behoved

• That's how people speak to me I thocht ye bude (behoved) to be somebody by ordinar', my leddy! —  Malcolm
• Ye oucht to ha' gane in at ance There was a half-dizzen o' fowk stan'in' aboot, and I bude (behoved) to speik whan I was spoken till But ye budena stop an' mak' ae fule mair Isna that ca'in' names, grannie Deed, laddie, I doobt ye hae me there. —  Robert Falconer
• I am only miserable that I can't prove the contrary Suppose there war a God, Mr. Ericson, do ye think ye bude (behoved) to be able to pruv that? —  Robert Falconer
• The English, he said, were hated and abhorred by the natives of Holland and Zeeland, and it behoved —  History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
• And what could I say to her, but that she behoved to come and speak to Mr. Saddletree when he was at hame? —  The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete

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