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Definition of Hests
1. hest [n] - See also: hest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hests
Literary usage of Hests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fox's Book of Martyrs: The Acts and Monuments of the Church by John Foxe, John Cumming (1844)
"And Lord, me thinketh that who so wole keepen thine hests, him needeth no gloses :
but ... they more glose thine hests, after their lining, other eisernen ..."
2. The World's Famous Orations. by Francis Whiting Halsey, William Jennings Bryan (1906)
"IP thou be a lord, look thou live a rightful life in thine own person, both anent
God and man, keeping the hests of God, doing the works of mercy, ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1889)
"... to break the ten hests.tt The Earldom of Envy and Ire he them granteth ...
of a popular association of fat with good temper. tt hests, commandments. ..."
4. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1893)
"A SHORT RULE OF LIFE If thou be a lord, look thou live a rightful life in thine
own person, both anent God and man, keeping the hests of God, ..."
5. Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church by Methodist Episcopal Church, Levi Scott (1878)
"... hests of heaven ohey, And devils at thy presence flee ... name i l.et hests
in heaven thy praises sing, ..."
6. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... and then they be cursed of God for breaking of his hests, and for they love
not Jesus Christ. And great vengeance cometh for maintaining of sin, ..."
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