14. beseech besought besought härdalt paluma, anuma (kelleltki midagi smb for smth) (beseeched) (beseeched) 15. beset beset beset sisse piirama; ründama, ahistama, peale suruma; tõkestama 16. bestride bestrode bestridden kaksiratsa istuma (millelgi); harkisjalu seisma (millegi kohal) 17. bet bet (betted) bet (betted) kihla vedama (mlgi peale) 18. betake betook betaken minema, siirduma, (millegi poole) pöörduma (to) 19
out for a trip to Italy necessitated by his liberal views, he quit his job and sailed in 1850 for California as a pioneer. The racy style of his first composition in English, "The First Vigilance Committee," drew favorable attention, and he determined to write. After some literary work, he began a history of Tudor England. Finding the available materials insufficient, he set out, late in his forties, for that great repository of documents for those years when Spain bestrode the world, the Archivio General at Simancas in northwest Spain. His letters home soon won him a stipend from England's Master of the Rolls to find, list, and summarize the state papers at Simancas that related to English history and to prepare a volume for the Spanish series of the endless Calendars of State Papers. He forgot his Tudor history. He arrived at Simancas in September, 1860, and established himself in a kind of hotel, the Parador della Luna, where he would do much of
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