Seeing the danger of our party, I leaped to the bulwarks, and hailing my deliverer in Spanish, bade him desist.— Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
At Pallas' town Arriv'd, Triptolemus the car ascends By her commission'd;--bade to spread the seed Entrusted: part on ground untill'd before And part on land which long had fallow laid O'er Europe now, and Asia's lands, the youth Sublimely sails, and reaches Scythia's clime Where Lyncus rul'd.— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
To Bedlem he bade--that we should gang: I am full feared--that we tarry too lang 3rd Shepherd.— "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
Dragging it out, he continued to issue his orders for getting the galley off the shore--bade a seaman swim with a line to the moorings, and angrily rebuked those who, believing destruction to be inevitable, entreated him to strike his flag.— The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century
Then Metaneira made a potion and gave it to the Goddess as she bade, and Lady Deo took it and made libation, and to them fair-girdled Metaneira said Hail, lady, for methinks thou art not of mean parentage, but goodly born, for grace and honour shine in thine eyes as in the eyes of doom- dealing kings.— The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
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