Use "beset" in a sentence

1. She was quite unlike her mother, and although ravaged by the same hormonal imbalances and certain confusions that beset Alan, she tried hard not to allow herself to be brow beaten by her mother’s general attitudes and specific goals, although her mother sought to make her daughter complicit in her disapproval of her step-son as a way of protecting both of their interests

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2. the same hormonal imbalances and certain confusions that beset

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3. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry, and deeds still to be done; of broad meadows, and cattle browsing in them, raked by sun and wind; of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees; and of the comforting clink of dishes set down on the table at Toad Hall, and the scrape of chair-legs on the floor as everyone pulled himself close up to the table

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4. beset by devils?’ he said angrily

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5. bent and beset with arthritis in most joints, by the looks

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6. You beset me with a string of hard luck stories so unbelievable, not even the The Maiden’s Odyssey

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7. “You…you really knew him…” She felt the painful twinge suddenly beset her eyes, and she cleared her throat in an effort to stave it off

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8. Another chill beset him

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9. Little shivers of contented amazement beset her as the revelation captivated her mind

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10. They all wanted to share in the revolt against the evil and wrong doings that had beset their land

11. It was beset with dilapidated houses that looked like they were past their best days

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12. This struggling, but amazingly successful church had been continually beset by schisms as subsets of it dropped off during the bad times, only to be conditionally allowed back during the good times

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13. beset with unfulfillable conditions

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14. 22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, note, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him

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15. 5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about on me by night, and thought to have killed me, and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead

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16. Despite this whole mess that had beset him, Tony decided to dedicate

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17. He had become convinced that Socialism was the “farce” that James Madison had warned would beset a people should information necessary for self-governance be withheld

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18. He possessed knowledge of how to stop winter itching and fevers that beset babies and children, and more

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19. It is most fortunate for us that Joshua promised that we could have eventual victory over the obstacles in life which so easily beset us

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20. and have taken deep root therein, not only so beset men’s minds that truth can

21. alone with only two quid and a Tube pass, beset by Jel y Babies, when…

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22. The State has been beset by the Lykanthros for some time

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23. They stayed in their forest a thousand years and a single night beset them not

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24. entered upon the stream he is safe for ever; but although that is so, it is still possible for him to delay his progress to a most serious extent, if he yields to any of the temptations that still beset his path

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25. The yielding to temptations that beset,

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26. Seeing her advance towards him, beset by doubts, he looked the other way

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27. As Suresh found her pensive at the dining table, he was beset with anxiety and enquired with concern

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28. that they would be beset

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29. and the Hebrews were beset with fear,

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30. It requires the lure of a great ideal to drive man on in the pursuit of a goal which is beset with difficult material problems and manifold intellectual hazards

31. I think that you are beset by problems, probably centering on

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32. Education is beset by fads

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33. It’s only unfortunate that what beset me over the last few days is what brought me on this visit

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34. Even those planes, while excellent for strafing missions, have a limited bomb-carrying capacity and are beset by a chronic lack of spare parts and a weak logistical support system

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35. of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him

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36. individuals representing not each other or the common good, but only the interests of their respective countries, is naturally beset by severe bias and selfishness that hinders mutual assistance

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37. I beset with traumas and plight

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38. Because we are beset with desire and the possibility of its gratification we can no longer see that there could be something else much more important to develop and address in our

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39. A few setbacks had already beset us, but then again that was what adventuring was all about, I cheerily told Mark what he already knew

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40. Are you troubled or beset with peculiar infirmities?�Fear not: there is no evil spirit that Jesus cannot cast out,�there is no disease of soul that He cannot heal

41. It seemed as if everyone in the room held their breaths as they waited for some evil to beset them

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42. “I’ll play my part in my village with what is left of my money; besides as life there is vitiated by caste prejudices and beset by religious superstitions, I shall try to open the village minds to rational thinking

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43. Whatever, as Pakistan became an Islamic nation for the Musalmans, India remained a habitat of varied interest groups the Musalmans included! While the Indian political classes were beset with a sense of loss that partition brought in, in its wake, the Hindu intellectuals were upset by the age-old caste guilt that the reform movement occasioned in their collective consciousness

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44. and inert when they are beset by spiritual ignornace

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45. impossible to traverse without action and it is beset with more obstacles

