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Definition of behest:

  • (noun) an authoritative command or request

Sentence Examples:

John Baskerville endeavors to give at least some idea of the motives underlying his behests.

Only a most delicate response to the behests of inspiration can make such verse successful.

It was impossible, therefore, unless he also became mortal, for them to obey the original behest.

Year after year the legislature shifted officers and responsibilities at the behest of the boss.

From that time on Joseph never murmured again, but obeyed blindly his brother's slightest behest.

Prompt obedience is expected by kings; a ready compliance with their wishes, is their behest.

He sometimes has also a snake or other man-eating creature, always ready to obey his behests.

Afterwards she continued to carry out the parental behest and again completely absorbed his attention.

They are not obligatory in the peculiar sense in which the ethical behest binds to righteousness.

See that loving, obedient child, whose highest delight is to perform your behest and anticipate your wishes.

The priests had lost their power; and the secular authority no longer obeyed their behests.

I would have liked, goodness knows, to have said that I would obey her behest without reward.

As with the ancient Hebrew, citizenship meant knowledge of organic law and obedience to its behests.

He could hardly, under the circumstances, support Orange against her will, and he obeyed her behest.

Men attach themselves to a political party as to a religion, and yield blindly to its behests.

"Nay, but it is something," returned the other, as she speedily complied with her mistress's behest.

In due course he returned home, proud to show his wife that he had obeyed her parting behest.

It is a speculative study, seeking a rational account of the foundations of morality and behests of duty.

Uncle Timothy, bringing out chairs at her behest, paused and scanned the horizon with an experienced eye.

Perhaps time may show that in this visit you have performed the behest of her bitterest enemy.

They that hear it read, have sons and servants always obedient to them and doing their behests.

They came protesting they would henceforth be our slaves, ready, in all things, to obey our slightest behest.

Two young braves stole away into the pine woodland on some errand, at the behest of the chief.

The band ignored this behest, and gathered round him to ascertain the extent of his injury.

The others started obediently to yield to the detective's behest and leave him alone with his prisoner.

Their only share in public concerns lay in performing military service at the behest of their superiors.

What may not two such, animated by the soul of a third, and obeying his behests, accomplish?

Yet when he obeyed her tacit behest and asked her permission she was too frightened to refuse.

Will you use your influence with him that he may carry out the behests of the three Archbishops?

Ladies of honor were grouped at respective distances from their sovereign mistress ready to obey her slightest behest.

The behests of necessity overcome the strongest feelings of mortals, and even impart to weakness a morbid strength.

Your subconscious self will, after a while, carry out your behests without any conscious effort on your part.

We have a substantial interest in the East; it is a commanding interest, and its behest must be obeyed.

He had paid ten dollars for a reserved seat last week at the behest of the volatile Lady Patroness.

They had carried out the law's behest, and they would carry out the "remains" on their shoulders.

"You are bound by your oath to carry out the behests of the Tribunal, be they what they may."

Arthur growled something very deeply into his chest, but he checked his first impulse at her behest.

Matilda loaded her with behests and instructions and seemed appreciative of the intelligence with which they were received.

Never, never, never will he return; and I stand pledged by a sacred oath to fulfil his behest!

Everything was dragged forth to be displayed to them, attendants waited to leap forth to supply their smallest behest.

Secrets I have learned that will bind the hidden things of darkness, and bow them to my behest.

No, on the whole, it was better by far to obey her husband's behest; therefore, she started off.

Property is not an absolute right of the individual owner which the state is bound to maintain at his behest.

They sprang eagerly to obey his slightest behest, and the gratitude in their faces was pitiful to behold.

This proceeding naturally encouraged the hostility of the local officials and of the mob who executed their behests.

A stern behest is ever upon him, that he do nothing to degrade the real dignity of his spiritual being.

Against this behest sin those that love their goods too much, gold or silver, or other earthly things.

All his old instincts were still alive, only the bodily power to carry out their behests was gone.

They had surrendered themselves to the garden, they awaited in all calmness the behests of that tree of life.

Leave to me the pleasing task of informing him how quickly you fulfilled his behests to the last letter.

He instantly hastened back across the cloud bridge, and informed the fairy that her behest was obeyed.

It is the point at which humanity is organized under a moral constitution and the behests of moral law.

