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Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Dead in Law; nay kept alive fifty years yet, for their accursed behoof!

If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this.

Alas, that is a Government existing there only for its own behoof: without right, except possession; and now also without might.

This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings For your behoof.

He rather looked upon it as one of those beautiful dispensations which are inscrutably brought about for the behoof and advantage of good men.

We have seen that everything which the understanding draws from itself, without borrowing from experience, it nevertheless possesses only for the behoof and use of experience.

Yet this may I do for you; tomorrow will I let sing a mass in St. Mary's Church on your behoof.

The Electoral Committee of Macon, though but a Committee, goes the length of hanging, for its own behoof, as many as twenty.

An insolvent certificate-holder does not by his declared bankruptcy, or by signing a trust deed for behoof of his creditors, divest himself of his certificate.

Every thread of silk in the rich vestments seems only a provision from the worms that spin, for the behoof of worms that propagate in sepulchres.

Alone in his islands, it was he who dealt and profited; he was the planter and the merchant; and his subjects toiled for his behoof in servitude.

Thus they part, and Vholes, left alone, employs himself in carrying sundry little matters out of his diary into his draft bill book for the ultimate behoof of his three daughters.

--He will have it that HAMLET is a ghoststory, John Eglinton said for Mr Best's behoof.

It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne.

He put a paper in my hand, that same mealy-mouthed, false-faced paper that was printed since in the pamphlet "by a bystander," for behoof (as the title says) of James's "poor widow and five children."

The last of the Bruce lairds of Fingask was Laurence Bruce, whose "pecuniary involvements necessitated the sale of the estate for the behoof of his creditors in the year 1671".

'Yes, of course you did,' said Mrs. Raddle, backing gradually to the door, and raising her voice to its loudest pitch, for the special behoof of Mr. Raddle in the kitchen.

Danton and Lacroix, when it was they that were Commissioners, would needs join Belgium to France;--of which Dumouriez might have made the prettiest little Duchy for his own secret behoof!

They had parents in India--that much Octavian had learned in the neighbourhood; the children, beyond grouping themselves garment-wise into sexes, a girl and two boys, carried their lifestory no further on his behoof.

'Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood, That we must curb it upon others' proof; To be forbod the sweets that seem so good, For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.

"Yes, young man," said he, releasing the handle of the article in question, retiring a step or two from my table, and speaking for the behoof of the landlord and waiter at the door, "I will leave that teapot alone.

He is heartily welcome to it; nor is it the only instance, by many, in which the great French romancer has exercised the privilege of commanding genius by confiscating the intellectual property of less famous people to his own use and behoof.

If I could have supposed that my aunt had recounted these particulars for my especial behoof, and as a piece of confidence in me, I should have felt very much distinguished, and should have augured favourably from such a mark of her good opinion.

The old Friend of Men has his own divorce case too; and at times, 'his whole family but one' under lock and key: he writes much about reforming and enfranchising the world; and for his own private behoof he has needed sixty Lettres-de-Cachet.