Thomas Wintour begged to be hanged for himself and his brother, so that his brother might be spared.

Polynices begged an army from King Adrastus for recovering his father ’ s kingdom from his brother Eteocles.

During the regency, Austrasians begged for a king of their own and sometime between 660 and 662, the Neustrians gave Austrasia to another son of Clovis II, Chlothar's brother Childeric II.

General Aleksei Brusilov, Michael's commander on the south-eastern front, begged him to tell the Tsar of " the need for immediate and drastic reforms ", but Michael warned him, " I have no influence ... My brother has time and time again had warnings and entreaties of this kind from every quarter.

Aredhel begged her brother to forgive Eöl, as she still loved him despite not wanting to live with him.

Kelly, believing a baby would be the only thing that could save her marriage, begged her brother to get her a child.

She therefore begged her brother the sun to switch places with her, which he did.

Jake kicked through the car window to get to his brother and begged Johnny not to kill him.

This passage states that Esau, returning famished from the fields, begged Jacob to give him some of the stew that Jacob had just made.

Tate remained in the house and begged for her child's life, pleading that the group abduct Tate and allow her to give birth before murdering her.

Chariclo begged Athena to give him sight back, but the goddess could not undo her curse.

In the past when Arawn had battled and had struck Hafgan nearly to his death, Hafgan had begged him to give another stroke, and when Arawn had done so, Hafgan recovered from his injuries and was in good health for battle again the next day.

The dwarves begged to be let free and promised to give him magic mead as a " thank you " for saving them.

She begged for her brothers to be fair and give her an equal share of the property, but they refused.

The human townspeople were amazed and grateful, and the local Rakshasas begged for mercy, which Bhima granted them on the condition that they give up cannibalism.

While the other bosses wanted to kill Siegel, Lansky begged them to give his friend a second chance.

He later remarked, " I was never so devout as when I was at work on The Creation ; I fell on my knees each day and begged God to give me the strength to finish the work.

He traded away both Silas and Westphal because they wanted salary increases that would have made them higher earners than the best player on the Celtics ( Cowens ), which was not acceptable to Auerbach, even though Cowens personally begged him to give Silas a new deal.

They begged Pedro de Alvarado to give them his permission, so Spaniards wouldn't think that they planned to kill them.

That spring, Brooke begged Leo du Pres to pretend to be interested in the dying Laura in order to give Laura motivation to fight for her life.

His friend supposedly begged: " The State must give an answer to the Mafia, and you are one of the top authorities in it !".

King Fródi the Active of Denmark, still a young man, learning of the charm, begged Froger to give him lessons in fighting.

Sihkandi's father, King Drupada, had begged the god Mahadeva to give him a son, to which Mahadeva replied: " Thou shalt have a child who will be a female and male.

At the end of the show he emotionally begged the Controller of BBC Radio to give him a job, " even if it's only on Digital Radio 8 " ( a fictional station ).

If they refused to do so, they were forced to listen to the screams of children being tortured while their parents begged them to give up the information.

In September 1980, talent coordinator Neil Levy received a telephone call from 19-year old Eddie Murphy, who had begged the producer to " give him a shot " on the show, but was rejected since " the black cast member had already been chosen.

Green " begged, cajoled, whined, and threatened " editor-in-chief Johnny Wilson to give him the opening for Associate Editor that arose for the magazine in 1996.

Zheng was extremely reluctant to give away that piece of land, and indeed his courtiers begged him to reject the proposal, but out of courtesy for his mother he agreed.

The King's councillors begged him to accept the offer or give a milder reply, but he refused and led his 30, 000-strong army deeper into Wallachia " without proper supplies or adequate reconnaissance ".

The canvas portrays the legend that the Empress Constantia had begged Pope Gregory I to give her relics of the body of Saints Peter and Paul, but the pope, not daring to disturb the remains of these saints, sent her a fragment of the linen which had enveloped the remains of Saint John the Evangelist.

" Don't give me the ball ," begged fullback Larry Csonka, the former Dolphins star.

They decided to kill it, but the snake begged for peace and pleaded with Allah to give her wings.

But, in departing, Lewis begged Breasted that there be no liquor in the apartment at the Grosvenor on his return, and he took with him the first thirty galleys of Elmer Gantry.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

Each time in, the unhappy pilot, pushing his luck, begged the postal officials that met him to find a safer landing place, preferably on the flat-topped hills across the Winooski River.

And you know you will always wonder all of your life whether it was because you wanted him so bad that you didn't get him, and you can feel nearly sorry enough to cry when you think of that other guy, the chump who begged you to marry him, the one with the plastered hair and the car he couldn't afford and the too-shiny shoes.

Fighting pleasure itself, he begged B'dikkat to check the records and to tell him how long he had been there.

The narrative goes on to state that when Judah ( on behalf of the other brothers ) begged Joseph not to enslave Benjamin and instead enslave him, since enslavement of Benjamin would break Jacob's heart.

He found the military situation so dire that he is said at first to have contemplated withdrawing the imperial capital to Carthage, but relented after the people of Constantinople begged him to stay.

According to Dante, the prisoners were slowly starved to death and before dying Ugolino's children begged him to eat their bodies.

Grey quotes Fuller as saying of the period before her success, " He ( Ed Wood ) begged me to marry him.

When his father's ring was sent to him, he begged that his father would show mercy to his mother, and that all his companions would plead with Henry to set her free.

His mother, Chariclo, begged her to undo her curse, but Athena could not ; she gave him prophecy instead.

According to Livy, Hannibal much later said that when he came upon his father and begged to go with him, Hamilcar agreed and demanded that he swear that as long as he lived he would never be a friend of Rome.

" But in spite of this, and though the plotters offered him a large sum of money from the Pope, as well as safe passage for his wife and children to come to him from England, in the end he declined to have anything further to do with their plans and begged pardon from Sir Robert Cecil and from the Queen.

When writing against Photius, he begged the emperor to send warships and soldiers to enable him to ward off the assaults of the Saracens.

Nichols begged him for more but Simon, who was touring constantly, told him he didn't have the time.

The Hawks were in awe of his wild, full-bore organ sound and often begged him to join.