'Save yourself this agony/ the soldier begged. '

The soldier begs her to sing his favorite song.

Armed soldiers forced my taxi to a halt near the hotel and then begged for cigarettes.

Still, the psychological pain for a nation whose once invincible soldiers now routinely beg for food is hard to overstate.

"I implore pardon, Lord," the soldier begged, dropping to one knee.

But when the soldiers and his wife begged of him to let the soldiers go home, Xiang Yu sadly agreed.

We get many, many reports out of Kuwait that Iraqi soldiers are begging for food from Kuwaiti civilians; in many cases stealing it also.

The captured soldiers fell to their knees, and begged for mercy.

Russian soldiers routinely beg for their food in Chechnya.

Betly quickly begs Daniel to keep the soldiers away from her for the day so she will be safe until they leave.