Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bid me not resign love...
...bid thee to fear not, but openly speak...
...straightway bid you hold your tongue...
...MEPH. I bid thee leave, and follow my command...
...ascended the steps, and rang the bell. The door was opened by one of those giddy girls, and I began : "Daughter of the fairest race of women on this continent, do I judge aright, after the conglomerate circumlocutions of this morning, that before me stands the maiden who will bid me rest my weary limbs in her father's palatial halls?" She replied with a disdainful glance : "Oh! I know yez, yez be one of them air students from Cambridgeport;" and turning to her nice little pet dog, she said, "Seize him, Roger." I started for the street. He seized...