beget
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It would seem as though humanity, viewing in long perspective its own experiences, had found them all at last fit subjects to "Beget the smiles that have no cruelty."
From Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Bancroft, Jessie Hubbell
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty— Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense.
From Modern English Books of Power by Fitch, George Hamlin
If to haue done the thing you gaue in charge, Beget your happinesse, be happy then, For it is done Rich.
From Richard III by Shakespeare, William
Beget sons that will think and act as he is capable of doing.
From The Prince of Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr
Mean-hearted coward, false and vile, Whose cruel soul delights in guile, Could Daśaratha, noblest king, Beget so mean and base a thing?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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