hest
Americannoun
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hests
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hest
before 1150; Middle English hest ( e ), Old English hǣs; akin to hātan to bid
Example Sentences
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I am convinced that a sufficient number of supporters of the idea will be found in the United States to erect a tomb where his body may hest throughout the years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Americana is the day's rage, but the hest of it needs no rewriting.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a weak and toneless voice she kept on telling them to do as they thought hest.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
Far in the van be Níla's post, To scan the pathway for the host, And let thy bravest and thy best, A hundred thousand, wait his hest.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Then at her mother's hest, the maid adored The spirit of each high ancestral lord, Nor failed she next the noble dames to greet, And give due honour to their reverend feet.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
Lords' hests must be listened to with a quick ear.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Therefore, she had to suffer people like Mrs. O'Connor, not gladly, but with the resignation due to the hests of Providence which one must obey but may legitimately criticise.
From Mary, Mary by Padraic Colum
"O ladye, I am thy own true knighte, Thy hests for to obaye; And mought I hope to winne thy love!"
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
"Dutiful to the foolish parents first, Submissive next to the bad husband,—nay, Tolerant of those meaner miserable That did his hests, eked out the dole of pain ";C C: Ibid., 1052-1055.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
The soul is worthily lodged in these powerful frames; and she has the ease and dignity of one accustomed to command, and to command servants able to obey her hests.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller
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