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Fearing he might be forced, Lear-like, to beg hospitality from his children, he sank 440 pounds into grain "tithes, " shares in farm output.
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It bears several royal inscriptions, the earliest being that of the Timurid ruler, Ulugh Beg, who ruled from 1447-1449.
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The easy 2km trek passes through a series of isolated caverns once home to 15th-century hermits, which beg to be howled from. (Doing so produces a short, rich echo).
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Finding herself among people wracked by poverty but bound by common struggles, Joan learned to beg with her baby from cars stuck in traffic and struggled to keep warm on rainy nights.
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Hardly scientific I grant, but it does beg the question whether, far from being a disadvantage, left handedness might in certain circumstances give you the edge.
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But their inevitable fallback strategy will likely be falling on one knee to beg Governor Brown to save them from an ever more invigorated progressive majority.
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"They would like to have some assurance they will get a return from the family assets and not have to beg the trustee for it, " says Pittsburgh trust lawyer Robert B.
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Scott Baxter, from homelessness charity Aberdeen Cyrenians, said many who beg are forced to do so because they have no other means of getting money.
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But from personal experience I can tell you that my girls beg and plead for Happy Meals all of the time.
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This and scores of other stories beg the question, then, who is benefiting primarily and most from the core activities of the financial industry?
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Even as senators, deputies and regional electors put their folded paper ballots into urns in the Chamber of Deputies, leaders ranging from Monti to ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi, were paying calls on Napolitano at the presidential palace to beg him to consider serving again.
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