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

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

" "But wha may ye be, maister," cried the dame, "I durstna dee your bidding while Jamie's frae the hause.

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

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.

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.

"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?"

"Can it be possible that this woman is so beautiful that she reminds me of the most beautiful of all queens, of her at whose bidding I have lived and grown to this very day?

CHAPTER II THE COMING OF DAVID Having reached this conclusion, the logical thing, of course, was for Marianne to pack and go without waiting to see the race or hear the bidding for the Coles horses; but she could not leave.

Plautianus would never have dared to impose such a bidding upon ten centurions at once, certainly not in Rome, certainly not in the palace, nor on that day, nor at that hour; much less would he have written it.

Nevertheless, the president of the show would be expected to lead the bidding and the Osborns did things properly.

I was seeking thee, to chide thee for leaving my bidding undone; but thou hast been paid all I owed thee, full measure, pressed down and overflowing, by this good fellow.

"Marry, that do I," quoth Robin; "and let me tell thee, friend, thou hadst best mind my bidding.

He commanded these that they should hearken Lot as himself, and observe all his biddings.

Thou wilt perform the bidding of the Lord.

"All Richmond," and that meant a good deal in a city whose women had been adored for beauty and wit on two continents, received Mrs. Atterbury's bidding to her drawing-room with proud alacrity.

"Who and what art thou that canst think a headman's child may receive an insult that is unmerited, and who offerest the service of thy menials, as if the very vassal would not refuse his master's bidding in our behalf!"

The auctioneer, with the customary volubility of such men in America, began by stating, that the lots now to be offered were the remnants of a preceding sale, which he gratuitously observed had been a most satisfactory one, and after dilating with some energy on the good qualities of the woman before us, whose face brightened up a little on hearing such a flattering account of her good qualities, he earnestly requested a bidding.

The spirits delayed at first, not only for dread of the great angel, but because they resented the biddings of mortality, even in their own cause.