Thy mandates I obey; Thou bidst them load my limbs with steel; Thy cruel sentinel Keeps watch beside my prison door; Yet who my crime can tell?
And with such gifts, friend Zaide, thou spreadest thy banquet board, And bidst them eat the dish so sweet, and never say a word!
T is my office Just to announce what well thou know'st--but thus Thou bidst me.
But if thou verily speakest thus in earnest, then the gods themselves have utterly destroyed thy wits; thou that bidst us forget the counsels of loud-thundering Zeus, that himself promised me, and confirmed with a nod of his head!
Thou bidstme begge, this begging is not strange Rosa.
My true Paulina, We shall not marry, till thoubidst vs Paul.
And shall a soul Thou bidstbe free, Return to bondage?
Thou bidst me sing the lay I sung to thee In other days ere joy had left this brow; But think, tho' still unchanged the notes may be, How different feels the heart that breathes them now!
Thou bidst me leave off sorrow lest I, either in mind or in body, be weaker; yet I find no strength, either in mind or body, but am full nigh in despair.
Is thy memory powerful enough to hold all things that thou thinkest out and bidst it to hold?
Could find it meet to exchange Language for silence, as thou bidst me do?
When thou bidst me to put off the old man,[329] dost thou mean not only my old habits of actual sin, but the oldest of all, original sin?
When thou bidst me purge out the leaven,[330] dost thou mean not only the sourness of mine own ill contracted customs, but the innate tincture of sin imprinted by nature?
Thou bidst us hate the garment that is spotted with the flesh.
Now I have run wounded through the forests and swum the black stream to tell it to thee, and thou bidst me turn back alone.
Yet Nautauquas is to be a great brave and I--thou bidst remember to be a squaw.
The heavenly shapes that flit, When the entranced fit, Is on, and the charmed soul forgets its earth, Thou bidst to earthly eyes their sky-dipt vestments wave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bidst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
