Bidding in example sentence

He told me with a great concern, and I thought I saw tears stand in his eyes, that he would not touch it; that he abhorred the thoughts of stripping me and make me miserable; that, on the contrary, he had fifty guineas left, which was all he had in the world, and he pulled it out and threw it down on the table, bidding me take it, though he were to starve for want of it.

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I don't know, but in fact it is a fully living brain that we have managed to keep alive to do our bidding.

But most species actually use insects to do their bidding, and that's more intelligent in a way, because the pollen, they don't need so much of it.

They have to try and attract pollinators to do their bidding.

And just as flowers spend a lot of effort trying to get pollinators to do their bidding, they've also somehow managed to persuade us to plant great fields full of them and give them to each other at times of birth and death, and particularly at marriage, which, when you think of it, is the moment that encapsulates the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another.

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