Word: beggings
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...hoped for Utopia; now, in a chastened mood, we can at best hope for a reprieve; pray for time and play for time; for had the dinosaur learnt the art of prayer, the only sensible petition for him would have been to go down on his scaly knees and beg, 'Lord, give me another chance...
...slave at His Majesty's feet," he muttered. "I beg forgiveness for all the harm I have done. I was led astray. May heaven's curse fall upon those who deceived me." Replied the Sultan: "The past is forgotten. You will be judged by what you do in the future...
...they mock and tease; when we're 39, they're down on their knees," runs an old academy jingle. However talented and rebellious, aspirants to this particular Olympus must first appease the gods-in-being by eating a certain amount of literary humble pie. An applicant must beg for admission in terms as carefully prescribed as an ancient Hittite ritual; his friends must sedulously woo the Immortals in his behalf. "Is your poetry any good?" snapped a windy old Immortal at Victor Hugo when he was seeking entrance. "I have been told, sir," answered Hugo, "that...
...beg you," Cambodia's impetuous young King Norodom Sihanouk entreated his subjects in a surprise broadcast last March, "permit me to leave my gilded cage." With that, he turned over the monarchy's six-tiered parasol to his father, Suramarit. After 14 years on the throne, 32-year-old Sihanouk was convinced that, "If I ever lose this King job, maybe I can go to Hollywood. They like Oriental characters over there, don't they? Maybe I could be a Cambodian Charlie Chan...
...then orthodox, e.g., wrote his notable autobiography, Goodbye to All That, at the age of 33, tried to make both ends meet by running a small store out Oxford took a job as Professor of English literature at Egyptian University in Cairo. "Too weak to dig, too proud to beg, he found himself on the horns of a dilemma that afflicts most poets-"There's no money in poetry, but then, there's no poetry in money, either...