"Behoove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... replied Father Salvierderra. "It would have been stranger if you had not acquired the taste, thus drawing it in with the mother's milk. It would behoove mothers to remember this far more than ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... my mind consenting to the magic of Douglas' vision. I did not relish the idea of England's surrendering Oregon; but, on the other hand, since my fortunes were cast in the United States, did it not behoove me to draw upon the country's increasing prosperity and to help to increase it? Texas did not matter. I did not fancy the institution of slavery. It grated upon my sensibilities; but I had a very slight understanding of it in the concrete. I was glad that England was rid of it. I had never ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters
... rejoined. "And ye do it weel. It doesna behoove me to complain, sic a michty fine ...
— A Daughter of the Snows • Jack London |
