How To Use Behoove In A Sentence

While price pressure is a huge factor in who can and cannot survive on the land, it behoves us to take the longer-term view, if at all possible, to ensure that we maintain a balance between rural and urban living.
From what Meer does tell me, it behooves us to look to our own. A TIME OF WAR
And it behoves us to see that they're given a fair chance to develop clean and wholesome bodies without which any nation must go to the wall.
Then did they ask a thousand questions of Don Quixote; but he would answer to none of them, and only requested them to give him some meat, and suffer him to sleep, seeing rest was most behooveful for him. The First Part. V. Wherein Is Prosecuted Former Narration of Our Knight’s Misfortunes
And of everych of these sins it behoveth them to be shriven of their priests, and to pay great sum of silver for their penance. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Besides, I behooved to be round the hirsel this morning, and see how the herds were coming ontheyre apt to be negligent wi their footballs, and fairs, and trysts, when anes away. Chapter XXV
Consequently, agricultural bank anti - corruption defeats behoove from correct violate compasses manage grab.
It behoved them not to tarry on that account, for verily the value of the two hundred loads is only some seven thousand dinars. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It behooves us to reflect on this matter
If I tell people what I am doing it behoves me to do something!
But it also behooves us to be very cautious in accusing someone of racism. sensible Cape Coral FL Republicans say Carter playing 'race card'
“Troth, I’ll pledge naebody the night, Maister Touchwood; for, what wi’ the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi’ the bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already. — Saint Ronan's Well
‘If we have toilets it behoves us to look after them,’ he said.
At a time when the photography of sculpture in general is being problematized and historicized, it behooves the field to think analytically about the implications of various photographic strategies in its publications.
And it behoves us to ensure the tunnel was state of the art and had all the modern requirements,’ Mr Tobin said.
The point in this case, my Lord, is that the claimant has never applied to work and we have not considered whether or not she can work, so it ill behoves her to suggest that we are preventing her from doing so.
The interior, even on a Calais, still shrieks its distinctly working car roots; a general plasticky look and feel which ill behoves a $50,000 car.
There was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it behooves us to look at them briefly.
Therefore, it behoves us to help people a little bit, by making sure that a title bears some relationship to the contents of a bill.
Not that these things (as I said of fasting) are to be discommended of themselves, but very behoveful in some cases and good: sobriety and contemplation join our souls to God, as that heathen [6459] Porphyry can tell us. Anatomy of Melancholy
Liu posted his letter to Brown on his campaign (for City Comptroller) website: "It's outrageous and insulting for you to suggest it would 'behoove' us to adopt another name, to give up our birthright and a part of our own identity, in order to exercise our right to vote" and suggest she resign if she doesn't apologize. Gothamist
From all appearances, it behooves me to be clearing out, ere the pent-up feelings of the people find vent in some aggressive manner, as a result of this person's incitant eloquence. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
So thus through the monuments of writing which is the testimony unto virtue many men have been moved, some to build cities, some to devise and establish laws right, profitable, necessary and behoveful for the human life, some other to find new arts, crafts and sciences, very requisite to the use of mankind. John Lyly
And in this respect he did advise him, seeing he might yet command him, as one that, by receiving the order of knighthood at his hands, should very shortly become his godchild, that he should not travel from thenceforward without money and other the preventions he had then given unto him; and he should perceive himself how behooveful they would prove unto him when he least expected it. The First Part. III. Wherein Is Recounted the Pleasant Manner Observed in the Knighting of Don Quixote
"It ill behooves a tube inspector to let a bias towards a meaningless relationship creep into his reporting" I said.
So in terms of sisterhood, it behoves us to stay married if it is an option.
And whether he die or live, it is necessary and behoveful that mistress Jane depart not from her into Medieval People
Never heard the word "behoove" before, have I've been missing out? AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
They are not so behoveful: he that can tell his money hath arithmetic enough: he is a true geometrician, can measure out a good fortune to himself; a perfect astrologer, that can cast the rise and fall of others, and mark their errant motions to his own use. Anatomy of Melancholy
That is their secret, and will remain so; it behoves us not to pry, only to speculate in passing.
So it would behove us ‘poorly informed’ environmentalists and ‘street protesters’ to post-haste mend our errant ways.
But I think it ill behooves them when this is a compulsory program for all the rest of the people in the country -- that they should somehow be exempt from this program.
Having said that, and because I don't wish to be a downer, I must say that I believe that it behoves me to act as an optimist, because the alternative is completely without redeeming features.
Two, I just wrote a screenplay which I'm hoping Dave will one day direct, so it behoves me to keep him sweet.
