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Example sentences for "behove"

Lexicographically close words:
behooved; behooves; behooveth; behoueth; behould; behoved; behoves; behoveth; behung; behynd
  1. Here too it will behove a just Historian gratefully to say that Mr. Rokewood, Jocelin's Editor, has done his editorial function well.

  2. It will behove thee to say, for what service, or on what ground, thou exactest those five shillings.

  3. Chapter V Aristocracy of Talent When an individual is miserable, what does it most of all behove him to do?

  4. Q "How cloth it behove him to do for his subjects' weal?

  5. Neither cloth it behove me to entrust myself to thee; and 'tis said, 'Enmity of kind, as the enemy himself groweth weaker groweth stronger.

  6. It doth not behove thee, however, O good friend, to take me for what I am not.

  7. Or, if it be thy nature, in consequence of which thou art thus afflicted, how is it that it does not behove thee to recollect the sight thou sawest before, viz.

  8. It would not behove thee, O Brahmana, to cast off thy life even if any blame, founded on fact and capable of bringing about thy dismissal from caste, attached to thee!

  9. It will then behove thee, after hearing me, to accomplish that promise.

  10. Why does it not behove thee to recollect our expulsion from the (Kuru) city and our exile (into the woods) dressed in deerskins, as also our living in the great forests?

  11. Afflicted by Time, it does not behove thee to grieve.

  12. For these reasons, O son of Kunti, it does not behove thee to grieve for thy (slain) kinsfolk.

  13. It does not behove thee to say what is untrue.

  14. And if I would follow myself and these rules, it will behove me not to make so much of this Biography; but once for all, like a moderate man, to let it sound out.

  15. She had pledged herself not to be shaken from her troth by anything, by any person; and it would behove her to be true to this pledge.

  16. Seeing how he was ill-used, he meditated revenge; but not the less did it behove him to make some effort to attract attention.

  17. What, in such case, would it behove him to do?

  18. Wherefore it will behove us also, brethren, to follow such examples as these; for it is written, Hold fast to such as are holy; for they that do so shall be sanctified.

  19. Seeing then these things are manifest unto us, it will behove us to take care that looking into the depths of the divine knowledge, we do all things in order, whatsoever our Lord has commanded us to do.

  20. But still by how much the more he seems to be above others, by reason of these things, by so much the more will it behove him to be humble-minded; and to seek what is profitable to all men, and not his own advantage.

  21. It will therefore behove you with all sincerity, to obey your bishop; in honour of him whose pleasure it is that ye should do so.

  22. Wherefore, it will behove us, as he has spoken, to come more holily, and nearer to his altar.

  23. Exactly because the majority is still so hopelessly wasteful and mischievous, does it behove the minority not merely to work to some profit, but to play without damage.

  24. It will behove me not to play the laggard as I go thither.

  25. And were it not so, yet it will behove me to do it even against my will, and set aside all my own business.

  26. Forthwith he bids the queen that she come and speak to him and keep not her traitors; for it will behove her to give them up or he will take them against her will.

  27. Thus doth it behove him who hath turned his face to Mine, hath entered beneath the shadow of My loving-kindness and received My verses which have pervaded the whole world.

  28. Let no one be content with mere hearing; rather doth it behove everyone to ponder that which this Wronged One hath revealed.

  29. Or did it behove him, a practical man like him, a man so determined to battle with the world as he had determined, did it behove such a one as he to be more honest than his neighbours?

  30. When an individual is miserable, what does it most of all behove him to do?

  31. He knew that the moments of silence as they passed by told his secret to the two women before him,--that secret which it would now behove him to conceal from all the world.

  32. Yet not a fool or a clown, but always a gentleman in manners, and one who read such things as behove a country gentleman, and scrupulous as to the point of honour.

  33. If persecutions arise, it may behove me and mine to seek again that land beyond the seas whither my fathers fled for the sake of religious liberty.

  34. In all ways, it behoved men to quit simulacra and return to fact; cost what it might, that did behove to be done.

  35. Now as heretofore it will behove the Editor of these pages, were it never so unsuccessfully, to do his endeavour.

  36. If you really intend to do what you have promised, it will behove you to make a full and complete declaration of the whole facts, and sign them before two or three persons, previous to entering upon this undertaking.

  37. You have it in your power, and certainly it is you that behove to do it; even granting that the stakes for which we fought were equal, the task of redemption and the blame would rest solely with you.

  38. They, too, were both mistaken in the real cause; but of that it does not behove to speak at present.

  39. But we shall first refresh us, and assemble our warriors, make ready our weapons, for well they behove us (we shall need them).

  40. Now thee behoveth might, now weapons behove thee to defend thy country.

  41. That, and the other observances of it, are incumbent, and behove to be kept; and as they ought to be regarded, they ought to be promised in covenant.

  42. The obligation of such, therefore, even as those of the covenants specified, behove to continue.

  43. The relations of the persons of the ever-blessed Trinity in Unity, confederated in the everlasting Covenant for the salvation of man, behove to be maintained.

  44. Hence, also, the law of God is independent of his creatures, though made known on their account; but the operation of their attributes behove to be regulated according to that law.

  45. It does not behove a master of hounds to seek counsel in difficulty from anyone.

  46. But he remembered that it would behove him to take what steps might be possible for tracing the murderer.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    behoves thee; behoveth thee