75 Verbs to Use for the Word bidding

They need no bidding, methinks: they can come alone! CLIN.

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.

Yet can I foretell a time when philosophers shall no longer run on the futile and selfish errands of kings, and when kings shall be suffered to rule only so far as they obey the bidding of philosophers.

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

Demonstrable talents in artisanry would of course enhance a man's value; and unusual good looks on the part of a young woman might stimulate the bidding of men interested in concubinage.

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.

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.

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.

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

" The man called Simpson got up, saddled his beast, and waited my bidding.

His intellect now was sharp and quick as a needle; he never required a second bidding.

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.

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.

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

The latter had helped to start the bidding, which was all he meant to do, and Osborn would have tried to draw out after making another offer, had he not seen Kit.

Every one takes his notes, chooses the animal he approves of, and can demand the last bidding when he pleases.

The planters as a rule carried their own risks, and they generally dispensed with actuarial reckonings in determining their bids for slaves.

The bidders were principally men, whose wives, had they been present, would probably have discouraged the bidding, on the score that it was impossible to have that thing in the house, when Jenny's had veneer candle-stands and plush pedals.

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.

She had hurried home to execute the bidding of John Mark.

Through all his early years in Newbern he had not once felt the wander-bidding; never, as Dave Cowan put it, had he been itchy-footed for the road.

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.

"And a thousand knights in armor Hath he chosen and required To fulfil his holy bidding All with noblest zeal inspired.

"Why is it," George Henry would occasionally ask himselfthere was no one else for him to talk to"why is it that when a man is sure of his meals every day he has endless invitations to dine out, but that when those events are matters of uncertainty he gets not a bidding to the feast?"

75 Verbs to Use for the Word  bidding