Their sphere was as unlimited as that of the consuls themselves; they were meant simply to obey his behests.

The other was the man who had afterwards chased me southward at the behest of the Duke of Guise.

The effect of this restriction, made obviously at the behest of some deep passion, was to make him suddenly sinister.

In the midst of sorrow, as in the midst of joy, the behests of their holy religion are never forgotten.

The mother seemed to be only there to obey the daughter's behests, and Cecilia was the most affectionate of masters.

The giant could not but perceive that his principal really was frantic, and hastened to obey his behests.

People then did not think much of a dying woman, and were in no special hurry to obey Herbert's behest.

This errand on which we are at present bound holds urgent need, else would we return at our King's behest.

There are others who would fain win her smiles, others who would be proud to do her lightest behest.

Then, too, Susan was over there, and Jimmy and Phil were going, without a moment's hesitation, at her behest!

This fact added not a little to the ill grace with which he prepared to obey the duke's behest.

His last behest, that the head of Yoritomo should be laid on his grave, nerved his successors to fresh efforts.

Sorrow not over my fate which I created for myself, as you know, at the strict behest of my conscience.

Evidently here was a conscientious official who was not to be precipitated into hasty action at the behest of the police.

That this maiden, even though a chief's daughter, should refuse his slightest behest never once entered his dull mind.

Does that not show that specialization is done, not in obedience to the behests of truth, but to those of interests?

And thus abiding by our sire's behest, and taking firm vows we entered a dreary forest never seen before.

At the behest of the White House, the Coast Guard also joined with the Navy in integrating its Women's Reserve.

As obedience to the behests of conscience has always yielded happiness and formed character, so disobedience has always destroyed manhood.

It excites them to persist, more boldly than ever, in the work of persecution, and these governments execute its behests.

While missing her father sorely in her sorrowful isolation, she realized that death had come at the behest of mercy.

He has become our most faithful servant who travels along the wires at our behest and obeys our every bidding.

It was curious, but she knew she could make him obey her slightest behest, big and strong as he was.

Act, and find a weight upon your genius heavier than all behests of duty, friendship, faith, and loyalty rolled in one!

A moment later, at her urgent behest, and in response to the Master's call, he returned as easily to the ring.

Nature awaits you, but only as a fair captive, ready to respond to your behests, to answer to the spring of your imaginings.

This they did with a will, as, indeed, they did all things at the behest of their much-respected chief.

Commonly at the behest of a minor official they were compelled to stay beyond their legitimate time without any pay whatever.

Shall I carry away your daughter, and in return will you, for gold, which I will bring you, do my behest?

Poor Kate went out, more from the habit of obedience than apparently to obey any such behest; but she went, nevertheless.

Faithful to the behest of their king in the midst of their misery and terror, they answered not a word.

Let Lucius say what he might, let this additional sorrow be ever so bitter, she could not obey her son's behests.

And he, who had come a long and arduous journey at the behest of love, now experienced an equally passionate hatred.

"I was coming to obey your behests, Lady Desmond," said Fitzgerald, trying to look and speak as though he were at his ease.

Shakespeare dealt with men, on paper, making them march this way or that at the behest of his immortal genius.

It would have been useless to tell him so, for he would not have obeyed the behest contained in such an assertion.

Here is our young friend, William Seymour, doubtless he will willingly perform your behest, and be back in a day or two.

Whatever she had said was sacred to the present temper of my imagination: her last behest I would have died to execute.

"I don't propose to stay out here and cool my heels in front of my sister's house at the behest of a stranger."

As little does it matter that we are also ignorant of the mode in which the mind's behests are communicated to the members.

And civil equality is the first principle of modern justice, the most pressing behest of the public morality of the age.

Had it not been for her own excitement, she must have noticed with what little enthusiasm he agreed to her behest.

Then the pastor, Leopold Lehmann, began, at the behest and at the expense of my wife, to deliver a memorial speech.

She stood up at the harsh behest, but she was trembling so much that her knees would scarcely support her.

For three months and more, I have obeyed your behest and have kept aloof from your house; but patience ceases to be a virtue.

As for her, the one clear thought in her mind was that she must obey Diana's last behest and keep silence.

"You have my permission to execute your father's behest," the Viceroy replied while his eyes were fixed on the face of the youth.

I have only one use for it; and if she requires it of me, it is a joy to yield it up at her behest.