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46. [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him

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47. Let us remember that when we are beset by trials and we tend to start complaining about our afflictions, our stresses, let us ponder these questions: What am I made of? What kind of foundation have I built for myself and my family? What are really the essentials in our mortal existence? Each day of our lives, let us try to build our foundations on rocks

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48. In her college years, Jenny was beset with suitors with varying assets --- physical, intellectual, temporal wealth, and spiritual intensity

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49. "say: Tell me! Should His scourge fall upon you by night or by day, what punishment would the guilty hasten?": can you drive the affliction that shall beset you away from yourself in its hour? What have you prepared before it? Do you expect a good result there?! Shall you believe similarly to pharaoh?! What shall man avail of his returning at the moment of the doom?! The Almighty had sent you to this world under the aim that you render good deeds

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50. Suppose a being who should be neither man nor woman, a creature wholly removed from the temptations that beset either sex, a person who could look on with absolute indifference at all our various ways of wasting life, untouched by the ambitions of man, and unstirred by the longings of woman, what would such a being think of the popular notion against which other uneasy women besides Charlotte raise their voices, that the man should never be bothered by the cares of the house and the babies, but rather go his daily round of business or pleasure precisely as he did before he had his house and his babies? I love to have the details of life arranged with fastidious justice, all its little burdens distributed with an exact fairness among those who have to carry them; and I imagine that this being, who should be rather more than man and less than god, who should understand everything and care nothing, would call it wrong to allot a double weight to the strong merely because he is strong, and would call it right that he should have his exact share, and use the strength he has left over not in carrying the burden of some weak friend who, burdenless, is still of no account in life, but in praising God, going first, and showing the others the way

51. With that, he was beset by a fresh onslaught of questions

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52. He was conveying as guardedly as he could a proposal that if the District Attorney would consent to turn his back while the law stumbled in one of the numerous pitfalls that beset a criminal prosecution, the organization would deliver the goods, quietly pass the word along to knife its own man and allow Carton to be re-elected

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53. Skhanda sat still in unwavering awareness before being beset by verbal critics:

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54. There was something different about the giant now, something new—a feeling of confusion that had beset him recently

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55. at another his words are beset with the harshest severity:

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56. They are likely to be beset by health problems, the deaths of your loved ones, by loneliness and the feeling of uselessness

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57. Why wasn’t Fort Comfort just 35 miles away beset with the same afflictions and deaths and starvation and disease, and rebellion and intrigue and poisoning that the Jamestown Fort suffered? Because it had been built solely to stave off any possibility of attack by the Spanish

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58. Instead, our tools evolve while we are beset with the same recurring problems, the same mistakes, never learning from those mistakes, never finding true happiness, true love, true joy, true peace, etc…

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59. This pulled them together even more as a tight-knit group of poor equals; beset by huge threatening outer forces

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60. So many curses and diseases and disasters beset them, that few of them ever came back

61. We refuse to see any direct connection between ourselves and any collective aspects of our technology, religion, or culture… we avoid seeing any connection between the countless separate things, issues and problems that beset us

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62. Why? Because they were all beset with guilt

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63. Their undead reaction and answer to the slow, inexorable demise of these things called houses of worship and slaughter: worship and death: their combined slaughtering/worshiping/sacrificing rituals of all the fucking ancient temples, their reaction to the demise of the ancient temple cultures of the ancient world, the ancient slaughter-sacrifice-worship mentality/custom/religion/cultures… was to split them all apart into separate institutions: all seemingly having nothing to do with the others: the separation of church and state, the splintering/fragmenting/segmenting of human society into billions of unconnected bits in order to slow down the increasing intelligence of living humans who found themselves trapped… born into a system so insane and so meaningless and unexplainable, and so evil: they didn’t even know where to start analyzing the problems they were beset with: much less find any solutions

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64. finds itself beset by constant disaster

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65. governments are beset by scandals and criminal investigations, with even greater revelations now

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66. We see our world still beset by religious strife and political

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67. world is still beset by the very same evils that have always characterized the Vatican

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68. Before he could recover from the first shock he was beset by another

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69. was beset by heat, high winds and wildfires

