behooves

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"The more the bold, the bustling, and the bad, Press to usurp the reins of power, the more Behooves it virtue, with indignant zeal, To check their combination."

From Elsie's Motherhood by Finley, Martha

Behooves it to say a word or two of the materials of the typical ball-supper?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

Behooves it thee then to show in what manner I lost it.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides