Miranda-O my father, I have broke your hest to say so!
For from the day when the first Heracleidæ received That Delphic hest to return, What hath involved them, but blind Error on error, and blood?
LX King Norandine, girt with peer and knight, Seeing on every side the people fly, Rides to the gates, with squadron duly dight, And at his hest the portals open fly.
XCII So said he, and obedient to his hest Two spears, say rather heavy booms, they bear.
Thus pondering in his mind, the troubled Prince With joined palms meekly to his master said:-- "I shall thy hest accomplish!
Then Bhima, hearing, called his Bráhmanas Patient and wise, and issued hest to go Into all regions, seeking for the Prince.
But man brake God's hest and fell into sin, and was put out of Paradise into woe and sorrow, worthy to be damned to the pain of hell without any end.
From day to day, as men may all day see, But that the hest of God they disobey.
To mekill all owt, sa cruell punysyng Has thou sufferit, certis, for sik a thyng, Becaus thou hest inforsyt in all thy mycht Fortill ennoy the Troianys in this fight.
Bot gif it lykis to the goddis hie Na thing be left of sa fayr a cite, Or gyf thou hest in mynd decretit eik, 25 And weil lykis thi self and thine to eik Onto the rewyne of Troy, and tobe schent, Ded at our dur is reddy and patent.
And his brothers and his kinsmen duteously his hest obey, With each parting guest and monarch journey on the home ward way.
But thy hest to yield my weapon stung my soul to bitter strife, Dearer is the bow gandiva unto Arjun than his life!
The road I choose, Dogged by my sire and his avenging spirit, Leads me to ruin; but for you may Zeus Make your path bright if ye fulfill my hest When dead; in life ye cannot serve me more.
Since Karl commands me his hest to fill, Unto Saragossa ride forth I will; Yet I fear me to wreak some deed of ill, Thereby to slake this passion's might.
I am thy stepsire, as all men know, And thou doom'st me on hest like this to go; But so God my safe return bestow, I promise to work thee scathe and strife Long as thou breathest the breath of life.
So spake the God and with her hest complied, And turned the massive sceptre in his hand And pushed the hollow mountain on its side.
Thow hest fed us with the bread of tearis, and hath gevin to us tearis to drynk in great measure.
Thow hest maid us a stryf unto our nychtbouris, and our ennemyis laugh us to scorne amangis thame selfis.
Miranda, O my Father, I haue broke your hest to say so Fer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: behest; bidding; commandment; dictate; imperative; order; pleasure; will; word
