In good sooth, if thou refusest to own the power of mighty Love, it behooves thee to fly; but whither canst thou fly?

Now this is the whole subject in a nutshella subject it behooves you and all other deep thinkers to grapple withal.

And suppose, after doing your daily stint, you should encounter a word it behooves you to know.

It now behooves your imperial power to give the Roman republic the benefit of law, the ornament of manners, and to lend the arm of protection to the Church.

We should then be brought to acknowledge that it behooves a Christian traveller to crave the assistance of Him who can enable us to suffer with becoming fortitude and resignation all the afflicting dispensations of life, rather than desire to be preserved from meeting them.

The enemy we confront would overthrow this sublime fortress, and it behooves us to defend our heritage.

A Giustinian was first Patriarch of Venice; a saint was father to our else broken linewe have had our share in Church and State, and it behooves a member of the Consiglio to remember the honors of his house.

It behooves us to remember this at a time when changes are coming with such swiftness.

Yet it behooves us to be prepared for any event and to be always ready to maintain those just and enlightened principles of national intercourse for which this Government has ever contended.

But before we cough up the ghost it behooves us to strike one last blow at the hated paleface.

The growth of our population has now brought us, in the destined career of our national history, to a point at which it well behooves us to expand our vision over the vast prospective.

Their loves and likes are great and strong,as it behooves, when the first bubblings of mental and physical activity are manifested in action.

It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government.

And it behooves us, his trainers and physicians, to see that he drops 'em.

In view of the fanaticism of the age, it behooves the master or overseer to be present on all such occasions.

Consequently, even if in all other respects Pompey deserves to be elected against the pirates, still, inasmuch as he would be chosen contrary to the injunction of the laws and to the principles laid down by experience, it behooves both you and him most strongly that it be not done.

Ail, irk, and behoove, are regular verbs and transitive; but they are used only in the third person singular: as, "What ails you?""It irks me.""It behooves you."

Inasmuch as the distinguished anthropologist Waitz mentions (III., 102) the use of such charms among the things which show that "genuine romantic love is not rare among Indians," it behooves us to investigate the matter.

It behooves us, for the sake of the near and dear kinsmen, the Mark brothers, that we should so bear ourselves toward our generous hosts as to make them feel that they have entertained a devil unawares.

As it behooves me, at your feet in dust To plead your pardon for my cousin Homburg.

"So in the wood pastures (saltus) it behooves one to have young men and usually armed men, while on the farm boys or even girls may tend the flock.

"In buying bees it behooves the purchaser to see whether they are well or ailing.

The enlightened and progressive nations of the modern world who have followed the Romans in adopting a decimal system may perhaps approve Stolo's remarks, but it behooves those of us who still cling to the duodecimal system to defend Cato, if only to keep up our own courage.]

It behooves us to remember in an age which science is commonly thought to have materialized, that more and more the mind enters into all results, and fills an ever larger place in life; and this should serve to make materialism seem more and more what it isa savage conception.

And yet I felt, through all the blind, sweet ways Of life, for some clear shape its dreams to blend, Some thread of holy art, to knit the days Each unto each, and all to some fair end, Which, through unmarked removes, Should draw me upward, even as it behooves One whose deep spring-tides from His heart descend.