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Meanings of ask favours in English

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Usage of ask favours in English
1
Let this be a warning to us, never to ask favours of anybody.
Hard Cash
2
Remember, you are not in a position to ask favours.
The Valley of the Giants
3
But I am too modest to ask favours for more than one or two.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1
4
Oh sir, I shall take care how I ever ask favours of you again!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
5
I do not command in the Mediterranean, and I'll not ask favours even of Nelson.
Colors Aloft!
6
It is not often that I ask favours.
The Lamp of Fate
7
I do not choose to ask favours of anybody if they will not give them readily.
The Lord of Dynevor: A Tale of the Times of Edward the First
8
I do not know how to ask favours.
A Man's Woman
9
He was too proud to ask favours, where he felt he had a claim to justice.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales
10
I haven't come here to ask favours.
The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy
11
Put me anywhere on the line of the old survey, and I will ask favours of no one.
Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony
12
No need to ask favours.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement
13
No, I never ask favours.
The Keeper of the Door
14
I am a proud woman, Mr. Heath, and I do not usually ask favours, yet I ask you now-
The Pointing Man / A Burmese Mystery
15
He had been treated merely as a scapegrace debtor who had come to ask favours from an old friend.
The Man
16
Because to pray for rain is the same thing as asking a favour, and the ancients did not lightly ask favours.
Religions of Ancient China
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