1 As she had hoped, he was still in the front driveway bidding good-by to departing matrons and children.
2 His face was as drawn as when he came down from bidding Melanie good-by, but she could read nothing in his eyes.
3 When she was not doing Scarlett's bidding, her rosary beads were always in her hands and her lips moving in prayers for her mother and for Brent Tarleton.
4 Scarlett O'Hara, with the County at her feet, a hundred slaves to do her bidding, the wealth of Tara like a wall behind her and doting parents anxious to grant any desire of her heart.
5 Dorset, as if in obedience to Lily's imperative bidding, had actually returned in time for a late dinner on the yacht.
6 But, at his superior's introduction of him to Ahab, he politely bowed, and straightway went on to do his captain's bidding.
7 Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter was at once commanded to do Queequeg's bidding, whatever it might include.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin. 8 "Aye, aye, sir," and straightway Starbuck did Ahab's bidding, and once more Ahab swung on high.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 9 Finally, the prisoner made it understood that his vocabulary was inadequate, and there stepped up a dapper young man with waxed mustaches, bidding him speak in any language he knew.
10 I was sent by Major Effingham, at Sir William's own bidding, to outflank the French, and carry the tidings of their disaster across the portage, to the fort on the Hudson.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 11 It would have been more wonderful had he spoken without a bidding.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 12 A place was cleared, and the bidding began.
13 The bidding for the poor old creature was summary.
14 He calls the just to His side, bidding them enter into the kingdom, the eternity of bliss prepared for them.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 15 He bowed his head upon his hands, bidding his heart be meek and humble that he might be like those who knelt beside him and his prayer as acceptable as theirs.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3