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Example sentences for "bade him"

  • He bade him, too, turn his eyes upon the beauty of Dorothea and he would see that few if any could equal much less excel her; while to that beauty should be added her modesty and the surpassing love she bore him.

  • Sancho did as he bade him, and proceeded in the direction in which he thought he might find refuge without quitting the high road, which was there very much frequented.

  • Master Lindstrom returned while I was still considering this, and, observing the same precautions as before, I bade him join me.

  • I bade him good-morning in Dutch, and he answered as well as his astonishment would let him.

  • A drooping gray mustache covered his mouth, and that was almost all I made out before Sir Thomas, with some sharpness, bade him uncover.

  • When the king heard this, wonderment gat hold of him and his admiration for the Wazir redoubled; so he bade him hie to his home and return to him on the morrow, according to his custom.

  • When the king heard this from the Minister, he bade him go away, and he went.

  • When the king heard the Minister's story, it pleased him and he bade him hie to his home.

  • When the king heard the words of his Wazir, he wondered with the uttermost wonder and bade him retire to his lodging.

  • Browne thanked him; and, feeling that they had reached the end of the interview, bade him good-bye and passed through the shop out into the street once more.

  • Reaching Park Lane, he rang for his valet, and when that somewhat stolid individual put in an appearance, bade him pack a few necessaries and be ready to start for the Continent at once.

  • Then, refusing to allow him to accompany her any farther, she held out her hand and bade him good-bye.

  • And within a while he overtook Sir Tristram, and then he bade him, Turn, false traitor knight.

  • And then Sir Launcelot after meat bade him come to his chamber, and there he should have meat and drink enough.

  • He then arose and went, with all who were present, to a plain where there was good ground for running on, and calling a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi.

  • But Telemachus spoke up for him, and, merely to gratify the old man, bade him try.

  • I thought it best not to risk so inopportune and fatal a calamity, so I bade him go away and come again next night, by which time I hoped to have been able to think out a plan that offered reasonable prospects of success.

  • Uncle Moses coming up with me, I bade him lead me at once to Mr. Wilkins' house.

  • He told me five hundred dollars, and I bade him go to Noah and promise that the money should be his as soon as I got back to Spanish Town.

  • So I asked him, whether, if I resolved to defend him, he would defend me, and stand by me, and do just as I bade him?

  • But that which astonished him most was, to know how I had killed the other Indian so far off; so pointing to him, he made signs to me to let him go to him: so I bade him go, as well as I could.

  • But Telemachus spoke up for him, and merely to gratify the old man, bade him try.

  • When Perseus was grown up, Polydectes, king of that country, wishing to send Perseus to his death, bade him go in quest of the head of Medusa.

  • He then arose and went with all who were present to a plain where there was good ground for running on, and calling a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi.

  • This epistle finished and written in the crabbed disguised penmanship it was part of my business to effect, I folded, sealed and addressed it, and summoning Vincenzo, bade him post it immediately.

  • I bade him "Good day" in an indifferent tone, but he made me no answer I walked slowly away.

  • I held open the door of my room as he passed out, carrying the box of jewels for my wife, and as I bade him a brief adieu, the well-worn story of Tristram and Kind Mark came to my mind.

  • He was seated in the outer entrance hall; I bade him follow me into my private salon.

  • I walked to meet it; the coachman seeing me drew up instantly, I bade him take me to the Convento dell'Annunziata, and entering the carriage, I was driven rapidly away.

  • When the king heard the vizier's story, it pleased him and he bade him go to his house.

  • When the king heard his vizier's words, he marvelled with the utmost wonderment and bade him retire to his lodging.

  • When the king heard this from the vizier, he bade him go away [and he withdrew to his house].

  • Then we fell again to playing and I beat him; so I bade him go to the kitchen and swive the foulest and sorriest wench of the wenches thereof.

  • So he went away, as he bade him, and ate.

  • In vain I adjured him not to meet troubles halfway; or, pointing to the pallet which he occupied at the foot of my couch, bade him, if he could not devise a way of escape, at least to let the matter rest until morning.

  • Bruhl lay ill of the plague, and like to die; and I bade him form a camp in the wood below, and, sending for food to the house where we had slept the night before, make mademoiselle as comfortable as circumstances permitted.

  • My face being as smooth as a girl's, the barber sneered, but I bade him lather me deep and have a care to follow grain.

  • And in a low voice I bade him go to the devil at his convenience.

  • After a while I bade him good-night, and left him to go below to my cabin.

  • When we had chatted for upwards of an hour I bade him good-night, and went below to my cabin to fall asleep and dream that Fernandez had seized the boat and was going to make me walk the plank at daylight.

  • After that, having promised to call upon him on the day mentioned, I bade him good-bye, and returned to my own home.

  • Here I bade him good-night, and he continued his walk.

  • The priest laughingly assented, and taught Wang a formula which he bade him recite.

  • The old man then provided him with food and wine, and spreading a volume of essays according to the old style before him, bade him study it most carefully.

  • The old woman was overjoyed, and inquiring where Lin lived, bade him go home and get a bridal chair, leaving his square behind him as a pledge of his good faith.

  • That is easy enough," replied the king, and put into his hands a thick letter, which he bade him give to the Governor, assuring him that this would prevent him from getting into any trouble.

  • There he bade him remain, and in a little while he returned with some deer's flesh, which he gave the merchant to eat, saying at the same time that his own father was a Chiao-chou man.

  • To my great joy he brought the axe of the establishment, and I bade him farewell.

  • I bade him take a hack at Barnard's, where they were all up waiting for the assembly to be done at Papanti's.

  • She charged him not to forget her box of raisins when he came back, and to ask at the express if anything came up from town, bade him good-by, and turned back into the house, not wholly dissatisfied to be almost alone.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bade adieu; bade farewell; bade good; bade him; bade them; brave people; built upon; case they; eternal salvation; fixed stars; good angel; good cousin; heat units; holy people; judgment against; little when; must love; nearly related; never felt; relations between; silver knife; social compact; stand three; stern tone; summer pelage; would remark