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Hest  n.  Command; precept; injunction. (Archaic) See Behest. "At thy hest." "Let him that yields obey the victor's hest." "Yet I thy hest will all perform, at full."






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"Hest" Quotes from Famous Books



... not thee now, Dorothy. I never did love thee, and thou dost right to despise me, for I am unworthy. I would I were dead. Even the king's majesty hath been no whit the better for me, but rather the worse; for another man,—one, I mean, who was not mounted on a stolen mare—would have performed his hest unhindered of foregone fault.' ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald

... days of May, 1917, Allied aeroplanes were especially active in Belgium. On May 26 and 30, 1917, Hest, Blankenberghe, Zeebrugge, and Ghent were attacked and considerable damage was inflicted on railway stations, docks, and other buildings of ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... The sway, revenue, execution of the rest] [W: of th' hest] I do not see any great difficulty in the words, execution of the rest, which are in both the old copies. The execution of the rest is, I suppose, all the other business. Dr. Warburton's own explanation of his amendment confutes it; if hest be a ...
— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... which happened besyde them. God will even come over the hil at the back of the kirk their, and cry wt a hy woice, Angel of the church of Maln[moon]sy, compeir; than Ile answer, Lord, behold thy servant what hes thou to say to him. Then God wil say, Wheir are the souls thou hest won by your ministery heir thir 17 years? He no wal what to answer to this, for, Sirs, I cannot promise God one of your souls: yet Ile say, behold my own Soul and my crooked Bessies (this was his daughter), and wil not this be a sad matter. Yet this was not so ill as Mr. John ...
— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder



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