So in terms of sisterhood, it behoves us to stay married if it is an option.
It behooves all educators with a vested interest in agriculture to continue inspiring, motivating, and ‘teaching’ the next generation of agriculturists nationwide.
As long as we're all here, I think it would behoove us to reach some sort of understanding. LADY BE GOOD
Some of my favorites include: behoove bewilder bologna ... only because it is not spelled the way it sounds nonetheless ... 3 words in 1! Archive 2009-04-01
While we choose not to be labelled as such, it behooves us to reflect on the sadness and self loathing we experience as a result of performing acts of escapism.
It behoves the sceptics among us to listen and argue rather than to whoop with delight at the superficial difficulties.
All things flow from thence: and whatsoever it is that is, is both necessary, and conducing to the whole (part of which thou art), and whatsoever it is that is requisite and necessary for the preservation of the general, must of necessity for every particular nature, be good and behoveful. Meditations
As long as we're all here, I think it would behoove us to reach some sort of understanding. LADY BE GOOD
And if we say that she is resolved into common putrefaction in worms and into ashes or dust; it behoveth us to weigh and think such thing as appertaineth to so great holiness, and to the seignory of such a chamber of God. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
And zif 2 persones ben at debate, and peraventure ben accorded be here frendes or be sumn of here alliance, it behovethe that every of hem, that schulle ben accorded, drynke of otheres blood: and elle the accord ne the alliance is noghte worthe, ne it schalle not be ne repref to him to breke the alliance and the accord, but zif every of hem drynke of otheres blood. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Not that these things (as I said of fasting) are to be discommended of themselves, but very behoveful in some cases and good: sobriety and contemplation join our souls to God, as that heathen [6459] Porphyry can tell us. Anatomy of Melancholy
When you come to the point where listing the components of one aspect of a poem requires more words than the poem itself it behoves you to pull back, hastily, as from a bed of fierce, fiery nettles.
It ill-behooves the president's partisans to use the sheer magnitude of their screw-ups as an excuse not to discuss them.
“Gentlemen — gentlemen, save yourselves! for the gudewife bade us tell ye there were folk in her house had taen Captain Craigengelt, and were seeking for Bucklaw, and that ye behoved to ride for it.” The Bride of Lammermoor
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He told Coppolino that it "behooved" him to be sparing when he submits classified materials. RINF Alternative News Media: Daily Breaking News
Moniplies (also for sense of 'behoved'): 'Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthern pot -- etym. dub.), as he said "just to put my Scotch ointment in;" and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them.' The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
Then Drona, desirous of humiliating king Drupada, called together his disciples and addressed them, 'Ye sinless ones, it behoveth you, after you have been accomplished in arms, to give me as preceptorial fee something that I cherish in my heart.' The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
Remember that his very physiognomy is a cipher the key to which it behooves you to search for most diligently. The Promised Land
Perseverance is a quality that behoves in a scientist.
And it behoves us to see that they're given a fair chance to develop clean and wholesome bodies without which any nation must go to the wall.
Characteristic behoove makes competition ability and translate into productivity.
In the same way it behooved our Christian brothers to allow us Jews to choose to commemorate the extermination of our people in the manner we saw fit, it likewise behooves our Islamic brothers and sisters to approach the families of those who died on 9/11 and ask them how they wish the site to be commemorated. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Is a Giant Mosque at Ground Zero Justified?
Surprisingly, then, it behoves the discerning reader to gravitate toward books that are homely.
As a health board with responsibility for the delivery of health care for 400,000 people in the south east, it behoves us to make our position crystal clear.
The services should remain… and it behoves us to carry out that regardless of Europeans or anyone else… we are running the show here in the Midlands.
And it behoves us to ensure the tunnel was state of the art and had all the modern requirements,’ Mr Tobin said.
Flatau said it would have "behooved" Windsor government to consult CDOT before giving the approval to waive the height variance on the wall. Greeley Tribune - Top Stories
Peter is as much to say as knowing or unhosing, or Peter is said of petros, that is constant and firm, and by that be understood three privileges that were in S. Peter; he was a much noble preacher, and therefore he is said knowing, for he had perfect knowledge of scripture, and knew in his predication what was behoveful to ever each person. The Golden Legend, vol. 3
Now for this water it behoveth us have three pairs of fine fat capons, and for other things that are required thereanent, do thou give one of these (thy comrades) five silver crowns, so he may buy them, and let carry everything to my shop; and to-morrow, in God's name, I will send thee the distilled water aforesaid, whereof thou shalt proceed to drink a good beakerful at a time. ' The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
For in order to direct the view aright, it behoves that the beholder should have made himself congenerous and similar to the object beheld. Biographia Literaria
‘If we have toilets it behoves us to look after them,’ he said.
