Attempt, in headlines

Usage examples of bid.

So I will but bid thee be comforted and abide in thy love for the living and the dead.

But since we must needs part hastily, this at least I bid you, that ye abide with me for to-night, and the banquet in the great pavilion.

It would have been a bad notion to put him aboard one of those frigates.

Good or bad, saint or killer, Abraxas had taken their minds and swallowed them whole.

StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.

Baron was always very respectful to Mr Aching since Granny had died two years ago, calling him the finest shepherd in these hills, and was generally held by the people in the village to be not too bad these days.

Azareel limping, but supporting Acies who seemed to have had a bad time of it.

It still reverberated, though Ilna had noticed that the acoustics of this great square room were wretchedly bad.

Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.

There was a legal adage that hard cases made for bad law, but the books could not anticipate all the things that people did.

I was struck by the dread in her voice, which seemed to be more fear of Aden himself than a reluctance to share the bad news.

I am quite transported at the thought that ere long, perhaps very soon, I shall bid an eternal adieu to all the pains and uneasinesses, and disquietudes of this weary life.

I have, for I have come to warn you that I bid adieu to your house, and -- and to you.

He arose from the oaken bench on which he was seated in the chapel, and wished, as the priest had done, to go and bid a last adieu to the double grave which contained his two lost friends.

I have now nothing further to do, my lord, than to wish you joy of your liberation, and to bid you adieu for ever.