Read full poem →As Cellide had before used a light behaviour ia trial of his virtue, upon
finding it only a trial, and receiving from her this virtuous lecture, he
Dictionary Entry
The way a living creature behaves or acts.
In a Sentence
“She can't stop the strange behaviour because she has OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder).”
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. behaviourbehaviour humanbehaviour socialbehaviour goodbehaviour sexual
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Poetry examples for “behaviour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →sins provoked their censure, they even reproved the
indecencies of dress, and indelicacies of behaviour.
But we hear not of one poet or actor who received any
Read full poem →He's cruel, and too much his grief doth favour,
That seeks the conquest by her loose behaviour.
Poor wretch,[260] I saw when thou didst think I slumbered;
Read full poem →For I confess, if that might merit favour,
Here I display my lewd and loose behaviour.
I loathe, yet after that I loathe I run:
Read full poem →Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely
behaviour
Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
Read full poem →_The Propætides, for their impudent behaviour, being turned into stone
by Venus, Pygmalion, Prince of Cyprus, detested all women for their
Read full poem →Fronts the north-wind in waistcoat gray,
As if to shame my weak behaviour;
I greeted loud my little saviour,
Read full poem →Fergus Grame of Sowport, as one of the chief men of that clan, became
security to Lord Scroope for the good behaviour of his friends
and dependants, 8th January, 1602.--_Introduction to History of
Read full poem →Owen survives in his poems; any superficial impressions of his
personality, any records of his conversation, behaviour, or appearance,
would be irrelevant and unseemly. The curiosity which demands such
Read full poem →He lends thee virtue, and he stole that word
From thy behaviour; beauty doth he give,
And found it in thy cheek: he can afford