When I wrote thus in 1877, it was not generally seen that though the father is not nourished by the dinners that the son eats, yet the son was fed when the father ate before he Begot him.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Ah, but the days whereon the sun rose To light love's wonder, and Begot In us the power of aspiration,- bless them and forget them not!
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
This was not needed since the consort actually Begot a bird.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills