They confess themselves to be strangers, that had no establishments by law; and therefore they behoved to be passively subject, when in no capacity to resist; there was no more required of them.
The tide was a low neap, and if we wanted a passage dry-shod, it behoved us to wait for at least a week; but neither of us understood the philosophy of neap-tides at the period.
But the time at length came when his new benefactor had to quit his house in town for his seat in the country; and it behoved Jock to take temporary leave of Cromarty, and follow him.
Instead of stabbing James, however, he tried to bind the Royal hands with a garter, 'swearing he behoved to be bound.
The Secretaries of State, and the Chancellors, and the First Lords, selected from this or the other party, felt that the eyes of mankind were upon them, and that it behoved them to assume a virtue if they had it not.
Then he knew that it behoved him to set some altered course of life before him.
Lopez immediately perceived that it behoved him to be very much on the alert.
He felt that a grievous injury had been done him, and that it behovedhim to resent that injury,--even though it were against a woman.
And he knew that he was saturnine and silent, and that it behoved him as a leader of men to be genial and communicative,--listening to counsel even if he did not follow it, and at any rate appearing to have confidence in his colleagues.
There was the huge pile of magnificent buildings; and somebody, at any rate, had thought that it behoved a Duke of Omnium to live in such a palace.
He had not been circumspect, as it specially behoved a man to be surrounded by such difficulties as his.
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
He pointed out to me that itbehoved no young wife to be anywhere without her husband.
I thanked the King, as it behoved me to do, and he added, "Your brother shall be made a duke at once.
I therefore said no more than that it behoved me to see such captains as were about the King.
With these reasonings it behoved me to content myself.
Now it behoved him, that he crope in his skin into every corner, if peradventure there were any unresty wrench, (163) whereby he might yet once more betray Christ and all Christian people.
He wore it not for its rich ornaments, "but to save himself when it behoved him to suffer," and as a safeguard against sword or knife (ll.
I had no objections to go to the bush--I dreaded neither natives, nor snakes, nor bushrangers, but I behoved to make good wages.
But he said he would go and fetch a doctor, if one was to be had, and keep him in the house till he was needed, and for as long as she was in any peril; and with that she behoved to be contented.
This was too good a joke, as I told him, that he a Cabinet Minister, his colleague and sharing his responsibility, could not tell him his mind, and should ask me to tell Palmerston the truths it behoved him to know.
By this we learn that it behoved Christ to suffer and to be crucified and rise again on the third day, for the express purpose that repentance and remission of sins should be preached to all nations.
Having thus reached to a seat in the council, I discerned that it behoved me to act with circumspection, in order to gain a discreet dominion over the same, and to rule without being felt, which is the great mystery of policy.
So what pilfering they did, it behoved them to get done quickly.
But presently from behind their ranks a stone flew, and though it whizzed between the Empress and myself, and struck down a fisher, it showed that they had brought a new method into their attack, and it behoved us to take thought and meet it.
Zaemon I knew would be back again in his dwelling on the Sacred Mountain, shaken and breathless, even before I had found an end to his tracks in the snow, and it behoved me to join him there in the quickest possible time.
Coming to the place where he expected his coach, it was not there; so he behoved to return that same way, through a world of gazing people.
The old order of things had disappeared for ever, and it behoved any feudal leader who had ambition or necessities to be present and ready to assert himself ere the new order was definitely established.
It behoved that some weapons besides the eloquence of Azimoolah and the sign-manual of Dhoondoo Punth should be found, and found quickly.
By fair means, or, if need was, by the very foulest, it behoved the usurper to bring the matter to a speedy termination.
It behoved City men to keep an eye on the fluctuations of the Share list.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day.
It was a circumstance highly unusual in such a place and hour; and, in our situation, itbehoved us to proceed with some timidity.
Bertram, pointing to the fort, which they were now approaching, and where a bustle among the inhabitants showed that their visitors were not always peacefully disposed, and that it behoved them to regard strangers with suspicion.
While the confidential friends of General Washington were thus divided on the part which it behovedhim to act, there was much reason to fear that a full representation of the states would not be obtained.
It certainly behoved them to prepare in time for a much more vigorous effort than had hitherto been made.
True, none of the council were of mature years; but to be lectured and prated at by this boy Robert, who was yet a student in Alma Mater, was an indignity which it behoved them to resent.
She would keep in the background as much as might be, for his sake; but it certainly behovedher to act with promptitude and energy now.
Now was the time come when itbehoved them to display their zeal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behoved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
