The expletive that it now behoves us to consider is one which has never been adequately treated in a book.
Him first, my son, behoves thee seize and bind That he may all the cause of sickness show, And grant a prosperous end.
It behoves us to know that, before giving the alarm.
He doth lie Transverse; nor any passes, but him first Behoves make feeling trial how each weighs.
Soon as to that part Of life I found me come, when each behoves To lower sails and gather in the lines; That which before had pleased me then I rued, And to repentance and confession turn'd; Wretch that I was!
After a most successful cruise, we returned to our Bellona, and were received as behoves success, with ever so many rounds of cheers.
Therefore it is not to be surprised at that Colonel Lougher could not make her out, or that while he was feeling about for his eye-glass of best crystal, his sister was (as behoves a female) rasher to express opinion.
To pass this lightly--as nowbehoves me--just let me tell what Susan Shapland said, when I worked it out of her.
And now, Brother David, rejoice a little, as behoves a Christian man, upon the blessed Sabbath-day.
I will tell you something about it at another time; at present it behoves us to push on.
Only, in a disturbed country it behoves a man to hold his tongue in regard to his affairs.
Such diversity in their executions has this view, that in punishing of glaring iniquities, itbehoves likewise to display them to sight: but effeminacy and pollution must be buried and concealed.
I said, Goethe is nevertheless the king of our literature, and in applying the knife of criticism to such a one, it always behoves us to show a proper courtesy, just as the executioner who was to behead Charles I.
Therefore it behoves us to renounce all the sensuous joys of life, to torture the body, which is Satan's portion, in order that the soul may the more majestically soar aloft to the bright heavens, to the radiant kingdom of Christ.
Dr Arabin (we suppose he must have become a doctor when he became a dean) is more moderate and less outspoken on doctrinal points than his wife, as indeed in his station it behoves him to be.
Tis thus that many live, and it therefore behoves all those who are well to do in the world be on their guard against those who are not.
But for the very love of this truth, and to preserve in our soul the ardour we need for its search, it behoves us to deem it great.
However, if we are to rear only four children per marriage, and if we are to give the medical man liberty to weed out the weaklings, it behoves us to see that the children whom we produce are of the best quality.
The medicine that shall cure him I know very well how to devise, but it behoves you to keep secret what I am about to tell you.
They say that there were several cases last week of that plague that has been doing so much harm in foreign parts, and if that is so it behoves us to be very careful, and see that any illness is attended to without delay.
Nevertheless--useless or not--it behoves one to make them.
Inferno: Canto XX Of a new pain behoves me to make verses And give material to the twentieth canto Of the first song, which is of the submerged.
Then afterwards behoves it this one fall Within three suns, and rise again the other By force of him who now is on the coast.
A longer stairway it behoves thee mount; 'Tis not enough from these to have departed; Let it avail thee, if thou understand me.
It may be that the deed was not done by thee, but by orders to thy men; but, anyway, it behoves thee to clear thyself by finding Abel Churr.
It behoves thee now strictly to observe, both in great and in small things, the laws and regulations of Chinghis Khan, and to take possession of the countries from the Oxus to the Nile.
It behoves their modern impugners to furnish some stronger proofs than any they have as yet brought forward.
It illbehoves To sleep all night the man of high employ, And charged as thou art with a people's care.
It ill behoves To sleep all night the man of high employ, And charged, as thou art, with a people's care.
Between Wordsworth and Hazlitt you will learn all that it behoves you to know of the nature, the aims, and the results of poetry.
Yet, thus called upon, it behoves me to explain, and endeavour to vindicate, the reasons by which I have been hitherto guided.
Either there are circumstances in this affair at present utterly incomprehensible, or else some strange and most atrocious fraud has been practiced; which of these two is the case it now behoves us to enquire.
A question, which deserves our attention in this place, is, how much of every day it behoves us to give to regular and stated occupation, and how much is the just and legitimate province of leisure.
It behovesall of us, therefore, who are interested in abolishing military barbarism, not merely to yield a passive assent to it ourselves, but to claim for it assent and assertion from others.
It behoves us, however, of necessity, to be to some extent practical.
In entering upon a serious obligation it behoves a man to be specific.
It behoves thee to bear thyself according to the instructions conveyed herein, understanding them after careful reflection!
It behoves thee not to conceal from me all thy secret motives.
In truth, if thou hast might of arms, it behoves thee to display it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behoves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
