behove

How to use behove in a sentence

• The obligation of such, therefore, even as those of the covenants specified, behove to continue.

  The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham

• The very mode in which it would behove her to dress herself to go out to an ordinary dinner party, was almost unknown to her.

  Miss Mackenzie | Anthony Trollope

• The Cid replied, that it would ill behove him to counsel his sovereign to contradict the will of the late King.

  The History of Chivalry, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Mills

• It will behove me, perhaps, to apply to that dear uncle, if a proper occasion offer.

  Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) | Samuel Richardson

• If he goes to these kinsfolk, as I believe it will be well for him to do, it will behove him to go right humbly and reverently.

  The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn | Evelyn Everett-Green