Bidden

Examples

• But all days come that are to be; and the marriage-day was to be, and it came; and with it came all the Barnacles who were bidden to the feast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What if, when he had bidden May Welland to open hers, they could only look out blankly at blankness? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Holy men have bidden penitents like you to hasten their path upward by penance, self-denial, and difficult good works. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Here, clearly, was a new legatee; else why was he bidden as a mourner? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the first event he had bidden an eternal farewell to open-hearted converse, and entire sympathy with the companion of his life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was no one bidden to the marriage but Mr. Lorry; there was even to be no bridesmaid but the gaunt Miss Pross. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Then to patriotic zeal, to the arts, to reputation, to enduring fame, to the name of country, we had bidden farewell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Why had she bidden him to come early if she was having people to dine? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The old man, never bidden to sit down, stood with an earnest hand laid on the back of the young man's easy chair. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was into the drawing-room that he was thus bidden. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• When he struck the door with his hand, his foot followed so quickly on his hand, that he was in the room before he was bidden to enter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I do as I am bidden by my principal. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Having opened the garden-gate, he delivers the key into his Lady's hands at her request and is bidden to go back. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Typist: Suzy