How To Use Had best In A Sentence
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Now there was a practice familiar to those times; that when a congiary or any other popular liberality was announced, multitudes were enfranchised by avaricious masters in order to make them capable of the bounty, (as citizens,) and yet under the condition of transferring to their emancipators whatsoever they should receive; _ina ton dæmosios d domenon siton lambanontes chata mæna -- pherosi tois dedochasi tæn eleutherian_ says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in order that after receiving the corn given publicly in every month, they might carry it to those who had bestowed upon them their freedom.
The Caesars
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Thereafter I was issued with a new puggaree, half-boots and pyjamy breeches, a new and very smart silver-grey uniform coat, a regulation sabre, a belt and bandolier, and a tangle of saddlery which was old and stiff enough to have been used at Waterloo (and probably had), and informed by a betel-chewing havildar that if I didn't have it reduced to gleaming suppleness by next morning, I had best look out.
Fiancée
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Those expecting fiery discourses or steamy passions had best look elsewhere; this is a warm, affectionate, personal look at Lewis and Gresham.
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The first thing we all discovered was that the rather ponderous first names his parents had bestowed on him had been replaced by'Sam '.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unsure whether to be relieved or paranoid, Karae unfolded her benumbed legs and lay back in the thick grass, dozing happily, taking full advantage of the calm state her meditation had bestowed on her.
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Chanting her Walkyrie war-cry, Brunhilde departs, laughingly calling out to Wotan that he had best be prepared for a call from his wife, who is hastening toward him as fast as her rams can draw her brazen chariot.
Stories of the Wagner Opera
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I had been discomposed enough before; but I was so much the more discomposed by this unexpected behavior, that I was on the point of slinking off, to think how I had best proceed.
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What most people don't know is that after World War I, and particularly in Austria where the Hapsburg empire had bestrode Europe like a colossus, things were very, very tough.
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Irish Houses of Peers denounced the oppressive measures of the government, and his opposition gave so much offence that the English general Lake was reported to hayer declared that if a town in the North was to be burnt, they had best begin with Lord Moira's, causing him so much apprehension that he removed his collection, which was of extraordinary value, from his seat, Moira Hall, in the county Down, to
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
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Now there was a practice familiar to those times; that when a congiary or any other popular liberality was announced, multitudes were enfranchised by avaricious masters in order to make them capable of the bounty, (as citizens,) and yet under the condition of transferring to their emancipators whatsoever they should receive; _ina ton dæmosios d domenon siton lambanontes chata mæna -- pherosi tois dedochasi tæn eleutherian_ says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in order that after receiving the corn given publicly in every month, they might carry it to those who had bestowed upon them their freedom.
The Caesars
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The first thing we all discovered was that the rather ponderous first names his parents had bestowed on him had been replaced by'Sam '.
Times, Sunday Times
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And for many a day the young lady, scared at least out of a portion of her young ladyhood, bore on her arms and shoulders and wrists divers black-and-blue bruises – tokens of caresses which he had bestowed in all fond gentleness but too late at night.
When the World Was Young
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It started with a few scratchy 45s that an aunt had bestowed on me as an alternative to throwing the precious platters in the direction of a Blue Peter bring-and-buy sale.
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It was a tone at once chipper and woeful that suggested Maddy was a frail eggshell-spirited thing and had best be treated gently.
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Are rhinitis and pharyngitis had best the most effective treatment method ah?
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He could be a hater—anyone who failed to perceive the genius of his hero Aneurin Bevan, whose biography he wrote, had best look out—but he was incapable of sustained malevolence.
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The first thing we all discovered was that the rather ponderous first names his parents had bestowed on him had been replaced by'Sam '.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Soviet Union then fielded a huge army that had bested the Wehrmacht and was fully capable of gobbling up large chunks of Western Europe.
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Most of them were in the Sprites 'own language, selected from the terms Hantis had bestowed on the little Sprite muck-a-muck.
The Wizard Of Karres
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But except under extraordinary circumstances, we had best focus on creating stability by calibrating the balance of power among states rather than revamping the balance of forces within them.
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Yet this megalomaniac blundered on, boasting of an episode in his life that had best be referred to only in passing.
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Anybody gainsaying General Relativity had best demonstrate an unambiguous reproducible falsification.
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They might have discovered, if they had bestirred themselves, that New York doesn't have to be Moscow-on-the-Hudson but could become a normal two-party town like most of America.
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Perhaps we had best ask ourselves why our political institutions function as they do.
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She'd only been a member of the guard for six days, but already had bested some higher ranking guards in practices.
