Слово "bid". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

He had a very fine flock, and, while she was with them, he had been bid more for his wool than any body in the country.

and that company bid on, won and delivered on that contract.

Who'll bid more?

In one way, indeed, he bade fair to ruin us, for he kept on staying week after week, and at last month after month, so that all the money had been long exhausted, and still my father never plucked up the heart to insist on having more.

Miss Fitzgibbon, I think I should bid you good-night.

Then they seemed so familiar with French names and French authors: but my amazement reached its climax when Miss Temple asked Helen if she sometimes snatched a moment to recall the Latin her father had taught her, and taking a book from a shelf, bade her read and construe a page of Virgil; and Helen obeyed, my organ of veneration expanding at every sounding line.

All day long they played, and in the evening they came to the Giant to bid him good-bye.

He bade me go and leave the door wide open.

I was spared the trouble of answering, for Bessie seemed in too great a hurry to listen to explanations; she hauled me to the washstand, inflicted a merciless, but happily brief scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel; disciplined my head with a bristly brush, denuded me of my pinafore, and then hurrying me to the top of the stairs, bid me go down directly, as I was wanted in the breakfast-room.

If so, the new race had a right to bid for survival. And the old race called Man had a right to crush it if he could.

"What am I bid for this exceptional lot of Java coffee, twenty-two bags all told, which is now selling in the market for seven dollars and thirty-two cents a bag wholesale?

“Cease that chatter, blockhead! and do my bidding.”

Any more bids?

Margarita was already familiar with the sensation of flight, but the master was not, and he marvelled at how quickly they reached their goal, the one to whom he wished to bid farewell, because he had no one else to bid farewell to.

"What am I bid for this exceptional lot of Java coffee, twenty-two bags all told, which is now selling in the market for seven dollars and thirty-two cents a bag wholesale?

I do not see how one can calculate the time.' They talked desultorily for some minutes, then, without apparent reason, a yell from the telescreen bade them be silent.

Mrs. Barton Trafford had a flair, and she trusted her flair; her flair bade her wait.

You might not give Emma such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid; and if Weston had asked me to recommend him a wife, I should certainly have named Miss Taylor."

I stood on the altar steps and I bade them to come no farther.

On the third day the messenger came back again, and said, "I have not been able to find a single new name, but as I came to a high mountain at the end of the forest, where the fox and the hare bid each other good night, there I saw a little house, and before the house a fire was burning, and round about the fire quite a ridiculous little man was jumping:

He bade me tell you.

I'd come and pretend to myself that I was the man who was going to bid for Gipsy's Acre!

He avoided tight places and always backed out of it when they bade fair to surround him.

'I want to bid farewell to the city,' the master cried to Azazello, who rode at their head.