Let this be a warning to us, never to ask favours of anybody.

Remember, you are not in a position to ask favours.

But I am too modest to ask favours for more than one or two.

Oh sir, I shall take care how I ever ask favours of you again!

I do not command in the Mediterranean, and I'll not ask favours even of Nelson.

It is not often that I ask favours.

I do not choose to ask favours of anybody if they will not give them readily.

I do not know how to ask favours.

He was too proud to ask favours, where he felt he had a claim to justice.

I haven't come here to ask favours.

Put me anywhere on the line of the old survey, and I will ask favours of no one.

No need to ask favours.

No, I never ask favours.

I am a proud woman, Mr. Heath, and I do not usually ask favours, yet I ask you now-

He had been treated merely as a scapegrace debtor who had come to ask favours from an old friend.

Because to pray for rain is the same thing as asking a favour, and the ancients did not lightly ask favours.