The law said that if a man died without offspring his brother was to take the widow and
beget children so that the dead man's name might not «be blotted out in Israel».
Not exact matches
Over a century ago in England Samuel Wilberforce was
so discouraged that for a time he avoided marriage, not wanting to
beget children, «hostages to fortune,» he said, in
so ill a world.
Just as violence
begets violence,
so angry parents tend to result in angry
children, and parents who ridicule tend to produce sarcastic
children, and critical parents tend to generate negative
children, and on and on.