behest
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Behest is debt, and I would hold it fain, All my behest; I can no better sayn.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
Behest of the cross 20:24 Material belief is slow to acknowledge what the spiritual fact implies.
From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker
The poem said: Imprisoned thus in my Witchy Wiles, Robbed of all hope, all food, all smiles, A Fearful Doom o'er-hangs thy Rest, Unless thou meet my Dread Behest!
From Fairy Prince and Other Stories by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
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Romeo and Juliet
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