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Definition of Behaves
1. behave [v] - See also: behave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behaves
Literary usage of Behaves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"CHAPTER X. MAGGIE behaves WORSE THAN SHE EXPECTED. THE startling object which
thus made an epoch for uncle Pullet was no other than little Lucy, ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"... MAGGIE behaves WORSE THAN SHE EXPECTED. THE startling object which thus made
an epoch for uncle Pullet was no other than little Lucy, with one side of ..."
3. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1849)
"... and he knew well that, by yielding the behaves"' Chief Clerkship to Buckingham,
Ijp might easily have escaped with fir'»- further molestation, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... a fool, an ass, he looks, how like a clown he behaves himself! "she will not
come near him by her own good-will, ..."
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