bidden

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As hundreds of peaceful protesters marched through the streets of downtown Detroit last week, there was a sense of resigned inevitability surrounding Jay Bidden and K.K.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2020

Bidden and unbidden, Jimmy Carter has also stepped in at crucial moments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bidden by Stobs to seek Buccleuch, Telfer runs to Teviot, to Coultartcleugh, some four miles above Branksome.

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew

Thrice Bidden to Love "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."—JOHN xiii.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

Bidden to take the dead stoker's place, "he was just fool enough to do what he was told to do."

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)