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70. The doctrine that our eternal life is in the Christ will, as the experience of many now attests, corroborate that faith which 'conquers the world’—a faith which, rooted in stable conviction, will not forsake men in difficulties, will seem not less true when beset with temptation than when the heart is 'lifted up in the ways of the Lord;’ not less true when we look upon the thoughtless crowds of great cities, or the brazen face of apostate Christendom, than when we muse in secret, or gaze on the sweet countenance of Nature

71. Justice held her ground, undisturbed and unassailed by the efforts of favour and of interest, that now so much impair, pervert, and beset her

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72. Then he tried an opera, for nothing seemed impossible in the beginning, but here again unforeseen difficulties beset him

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73. Consider and reconsider, con and con over again the advices and the instructions I gave thee before thy departure hence to thy government, and thou wilt see that in them, if thou dost follow them, thou hast a help at hand that will lighten for thee the troubles and difficulties that beset governors at every step

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74. He has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions and distractions, even as the State which he resembles: and surely the resemblance holds?

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75. Every one, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes' theory of pressure and impulsion

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76. Munro had again sunk into that sort of apathy which had beset him since his late overwhelming misfortunes, and from which he was apparently to be roused only by some new and powerful excitement

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77. "You have not every reason to say so of the rest of his people," said Estella, nodding at me with an expression of face that was at once grave and rallying, "for they beset Miss Havisham with reports and insinuations to your disadvantage

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78. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry, and deeds still to be done; of broad meadows, and cattle browsing in them, raked by sun and wind; of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snapdragon beset by bees; and of the comforting clink of dishes set down on the table at Toad Hall, and the scrape of chair-legs on the floor as every one pulled himself close up to his work

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79. You have found something of the truth of these testimonies upon you already, and more will immediately follow; for now, as you see, you are almost out of this wilderness, and therefore you will soon come into a town that you will by and by see before you; and in that town you will be hardly beset with enemies, who will strain

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80. The confused and intimate impressions of universal dissolution which beset a subjective nature at any strong check to its ruling passion had a bitterness approaching that of death itself

81. The house of the Senor Administrador was beset by spies, no doubt

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82. The tinkling drip, drip of the filter had ceased, the lamp upstairs had burnt itself out, and the night beset Giorgio Viola and his dead wife with its obscurity and silence that seemed invincible till the Capataz de Cargadores, returning from the dead, put them to flight with the splutter and flare of a match

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83. He resolved not to give himself up to these people in Sulaco, who had beset him, unreal and terrible, like jibbering and obscene spectres

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84. That morning Aunt Pitty had reached the regretful decision that she had better kill the patriarch before he died of old age and pining for his harem which had long since been After Uncle Peter had wrung his neck, Aunt Pitty had been beset by conscience at the eaten

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85. He did admire Rosamond exceedingly; but that madness which had once beset him about Laure was not, he thought, likely to recur in relation to any other woman

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86. The pack were still pursuing Eugenie and her millions; but the hounds, more in number, lay better on the scent, and beset the prey more unitedly

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87. The Saumur people talk of her and of the Marquis de Froidfond, whose family are beginning to beset

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88. Whatever danger may beset it, the Road is our only way to the Ford

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89. The power of the Black Land grows and we are hard beset

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90. unwise and evil counsels that beset you! Is it yet too late? Despite the

91. As the day wore along and the sun dropped to its bed in the northwest (the darkness had come back and the fall nights were six hours long), the young bulls retraced their steps more and more reluctantly to the aid of their beset leader

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92. We cannot help thinking, too, that the average individual who opens a brokerage account with the idea of making conservative common-stock investments is likely to find himself beset by untoward influences in the direction of speculation and speculative losses; these temptations should be much less for the mutual-fund buyer

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93. O’Neil quickly pointed out that our methodology does not rely on breadth confirming new highs, and that Europe, beset with lagging “semi-socialist economies,” was not relevant

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94. When the associated technical evidence began showing up as climax runs turned into climax tops and heavy distribution began to beset the market, it simply added conviction to the conclusion that it was time to begin exiting the market in earnest

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95. Hedge fund clients of O’Neil’s were closing left and right, and some of the bigger client firms were beset by mutual fund timing scandals or swallowed up by larger financial entities

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96. As Alexandrian custom dictated, Wolfe touched his fingers first to the small inset statue of the household god Bes on one side of the doorway, and then to the goddess Beset on the other

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