hests
- plural of hest.
Example Sentences
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Venus, convey this monster fro the earth, That disobeyeth thus thy sacred hests!
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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
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)
Much do the hests of an old hogherd weigh against the wiles of a young maid!'
From The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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