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Meanwhile we had best prepare the way by showing that a medicine beyond verbal shamanism is an aching need.
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It proved as he anticipated, for Wakatta, who must have received a highly flattering account of us from Eiulo, was not satisfied until he had bestowed upon each one of us, Johnny included, similar tokens of his regard, Max rushing forward, with an air of "empressement," and taking the initiative, as he had promised.
The Island Home
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Now, though Captain Riga had not been guilty of any particular outrage against the sailors; yet, by a thousand small meannesses -- such as indirectly causing their allowance of bread and beef to be diminished, without betraying any appearance of having any inclination that way, and without speaking to the sailors on the subject -- by this, and kindred actions, I say, he had contracted the cordial dislike of the whole ship's company; and long since they had bestowed upon him a name unmentionably expressive of their contempt.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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Meanwhile we had best prepare the way by showing that a medicine beyond verbal shamanism is an aching need.
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You had best go," said Grannie, looking up at the girl with her bright blue eyes, and a determined expression steeling her sweet old mouth almost to sternness.
Good Luck
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She had bestowed its goods liberally on her brother and his children, and granted corrodies far too freely.
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It seemed as if the giant insurance behemoth had bestirred itself to face competition in a liberalised environment.
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During the greater part of the 19th C. our 'betters' debated long and hard as to whether it was worthwhile to educate us in order to maximise their profits from the industry and commerce which the Industrial Revolution had bestowed on the burgeoning British Empire [I always wanted to use the word burgeoning!].
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Still steadily reposing against the bannisters, he worked hard at refining his paragraph, persuaded, since not summoned by Miss Margland, he had bestowed upon it but a few minutes, though he had been fixed to that spot near an hour.
Camilla
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Whoever wants "cleverality," whoever wants what Mr. Shaw and Mr. Chesterton supply so brilliantly and abundantly to the present generation, had best leave Johnson alone.
Dr. Johnson and His Circle
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Old Keltie, the landlord, who had bestowed his name on a bridge in the neighbourhood of his quondam dwelling, received the carrier with his usual festive cordiality, and adjourned with him into the house, under pretence of important business, which, I believe, consisted in their emptying together a mutchkin stoup of usquebaugh.
The Abbot
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To have shown it to her husband would have been her first impulse; but, besides that he was absent from home, and the matter too delicate to be the subject of correspondence by an indifferent penwoman, Mrs. Butler recollected that he was not possessed of the information necessary to form a judgment upon the occasion; and that, adhering to the rule which she had considered as most advisable, she had best transmit the information immediately to her sister, and leave her to adjust with her husband the mode in which they should avail themselves of it.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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It was as if our dealings with Mr Hall had bestowed on us some sort of special status.
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Meanwhile we had best prepare the way by showing that a medicine beyond verbal shamanism is an aching need.
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England, probably by skriegh of day -- and in my opinion you had best be travelling with the stots, 'said she.
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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He could be a hater—anyone who failed to perceive the genius of his hero Aneurin Bevan, whose biography he wrote, had best look out—but he was incapable of sustained malevolence.
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In no case is much mixing of methods to be desired; but if appliqué is to be supplemented, it had best be with couching, which is not so much stitching as stitched down, itself another form of applied work.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
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Chaplin had not taken US citizenship and was seen in America as ungrateful for the prosperity that his successful career in the US had bestowed upon him.
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'Twas Si himself that was riding gaily up the water, for he had disposed of his 'hogging' to a grazier from Hexham at a good price, and was now bethinking him whence he had best re-stock his farm -- whether from
Border Ghost Stories
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The Friars brotherly Companion, who had given sufficient enstructions to the Nurse, and a small purse full of Sisters white thred, which a Nunne (after shrift) had bestowed on him, upon the husbands admittance into the Chamber (which they easily heard) came in also to them, and seeing all in very good tearmes, they holpe to make a joyfull conclusion, the Brother saying to Friar Reynard: Brother, I have finished all those foure jaculatory prayers, which you commanded me.
The Decameron
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You may read it, he added like a magnifico who had bestowed a particular privilege upon one of his less-deserving followers.
The Mistaken Wife
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I should like a game with old 'Santy' in a clear ring, and fair play; but I am thinking we had best take French leave of this place, and join the main body where we can fight with some chance ahead.
Inez A Tale of the Alamo
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Were you a native of Greece, where to exhibit in the public games [e] is an honourable employment; and if the gods had bestowed upon you the force and sinew of the athletic Nicostratus [f]; do you imagine that I could look tamely on, and see that amazing vigour waste itself away in nothing better than the frivolous art of darting the javelin, or throwing the coit?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements