that lay on them while lordless they lived For a long while and long.†   (source)
  • Already there seemed a tacit understanding between them and the new driver, who had performed his part calmly, and with the confidence which always begets confidence.†   (source)
  • She were rewarded by the Agricultural Society for having begot the greatest number of healthy children without parish assistance, and other virtuous marvels.†   (source)
  • O sister, sister, thy first-begotten, The hands that cling and the feet that follow, The voice of the child's blood crying yet, WHO HATH REMEMBERED ME?†   (source)
  • Few are the beings who can ever hope to attain to that state of rational and independent conviction which true knowledge can beget in defiance of the attacks of doubt.†   (source)
  • Why am I bound to love him simply for begetting me when he has cared nothing for me all my life after?'†   (source)
  • My brother was begotten in his image.†   (source)
  • In his truthful simple soul, not even the growing greed and worship of gold could beget any vice directly injurious to others.†   (source)
  • We are stillborn, and for generations past have been begotten, not by living fathers, and that suits us better and better.†   (source)
  • It creates capital, i.e., that kind of property which exploits wage-labour, and which cannot increase except upon condition of begetting a new supply of wage-labour for fresh exploitation.†   (source)
  • Old provincial society had its share of this subtle movement: had not only its striking downfalls, its brilliant young professional dandies who ended by living up an entry with a drab and six children for their establishment, but also those less marked vicissitudes which are constantly shifting the boundaries of social intercourse, and begetting new consciousness of interdependence.†   (source)
  • …and so, when such shall in the darkness of his mind encounter these golden phrases of high mystery, these shut-up-shops, and draw-the-game, and bank-the-fires, it is but by the grace of God that he burst not for envy of the mind that can beget, and tongue that can deliver so great and mellow-sounding miracles of speech, and if there do ensue confusion in that humbler mind, and failure to divine the meanings of these wonders, then if so be this miscomprehension is not vain but sooth…†   (source)
  • If you are going to ask to be paid for the pleasure of creation, which is what excellence in work means, the next thing we shall hear of will be a bill sent in for the begetting of children.†   (source)
  • Suggestions beget suggestions; so he remembered suddenly his own great indebtedness to the man; the time he himself was in the hands of a Roman guard going, as was supposed, to a death as certain and almost as terrible as this one of the cross; the cooling drink he had at the well by Nazareth, and the divine expression of the face of him who gave it; the later goodness, the miracle of Palm-Sunday; and with these recollections, the thought of his present powerlessness to give back help…†   (source)
  • Henchard's chiding, by begetting in her a nervous fear of doing anything definable as unladylike, had operated thus curiously in keeping them unknown to each other at a critical moment.†   (source)
  • Democracy does not confer the most skilful kind of government upon the people, but it produces that which the most skilful governments are frequently unable to awaken, namely, an all-pervading and restless activity, a superabundant force, and an energy which is inseparable from it, and which may, under favorable circumstances, beget the most amazing benefits.†   (source)
  • It may readily be perceived that a method of this kind must insensibly beget a tendency to general ideas in the human mind.†   (source)
  • He belonged to that great school of surgery begotten of Bichat, to that generation, now extinct, of philosophical practitioners, who, loving their art with a fanatical love, exercised it with enthusiasm and wisdom.†   (source)
  • He loved the guineas best, but he would not change the silver—the crowns and half-crowns that were his own earnings, begotten by his labour; he loved them all.†   (source)
  • As for the sons and the daughters they beget, why, those sons and daughters must take care of themselves; at least, with only the maternal help.†   (source)
  • The proper object therefore of our most strenuous resistance, is far less either anarchy or despotism than the apathy which may almost indifferently beget either the one or the other.†   (source)
  • …time of which I am telling, things looked so threatening, and to the workmen at least the necessity of their dealing with the fast-gathering trouble which the labour-struggle had brought about, was so clear, that the conditions of the times had begot a deep seriousness amongst all reasonable people; a determination which put aside all non-essentials, and which to thinking men was ominous of the swiftly-approaching change: such an element was too dangerous for mere traitors and…†   (source)
  • The conventional answer to this question is: 'He begot you, and you are his flesh and blood, and therefore you are bound to love him.'†   (source)
  • …sin done through persuasion of his helpmeet, she being wrought upon and bewrayed by the beguilements of the great enemy of man, that serpent hight Satan, aforetime consecrated and set apart unto that evil work by overmastering spite and envy begotten in his heart through fell ambitions that did blight and mildew a nature erst so white and pure whenso it hove with the shining multitudes its brethren-born in glade and shade of that fair heaven wherein all such as native be to that rich…†   (source)
  • Elizabeth, encumbered with no recollections as her mother was, regarded him with nothing more than the keen curiosity and interest which the discovery of such unexpected social standing in the long-sought relative naturally begot.†   (source)
  • Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy!†   (source)
  • Some are the result of slow, minute, and conscientious labor of the mind, and these extend the sphere of human knowledge; others spring up at once from the first rapid exercise of the wits, and beget none but very superficial and very uncertain notions.†   (source)
  • The youth involuntarily reflects: 'But did he love me when he begot me?' he asks, wondering more and more.†   (source)
  • 'Was it for my sake he begot me?†   (source)
  • This is more particularly true of democratic revolutions, which stir up all the classes of which a people is composed, and beget, at the same time, inordinate ambition in the breast of every member of the community.†   (source)
  • He called it the SLEET'S CROW'S-NEST, in honour of himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget.†   (source)
  • Equality begets in man the desire of judging of everything for himself: it gives him, in all things, a taste for the tangible and the real, a contempt for tradition and for forms.†   (source)
  • And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow—a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree.†   (source)
  • No, let us prove that the progress of the last few years has touched even us, and let us say plainly, the father is not merely he who begets the child, but he who begets it and does his duty by it.†   (source)
  • Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of a former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like.†   (source)
  • For the principle of equality begets two tendencies; the one leads men straight to independence, and may suddenly drive them into anarchy; the other conducts them by a longer, more secret, but more certain road, to servitude.†   (source)
  • "Gentlemen of the jury, you remember that awful night of which so much has been said to-day, when the son got over the fence and stood face to face with the enemy and persecutor who had begotten him.†   (source)
  • "Oh, of course, there is the other meaning, there is the other interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that any father, even though he be a monster, even though he be the enemy of his children, still remains my father simply because he begot me.†   (source)
  • …prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the…†   (source)
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