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
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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
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 Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Who is it utters through the dark his hest So quickly, and will wait for no reply?
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
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
As Albornoz finished this epistle, he summoned his confidential attendant, a Spanish gentleman, who saw nothing in his noble birth that should prevent his fulfilling the various hests of the Cardinal.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
"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
Look now about thee, Kriemhild, / who may thy hests attend.
From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by George Henry Needler
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 James Legge
Venus, convey this monster fro the earth, That disobeyeth thus thy sacred hests!
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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