The little ones, enrobed, with sceptres play; Their infant cries are loud as stern behest; Their knees the vermeil covers shall display.

Peter knew that the banker subscribed liberally to foreign missions; indeed, at the cashier's behest, the white church of Hooker's Bend kept a paid missionary on the upper Congo.

255 With many a sob, amid a thousand fears, The beauteous wanderer pours her gushing tears; Each soft connection rends her troubled breast, She turns, unconscious of the stern behest!

Command N. command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm^, bidding, dictum, hest^, behest, call, beck, nod. despatch, dispatch; message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions; appointment, fixture.

All the brightest ornaments of the Court were present at the Grand Duchess' behest.

Three years after, at her father's behest, she wedded a writer of ballet music, the Count Gallenberg, to whom Beethoven later advanced money.

When we think of the wives trampled on by husbands whom the law has taught them to regard as inferior beings, and of the mothers whose children are torn from their arms by the direct behest of the law at the bidding of a dead or living father, when we think of these things, our hearts ache with pity and indignation.

Grace, however, viewed the matter differently; not that she attached anything discreditable to Rupert's compliance, for her own womanly tenderness, long and deeply rooted attachment, made it appear to her eyes more as an act of compliance with her own last behest, than as the act of degrading meanness it would unquestionably appear to be, to all the rest of the world.

Then not to disobey her lord's behest, And yet to give him warning, for he rode As if he heard not, moving back she held Her finger up, and pointed to the dust.

There is a voice upon the flood, The stern still call of blood for blood; 'Tis time we listen the behest.

Obey this behest, and thy life is in surety.

For all covered with gore as he was, he again seated himself at table, swearing that though he had a thousand horses or wives, or servants, if they refused to do his behest, he would kill them all; and he again began to look around him, holding his sword in his hand.

I trust that all the agencies which nature has contrived for man to alleviate such woes may have been and may in the future be at your behest; for they alone can repair the evil they have wrought.

She chose, as a pretext for the dissolution of her marriage, the statement that she had entered into it unwillingly at her father's behest.

In her he had found that ideal of womankind which he had so much upheld: instant and dauntless obedience to the behest of the one great love.

Editorial staff of the section confirmed that the contentious article had been published at the behest of Rajan himself.

But in what wise The child of Zeus brought low that man of greed, Tell, Muse, for thine is knowledge: I unfold A secret not mine own; at thy behest Speak or am dumb, nor speak but as thou wilt.

He is Wisdom, Power and Love. 'Tis he ordains the rolling year; Seasons and changes are his own; Then, mortal, live in God's own fear; One struggle, and the year was gone, But Peace had stolen o'er my breast; And as I gazed I shed a tear, And grateful for the last behest, I bless'd the just departed year.

But the jury, at any rate, did not show immediate alacrity in obeying the judge's behest.

O tell me, were ye outlawed thus by Fate's behest?

And there's a man whose lightest word Can set my chilly blood afire; Fulfilment of his least behest Defines my life's desire.

And urged by the king, Bhima made up his mind reluctantly, for he could not openly disobey the royal behest.

So, as at last he drifted into sleep, Guy lying in a deathlike immobility by his side, there came to him the conviction that what he had done had been well done, done in a good cause, and acceptable to the Master Builder at Whose Behest he was vaguely conscious that all great things are achieved.

She made way for Kieff, though not consciously at his behest, and there followed a dreadful struggling upon which she could not look.

His loss was hers as well, and I was glad in my bitterness that I had found her in the passage, seeking for plunder at the behest of the same master whom Morgan, Ferguson and the rest of them served.

"An American can always make a will, and one that contains but a single bequest is soon written.

The bequest Of thy kind Patroness, which to receive We have thus far adventured, will suffice To save thee from the extreme of penury; But when thy Father must lie down and die, How wilt thou stand alone?

Of that bequest demands were afterwards said to have been frequently and roughly made by her son, the great King of Prussia, between whom and his uncle subsisted much inveteracy.'

However much we may deplore the subversion of the Roman constitution and the absolute reign of the emperors, in which most historians see a political necessity, there was yet under these emperors, whether good or bad, the reign of law, the bequest of five hundred years' experience.

All this is reflected in the completed Part First of 1808; it finds its most comprehensive expression in Part Second, the bequest of the dying poet to posterity.

Man's loftiest right, kind nature's high bequest, For your mean purpose basely sport away?

One night, six months before, to alter a small bequest, he had carried the will up-stairs and written a rough draft of the new codicil.

In after-years the memory of books seems barren or vanishing, compared with the immortal bequest of hours like these.

I have a mournful satisfaction in transmitting this precious bequest of that great and good man who through a long life, under many vicissitudes and in both hemispheres, sustained the principles of civil liberty asserted in that memorable Declaration, and who from his youth to the last moment of his life cherished for our beloved country the most generous attachment.

The bequest accompanies the message to the House of Representatives.

Had I left the child more, it might serve as a ground for attacking the will; my acknowledgment of the tie of blood is sufficient to justify a reasonable bequest.

By the same reasoning, she must carry out her father's will in respect to this bequest.

The cardinal desired to requite this service by the bequest of what he considered so valuable.

310; Idler, anecdote of the, i. 33l; introduces subjects on which people differ, iii. 186; Johnson, afraid of, iv. 295; at fairest advantage with him, i. 248, n. 3; bequest to him, iv.

202, n. 1; house in Hedge Lane, iii. 324, n. 2; Johnson's bequest to his children, iv.

431-3; coolness with her brother, i. 486, n. 1; irresolution, her, i. 486, n. 1; Johnson's affection for her, i. 486, n. 1; bequest to her, iv.

431; apologises for his rudeness, iii. 329; arguing, ii. 100, n. 1; 'flew upon an argument,' ii. 365; belabours his confessor, iv. 281; bequest to him, iv.

Sassenach More, ii. 267, n. 2. SASTRES, Signor, the Italian master, Johnson's bequest to him, iv.

429; bequest to him, iv.

415-6; Johnson's bequest to him, iv.

A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member, FORM OF A BEQUEST.

And added, 'They will not gain much by it, poor devils!' Mr. Fishwick with a rather downcast air noted the bequest. '

Mr. Plausaby had already acquired experience in the management of trust funds, in the matter of Isa's patrimony, and it would not be a feat beyond his ability for him to own his wife's bequest and not to own it at the same time.

He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book.

II. BEQUEST.