Two, I just wrote a screenplay which I'm hoping Dave will one day direct, so it behoves me to keep him sweet.
Sae ae auld hirpling deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way and offer me a pig, as he said, just to put my Scotch ointment in, and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit ower amang his ain pigs, and damaged a score of them. The Fortunes of Nigel
There is no doubt that with every noble art, the greater the honours that are bestowed upon it, the greater the responsibilities which it assumes; and now that the stage has been endorsed-using the term in its widest sense-as a necessary and useful branch of public service, it certainly behooves the stage, and it behooves the public to see that it shall not derogate from the eminence on which it has been placed. The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress
Ecclesiastical Polity," Book I., had affirmed the sovereignty or legislative power of the people as the ultimate authority, and had also declared for an original social contract, "all public regiment of what kind soever seemeth evidently to have risen from deliberate advice, consultation, and composition between men, judging it convenient and behoveful. The Rise of the Democracy
Always seen that they require of him that is needful and behoveful. The Golden Legend, vol. 6
Plainly this fellow Brown was a raving loose screw, and I knew Crixus was no better, but it behoved me to respond as Comber would have responded, and then take my leave for the British ministry. THE NUMBERS
In a democracy, it behoves us to challenge and think.
They are behooveful unto me, and serve my turn in three things very exquisite, requisite, and authentical. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
When the morning morrowed in sheen and shone, Nur al-Din awoke from deep sleep and found that she had brought water: 484 so they made the Ghusl-ablution, he and she, and he performed that which behoved him of prayer to his Lord, after which she set before him meat and drink, and he ate and drank. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
When the morning morrowed in sheen and shone, Nur al-Din awoke from deep sleep and found that she had brought water: 484 so they made the Ghusl-ablution, he and she, and he performed that which behoved him of prayer to his Lord, after which she set before him meat and drink, and he ate and drank. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
It behoves us to help the needy.
In the first place, then, it behooves us to name an old negress, of some sixty years, called Cybele, free through the will of her master, a slave through her affection for him and his, and who had been the nurse of Yaquita. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
It behoves us to help the needy.
At the least, it might behoove us to accept and make the best of it, rather than whine about our "druthers" and cast about for someone, or something, to blame. Adirondack Daily Enterprise
I have heard say that corn is sold in Egypt; go ye thither and buy for us that is necessary and behoveful, that we may live, and consume not for need. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
We're more than two centuries down the evolutionary road, and it behoves us to keep refining the framework of society.
But it behoves us to previse that the doctor does not kill her before the lawyer comes. ' Evan Harrington — Volume 7
Nevertheless, it behoved him also to conduct himself towards the intruder as an old ‘archdeacon should conduct himself to an incoming bishop; and though he was well aware of all Dr. Proudie’s abominable opinions as regarded dissenters, church reform, the hebdomadal council, and such like; though he disliked the man, and hated the doctrines, still he was prepared to show respect to the station of the bishop. Barchester Towers
In a democracy, it behoves us to challenge and think.
Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner told the Associated Press it would " behoove " Mr. Lee to sign with the Yankees. Now It
Accordingly, on the morrow he gave him a thousand dinars and a suit of clothes and a black slave and mounting him on a she-mule, said to him, Allah give thee quittance of responsibility for all this,29 inasmuch as thou art my friend and it behoveth me to deal generously with thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Wendland; which, she often reflected, might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened. Early Kings of Norway
I believe his motives are always pure, and his measures often able; but they are endless, and never done with that pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behoves the wise and virtuous improver to walk. Sydney Smith
If there are difficulties with Stay Safe, then it behoves us to overcome the difficulties and ensure children have the information.
The secret pride of our heroine and every gentler feeling of her bosom were roused from their recent state of torpidness by the idea that the very appearance she wished on all occasions to avoid, had now become so conspicuous, as to require the encouraging support of the individual from whose observation it particularly behoved her to conceal every reprehensible bias in his favour, or every circumstance that even bore the semblance of such Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
If you work with chromakeys on a regular basis, it would behoove you to take a look at ULTRA 2.
As pioneers of electronica, it behoves them to be at the forefront of technical developments.
The other fact is, that Thyri had, by inheritance or covenant, not depending on her marriage with old Burislav, considerable properties in Wendland, which she often reflected might be not a little behooveful to her here in Norway, where her civil-list was probably but straitened. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
The author having, however rashly, committed his pledges thus largely to the hazards of trading companies, it behoved him, of course, to abide the consequences of his conduct, and, with whatever feelings, he surrendered on the instant every shred of property which he had been accustomed to call his own. Chronicles of the Canongate
When you come to the point where listing the components of one aspect of a poem requires more words than the poem itself it behoves you to pull back, hastily, as from a bed of fierce, fiery nettles.
