Word: begot
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...Walkure. Wotan shivered in Walhalla, fearful of his enemies who possessed the ring. Therefore he dressed like a man and, suiting his behavior to the part, begot some descendants (The Race of the Walsungs) one of whom, he determined, should regain the ring...
...King James Bible, begot by the Renaissance and brought forth by Cranmer and Cromwell (not Oliver), and Queen Elizabeth's bishops and King James' savants, survives. Religion may improve it out of church, but Art will preserve it forever. On this point, all agree...
...joined a joyous sense of well-being. It was under the inspiring sky of that country, and in the midst of living models formed by the games of the palaestra and the exercises of the gymnasium and the stadium that the art of sculpture, full of the divine thought, begot the Apollo of Belvidere. The Greek idea, that body and mind work together and that it cannot be well with the one if it be ill with the other, might seem an axiom whose self-evidence could be questioned only in a fit of insane infatuation. Yet for ages...
...boding heart of Hell-begot...