42 Verbs to Use for the Word bid

What is disputable, and a matter of speculative inference, is the further assumption that in pursuing this policy Germany was making a bid to destroy the British Empire.

"Before long you'll want to raise your bid.

" "My panting soul can bear no more, The youth, impatient cried, 'Tis Edward bids thy griefs be o'er,

Nevertheless, he could not help chafing at delay nor longing for the time to come to submit the bid that had lain for a month upon his desk.

The Bad Boy and the Senator's Son Go on an Elephant ChaseThe Senator's Son Gets His Friend a Bid to Dinner at the White HouseThe Trained Seal Swallows an Alarm Clock.

But with the regularity of a trip-hammer Barry Conant's right hand, raised in unhurried gesture, and his clear calm "Sold" met Bob's every retreating bid.

Hats were smashed and coats were being stripped from their owners' backs as though made of paper, and now and then a particularly frantic buyer or seller would be borne to the floor by the impetus of those who sought to fill his bid or grab his offer.

"But let's hear your bid, if you're going to make one.

He stiffened in his chair, a picture of consternation, and guilt appeared stamped on every feature; but he had the presence of mind to look to Mr. Nugent's eye for guidance and sufficient strength of character to accept this last bid for liberty.

So if a Government is formed in the land where I live, the same feeling bids me to support it, if I innocently can.

Since nothing was being offered at the moment to draw a bid from him, he maintained a semblance of interest solely to cover his thoughts, meanwhile lending a civil ear to the garrulous tongue of a dealer of his acquaintance who, having edged nearer to indulge a failing for gossip, found a ready auditor.

When he was again in the Director General's room, the latter said: "I think I will have you formulate a new bid along the lines you have laid down.

The day came for closing the contract, when Colonel Arbuckle, commanding Cantonment Gibson, handed in a bid, in the name of the Creek nation, to furnish the amount of corn required at one dollar and twelve cents per bushel; the next lowest bid to his was one dollar and fifty cents; so that Colonel Arbuckle saved the government 2,280 dollars.

The rest of the brokers hushed their own bids and offers until it could have truthfully been said that the floor of the Stock Exchange was quiet, an almost unheard-of thing in like circumstances.

Still, the one man had increased his bids by fives and the other only by ones.

I knew your father's bid, andI went a few thousands higher and got the prize.

Sancho was put up again, the fat man observing that he had made a mistake in offering a reserve bid for himthat he would be sold without reserve.

This time Lanyard contented himself with nodding to the auctioneer; and the lips of the latter had barely parted to parrot the bid when Victor sprang to his feet, his features working, his limbs shaking so that the legs of the chair beside him, whose back he seized, chattered on the floor, while the high-pitched voice broke into a screech: "Twenty!"

Brief pause prefaced a bid designed to squelch him completely: "Ten thousand!"

She read the ingenuous matrimonial bids.

Yes; I received my bid last night.

It is not intended to record in these pages all the bids that were made as the afternoon advanced, for that would be fatiguing to write, and a weariness to read; suffice it that lots were put up, and regularly knocked down but always to Bellew, or Adam.

" The sword of death hangs over her head whilst she relatesand the Sultan-figure bids us expect that it will fall.

" The Lensmand keeps repeating the bids for the farm; they have got up to the few hundred Kroner the place is judged to be worth, and the bidding goes slowly, now, with but five or ten Kroner more each time.

In opposing Germany's claim to override international treaty obligations to suit the convenience of her military strategists, in associating ourselves with Belgium and Serbia in their vindication of the rights of the smaller nations, we are not merely resisting a fresh bid for world-dominion on the part of a single power, but are challenging the theory that Might is superior to Right in the political world.

42 Verbs to Use for the Word  bid