hest
noun
hests
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pluralof hest.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
We are enslaved to tyrants' hests, Who have our freedom won: Our fainting hope now only rests On thy succeeding son.
From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Charles Mackay
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 Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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
