I beg of you to prevent, in these Youngsters, this compendious Way to Wisdom, which costs other People so much Time and Pains, and you will oblige Your humble Servant.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I thought better of you than that, Doctor.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Ah, don’t be angry, I beg of you, that would be useless; you know what is agreed upon between you, Athos and me.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

I beg of you to come here to me on the island of Cozumel.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

" "You had better ask her," Machiavel continued, "or make the best of your time now.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

What I beg of you, therefore, my dear, is, that you would go in the chariot to Sir Simon's, the sooner in the day the better, because you will be diverted with the company, who all so much admire you; and I hope to join you there by your tea-time in the afternoon, which will be better than going home, and returning with you, as it will be six miles difference to me; and I know the good company will excuse my dress, on the occasion.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

So if you do not wish to oblige me by taking me, I must beg of you to tell the ambassador that I am ill.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I beg of you to know me, good my lord, T' accept my grief, and whilst this poor wealth lasts To entertain me as your steward still.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To her public bounty have I come, which yet I humbly beg of you to grant me.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

he cried; "I thought better of you than that, laird!
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

By veraye reason I may give judgement, That it is guyse of you everychone To fayne you sicke wyth subtyll argument, Whan to your lady ye list to make your mone: But of you true is there fewe or none.
— from The Pastime of Pleasure: An Allegorical Poem by Stephen Hawes

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.
— from 'Round the Year in Myth and Song by Florence Holbrook

Have you not heard my granddaughter’s words—that it is only because of you that she is about to undertake this crazy journey?
— from Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

what became of you two?
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

From under the shelter of a friendly pine I look out upon a long stretch of water, two miles and more, to a sloping beach of a few yards in width, and then a belt of young trees growing back to a rugged mountain gorge.
— from With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters by Lewis B. France

Ninth row —one stitch dark blue; one yellow; three black; one yellow; two black; two yellow; two black; two yellow; two black; one yellow; two blue; one yellow; two black; two blue; two black; two yellow; two black; one yellow; three black; one yellow; two blue.—Repeat.
— from My Crochet Sampler by Miss (F.) Lambert

If you like, therefore, you can go and take some rest in the meanwhile; but order yourself to be called at the end of five hours."
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He was first discovered by one y t accidentally
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

You won't have to deal with me, you'll have to answer to the government, and the inspectors will be on your trail inside of twenty-four hours!
— from Jack of the Pony Express; Or, The Young Rider of the Mountain Trails by Frank V. Webster