God never expects children to behaveany better than they know how," replied mamma.
Frankie was very good the first day and the second day he came to dinner; but after that he did not behave as well.
Is this the way King Hudibras teaches his varlets to behave to poor people who are better than themselves?
Then I am quite sure that if you behave well, and show me the way to the Hot Swamp, he will reward you in a way that will make your heart dance with joy.
Upon this Captain Doran said I talked too much English; and if I did not behave myself well, and be quiet, he had a method on board to make me.
Scorpion, you may sit in my lap if you like to behave yourself, sir.
But you must behave well, David," responded Flower, "or the English nation will fancy we are not civilized.
He is honest and respectable; and in spite of all that has come and gone would, I think, behave well to a woman when she was once his wife.
She declared to her aunt, in Lizzie's presence, without a vestige of a smile, that it might be well to see how a jilt could behave herself, so as to do her work of jilting in any noble fashion.
Lizzie had certainly behaved very badly to her aunt;--about as badly as a young woman could behave to an old woman.
Madame Goesler had hitherto behaved very well;--would probably continue to behave well.
Mr. Greystock would no doubt behave very badly in not doing so;--but then men do so often behave very badly!
Lady Eustace," he said, "I am most anxious not to behavebadly in this matter.
There was not a man in London less willing to behavebadly to a young woman than Lord Fawn; or one who would more diligently struggle to get back to the right path, if convinced that he was astray.
They were not going tobehave like a couple of geese, he hoped.
But I believe you are more of an honest man than tobehave so much like a pirate.
However, he would see what the lad was fit for, and bind him apprentice to some honest tradesman or other, provided he would behave for the future as became him.
She would never tell, no, not even Tessa; but how could she behave towards him as if she did not know?
O, nightingale, what's the use; You bird of beauty and love, Why behave like a goose?
I wish you would behave naturally, as you always used to do.
It might have been better to behave as though we had never met, and to let your son introduce you to me as he introduced you to Clare.
They would behave as though the place belonged to them, so long as they remained; they would get all the attention of the proprietor and of the servants for the time being; and they would make everybody feel shabby and poor.
You can behave so nicely if you like, and the Princess was saying at the bazaar this afternoon what a dear boy you were.
And the effort to behave decently has a great reward, which is decent behaviour.
But I shall keep it as a hold over you, so you must behave nicely.
My former gentlemen and lady colleagues sit around and behaveas though they were criminals.
That you behavelike a school boy who is coining home for his vacation.
The English have taken our city by force, so long as they behave themselves as conquerors we must look upon them as enemies.
The Senor Gordon at any rate knew how to behave himself.
If you behave yourselves bravely a reward shall not be wanting to each one of you; to any two of you who may be specially recommended to me by Don Marcelino, I will give freedom on your return.
It was so nice of Jill, she reflected, to behave exactly like a princess, and to sit at the window of her lonely turret making tapestry, to while away the time until her prince should come thundering over the drawbridge below.
You're so badly brought up that you don't know how to behave in a civilised house.
Perhaps, if every one leaves her alone she'll learn how to behave like other people.
And young ladies may behave in a manner which would cost a servant her place.
Now, being in a state of nervous excitement, how are we to expect that she should behave as she might otherwise have behaved to any of the people about her?
There was no knowing how a man ought to behave to such a daughter.
What am I to think of it, and in what way would you have me behave to you?
Unless you can behave yourself with more discretion, Mr Vavasor, you must leave the room," said Mr Grey.
Mr Fitzgerald, let me ask you to leave me alone, and to behave to me with generosity.
Jeannette, don't you let Mr Cheesacre turn your head; and mind you behave yourself and be useful.
To act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with meanness and servility; to crouch.
I am glad you are pleased with my behaviour; but in reality I did notbehave well: I mean according to your lights.
The church-fanatic says if all churches will merge with his organization, none of them will have to try to behave again.
Yet when the photoplay chooses to behave it can reproduce a race far more joyously than the stage.
At last the elders of the village held a council to see if they could not think of some plan to make their children behave better.
The old people often talked to them and did their best to make them behave better, but it did no good.
I expect she will and when she comes I want you to behave yourself and don't roll up your eyes at her and giggle at her and make ugly speeches.
Why don't you answer me; what makes you behave so bad?
She would behave herself, as you call it," says the professor angrily, "any and every where.
This being one of the show places of the city, the inhabitants are used to visitors, but they often rob and sometimes behave very badly to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
