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So the most degraded person in the world can come to God and say, “Just as I am without one plea, but that thy blood was shed for me, and that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come.”
FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010
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For what will spiteful tongues say of me, when thou, my mother, who more than all others fearest for my safety, bidst me undertake this enterprise?
The Suppliants 2008
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For what will spiteful tongues say of me, when thou, my mother, who more than all others fearest for my safety, bidst me undertake this enterprise?
The Suppliants 2008
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I shall certainly be able to perform whatever thou bidst. '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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'Dreadful, O Queen, is the woe thou bidst me recall, how the Grecians pitiably overthrew the wealth and lordship of Troy; and I myself saw these things in all their horror, and I bore great part in them.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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'Mid ruins heaped around, thou bidst thy votarists wake.
Zophiel A Poem Maria Gowen Brooks
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I shall certainly be able to perform whatever thou bidst. '
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Add yet one to those gifts of thine, to all the riches thou bidst us send or promise to the Dardanians, most gracious of kings, but one; let no man's passion overbear thee from giving thine own daughter to an illustrious son and a worthy marriage, and binding this peace by perpetual treaty.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Thou bidst to earthly eyes their sky-dipt vestments wave.
Zophiel A Poem Maria Gowen Brooks
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"Ha! Thou bidst me be quiet, _sale embusqué_?" he taunted.
The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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