It rymed so well with sheen and I thought it meant to behold or see but it means to think.
No stranger eyes must behold these sacred productions.
Suddenly abandoning all imposture, he transgresses openly, brazenly; and, snatching a bit of hemp cries: 'Behold me; this is real human nature.
Then the revivalist began: 'Behold us, O dread God, suppliants for Thy mercy—' His voice was rich and full, but at the same time sharp and decisive.
With solemn force pressed on my heart, the expectation of mystery breaking up: hitherto I had seen this spectre only through a glass darkly; now was I to behold it face to face.
Not by the vague folds, sinister and conspirator-like, of his soot-dark paletôt were the outlines of his person obscured; on the contrary, his figure (such as it was, I don't boast of it) was well set off by a civilized coat and a silken vest quite pretty to behold.
' Such are your own and your friends' impressions; and behold!
Paul; I think it was rather pleasant than otherwise, to behold him set up there, fierce and frank, dark and candid, testy and fearless, as when regnant on his estrade in class.
Behold!
When I re-entered the schoolroom, behold M.
For as I arranged my position in this hope, behold, on the green space between the divided and looped-up curtains, hung a broad, gilded picture-frame enclosing a portrait.
She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five.
—how I feared to behold vacancy, or the dragon aforesaid!
Lo, and behold!
Behold!
But lo and behold, Mistress Blythe, Henry looks up at me, with those bright old black eyes of his in his wizened face and says, says he, 'Tell me something I don't know, Jim Boyd, if you want to give me information.
He turned Methodist just because the Presbyterian choir happened to be singing 'Behold the bridegroom cometh' for a collection piece when him and Margaret walked up the aisle the Sunday after they were married.
The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals.
Now, fully revealed by the fire and candlelight, I was amazed, more than ever, to behold the transformation of Heathcliff.
He ran to the window and I to the door, just in time to behold the two Lintons descend from the family carriage, smothered in cloaks and furs, and the Earnshaws dismount from their horses: they often rode to church in winter.
