bidden
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When and if you are bidden to the journey by a POC who has granted you a brief visit to the darker side of human nature, explore safely.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2020
Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, and many others may have bidden the show farewell, but Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, and, yes, Ice-T are killing it these days.
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2014
Mrs. Hinderer did as she was bidden and is now, from all reports, still domesticated upon the banks of the Kankakee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Mussolini had bidden his proud followers to "lift up their standards, their weapons and their hearts and greet the new empire which after 15 centuries again reappears upon the fateful hills of Rome."
From Time Magazine Archive
Gawaine observed sarcastically: “It will be safe enough for you, my mannie. We ken the King has bidden Lancelot not hurt ye.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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