hest
Americannoun
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
Sugríva, when the rite was done, Obeyed the hest of Raghu's son, Prince Angad to his breast he strained, And partner of his sway ordained.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
He spoke: and swift at Ráma's hest Up sprang the Vánars from their rest, The mandate of the king obeyed And sought the forest's mighty shade.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
High Virtue's hest is eloquent With spur and not with martingall: Sufficeth not thou'rt continent: BE COURTEOUS, BRAVE, AND LIBERAL.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
I in the wilds my days will spend Till twice seven years have reached an end, Then with great joy will come again, And faithful to thy hests remain.”
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Amend yet for my sake, It is better betime than too late; How say you? will you God's hests fulfil?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
Venus, convey this monster fro the earth, That disobeyeth thus thy sacred hests!
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
He who vanquishes yet still Keeps from his foes apart; He whose hests men most fulfil Yet humbly plies his art.
From The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics by Legge, James
To me, O saints, ye need not sue: I wait the hests of all of you.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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