When Ambrose replied with dignity that it did not behoove the state to interfere in matters of doctrine, soldiers were sent to enforce the imperial will.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
"It did not behoove them," he said, "to interfere in the concerns of the government, and this previous agreement of votes was an illegal and culpable assumption, in the guilt of which he would not participate;"-a declaration which broke up the meeting without any conclusion being come to.
"The Revolt of The Netherlands, Book II."
Frederich Schiller
Well not to be a dupe in this world of a day, But not to be one in the world that hath no end, That which it doth behoove the soul to be and stay Is merciful, not merciless,-deluded friend.
"Poems of Paul Verlaine"
Paul Verlaine