Of course, it behoves the legislator to distinguish the categories logically and justly.
We're more than two centuries down the evolutionary road, and it behoves us to keep refining the framework of society.
They'd gobble up the picquet there, and be over the Natal border by sundown; it behoved Flashy to bear away north, and try to cross the river well beyond the reach of the impis. Watershed
But the quote is "Sinne is behovely, but alle shalle be wele, and alle shalle be wele, and all maner of thinge shalle be wel. Decisions and revisions
Coulter did not feel "behooved": "I think it's just the reverse. NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
` ` It's outrageous and insulting for you to suggest it would 'behoove' us to adopt another name, to give up our birthright and a part of our own identity, in order to exercise our right to vote, '' he said. --1010 WINS Newswatch Headlines
Majesty finds the truth of things, her graciousness will not utterly, overthrow a cause so behooveful and costly unto her. History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86)
Now when the Commander of the Faithful heard this verse, he was moved to great delight and his sister said to him, “O my brother, whoso decideth in aught against himself, him it behoveth to abide by it and do according to his word; and thou hast judged against thyself by this judgement.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
As Murray Trachtenberg was preparing to exit the courtroom our Counsel Anders Bruun jocularly said, "It's far from over Murray" to which the prolific, production line, serial kvetcher Mr. Trachtenberg replied, "It does not behoove you as counsel to make threats to me as I am leaving the courtroom. "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader
As the first barrister briefed in that seminal case, it behoves me to respond to this ignorant calumny.
Saladin, -- whose valour was such that not only from a man of little account it made him Soldan of Babylon, but gained him many victories over kings Saracen and Christian, -- having in divers wars and in the exercise of his extraordinary munificences expended his whole treasure and having an urgent occasion for a good sum of money nor seeing whence he might avail to have it as promptly as it behoved him, called to mind a rich Jew, by name Melchizedek, who lent at usance in The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
If there are difficulties with Stay Safe, then it behoves us to overcome the difficulties and ensure children have the information.
Dr. Fligor, who called binaural beats "not the least bit harmful," would probably agree with this assessment, but just in case i-dosing is the first step on the path to heroin addiction, it would behoove you to know how to spot the warning signs of a digital drug problem. Aspen Times - Top Stories
Moreover, there is the air far fresher [18] and there at this season is more plenty of that which behoveth unto life and less is the sum of annoys, for that, albeit the husbandmen die there, even as do the townsfolk here, the displeasance is there the less, insomuch as houses and inhabitants are rarer than in the city. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
"It ill behooves a tube inspector to let a bias towards a meaningless relationship creep into his reporting" I said.
Having said that, and because I don't wish to be a downer, I must say that I believe that it behoves me to act as an optimist, because the alternative is completely without redeeming features.
I felt that it behoved me to do my best to help draw attention to his pathetic situation, and, thankfully, my efforts have been rewarded.
'For the young laird -- a feckless, ugsome, sickly wean he was, puir laddie -- a knight cam by, an' behoved to take him to the King. The Caged Lion
Then how does it behove a government bound by the Constitution and laws to spread such lies and canards day in and day out about the educational institutions of the country's largest religious minority?
But I think it ill behooves them when this is a compulsory program for all the rest of the people in the country -- that they should somehow be exempt from this program.
And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude! The Heart of Mid-Lothian
“Ye have fought through all this day and are aweary of fight; so it behoveth that you return to your places and sleep and not sit up.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
For the two by reason have vigils, but because that penance is accounted for vigil, therefore that of our Lady behoveth no vigil, but they have all utas, for all haste them unto the eighth resurrection. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
They are behooveful unto me, and serve my turn in three things very exquisite, requisite, and authentical. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Where once guides to modern behavior stressed how vulgar it was to smoke, when ladies took up the habit, it behooved these arbiters of social instruction to catch up with the times. Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade
Further, As the design of the Heavenly Majesty is to bring his elect to glory by means, so by the means thus universal and general, as most behooveful and fit; if we consider not only the way it doth please him to work with some of his chosen, in order to this their glory, but also the trials, temptations, and other calamities they must go through thereto. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
The services should remain… and it behoves us to carry out that regardless of Europeans or anyone else… we are running the show here in the Midlands.
I think this is an occasion on which it behoves us all to walk rather circumspectly.
If I tell people what I am doing it behoves me to do something!
He had made a deliberate effort to put the entire meteoric episode out of mind — reminiscing about past passions ill behooved a married man, after all. Archive 2010-02-01
Therefore, it behoves us to help people a little bit, by making sure that a title bears some relationship to the contents of a bill.
As a health board with responsibility for the delivery of health care for 400,000 people in the south east, it behoves us to make our position crystal clear.
So it would behove us ‘poorly informed’ environmentalists and ‘street protesters’ to post-haste mend our errant ways.
They'd gobble up the picquet there, and be over the Natal border by sundown; it behoved Flashy to bear away north, and try to cross the river well beyond the reach of the impis. Watershed
Again, this field of study has remained relatively neglected, and it would behove future researchers to devote more attention to the phenomenon of neo-virginity.
The debate is fundamentally an argument about the flow of immigrants and whether it behooves us to try and dam it off or absorb it.
In the meantime, it behooves us all, patients and doctors alike, to learn how the health insurance industry works.
It ill behoves her to criticize her colleagues.
I humbly bow to the power of "behoove", unfortunatly since I mostly speak swedish daily it would seem slightly crazy to slip in "behoove" anywhere at all. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
In furtherance to their objectives, it behooved them to try to convince the rest of the world to accept the U.S. as the one provider of security forces for the rest of the world.
Troth, I'll pledge naebody the night, Maister Touchwood; for, what wi 'the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi' the bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already. St. Ronan's Well
In a letter to Brown, Liu said Thursday: "It's outrageous and insulting for you to suggest it would 'behoove' us to adopt another name, to give up our birthright and a part of our own identity, in order to exercise our right to vote. Statesman - AP Sports
They demolished the Old Dutch Mustard factory to build 80 Met said it "behooved" him to tear down what was one of Wiliamsburg's most charming surviving old industrial buildings. Pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
I felt that it behoved me to do my best to help draw attention to his pathetic situation, and, thankfully, my efforts have been rewarded.
In the meantime, it would behoove all of us "behoove" means something that causes you to grow hooves to remember the true spirit of "Bike Month," which is, of course, all about health, respect, safety, fanny-packs, and gigantic "Fred" rides. The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding?
It behoves you also to go to prayer with a most entire resignation and submission and pliantness to go that way in religion and in life that God points out to you. Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings
It behoves the sceptics among us to listen and argue rather than to whoop with delight at the superficial difficulties.
That I would, replied Don Quixote, forasmuch as I think the taking of a little meat would be very behooveful for me. The First Part. II. Of the First Sally That Don Quixote Made to Seek Adventures
Hence, given that historians make such claims ‘it behooves them to make sure that the cited nomothetic principles have an empirical foundation’.
So it behoveth thee to be joyful hereat and contented, for that I am become to thee as a son, maugre my more of age, an thou to me as a dear father, despite thy tenderness of years, and it hath become incumbent on me to do mine utmost endeavour in all thou commandest me. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This is as big a piece of tosh as the notion that Bruce Kent and CND (of which most of the present Cabinet were card-carrying members before it behoved them to hide the cards away) winning the Cold War. Archive 2007-09-23
For nothing that is behoveful unto the whole, can be truly hurtful to that which is part of it. Meditations
While price pressure is a huge factor in who can and cannot survive on the land, it behoves us to take the longer-term view, if at all possible, to ensure that we maintain a balance between rural and urban living.
Jack of the Smithies was a trencherman of the very first order, and being well wedded (with a promise already of young soldiers to come), it behooved him to fill all his holes away from home, and spare his own cupboard for the sake of Mistress Smithies. Mary Anerley
The host, too, was sore adread, as behooved him now, for his life was hardly safe from these his foes. The Nibelungenlied
Knowing that the structure was rough and temporary, it behove her to keep a careful lookout as to the shape, conformation and position of its boundary with the kerbstone.
He seems to have smoked nothing more splendid than clay pipes, and 'as in his wanderings these behoved to break, he used to take quills, and putting one into the other and all into the end of the "cutty," this served to make it long enough, and the tobacco to smoke cool.' The True Story Book
Knowing that the structure was rough and temporary, it behove her to keep a careful lookout as to the shape, conformation and position of its boundary with the kerbstone.
The point in this case, my Lord, is that the claimant has never applied to work and we have not considered whether or not she can work, so it ill behoves her to suggest that we are preventing her from doing so.
And it behoveth, that anon at the first sight that men see the soldan, be it in window or in what place else, that men kneel to him and kiss the earth, for that is the manner to do reverence to the soldan of them that speak with him. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Moniplies (also for sense of "behoved"): "Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthen pot -- etym. dub.), as he said 'just to put my Scotch ointment in'; and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
There was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it behooves us to look at them briefly.

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