Noun, : The money was spent for his own behoof.    From Dictionary.com. 

If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

The domain formerly occupied by the Laird was taken on his behoof by his brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference

‘I was hammering at that for months together,’ Bishop recalled, ‘for J.F. Bentley’s behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble Simplicity and the Liturgiologist Edmund Bishop] Reference

Ayala was to be seduced into coming again to Stalham if possible -- but specially on the Colonel's behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayala's Angel] Reference

Our relation to the physical side of things concerns us intimately; it is for our behoof to understand it.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Noon of Science] Reference

If his majesty's clemency be enlisted, notwithstanding, in their behoof, they may chance to get off with the galleys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

"Girl number twenty unable to define a horse!" said Mr. Gradgrind, for the general behoof of all the little pitchers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Girls from Dickens] Reference

Moir's poems, which he edited for behoof of the poet's family, under the generous instructions of the Messrs Blackwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

Every part of the bargain or trick of the game is by the main operators well known and availed of for their own behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

If we can trust any guide whom Cyrus may vouchsafe to us, why not order Cyrus at once to occupy the pass on our behoof?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anabasis] Reference

It was not one with whom diplomacy would much avail, or who was likely to have money ready under his glove for her behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Claverings] Reference

Desmond saw at once that the Armenian was taking advantage of the disturbance to make away with the goods for his own behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

Nothing has occurred to call for a remodelling of the ordinary moral and spiritual machinery for the special behoof of Negroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference

Hence they are said to be his kingdoms, Rev.xi. 15; that is, to be disposed of for the behoof of his interest, rule, and dominion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

It never occurred either to her or to her stepmother that any of her earnings were to belong to Janetta, or be used for her behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

People, considering the corruption of the Times, of as great use and behoof as may be, mens minds having been before so poysoned by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)] Reference

By scattering food on the earth, morning and evening, for (the behoof of) dogs and Chandalas and birds, should a person perform the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

To this exhortation, which seemed intended for her sole behoof, the lady answered by an inclination of her head, more humble than Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of Montrose] Reference

Taking my lonely dinner in a tavern of the suburbs, the waiter handed me a newspaper, which he had rescued for my behoof from the hands of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference

He rather looked upon it as one of those beautiful dispensations which are inscrutably brought about for the behoof and advantage of good men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnaby Rudge] Reference

Were they bloodhounds for tracking criminals, or hounds kept for the special behoof and pleasure of the "Lord Mair, Aldermen, and Comen Coûsel?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850] Reference

Every thread of silk in the rich vestments seems only a provision from the worms that spin, for the behoof of worms that propagate in sepulchres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pictures from Italy] Reference

Hauk Erlendsson, an Icelander of distinction in the fourteenth century, made a collection of treatises in one volume for his own amusement and behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

'Professor,' I conceived I had a perfect right and title to it, by virtue of my poverty, and so appropriated it for the behoof and advantage of Number One.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

What struggle might be made to prevent the accomplishment of so base a marriage must be effected for the sake of the family, and not on his own special behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

The Duke had not condescended to accord the honour of his little bow of graciousness to some little flattering morsel of wit which the lady had uttered on his behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phineas Finn] Reference

It behoves him who wishes to love to fear also; for if he does not he cannot love; but let him fear her only whom he loves; and in her behoof let him be thoroughly bold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

Is it not a cruel thing to forbid men to affect those things, which they conceive to agree best with their own natures, and to tend most to their own proper good and behoof?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

Harmony and melody here were alike divine in themselves, and were more than respectably rendered, and he sat and suffered under them in his young friend's behoof like a hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aunt Rachel] Reference

He uses for his own behoof the wand with which he touches everything, turning it into a wonder, and thus enhances the pleasure of loving by the glorious glamour of the ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

‘Yes, of course you did,’ said Mrs. Raddle, backing gradually to the door, and raising her voice to its loudest pitch, for the special behoof of Mr. Raddle in the kitchen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference

A famous dry-goods store lately startled the shopping community of Paris by opening a free restaurant, a billiard-hall and a reading-room for the use and behoof of its customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference

The moon rose, waxing or waning, as if for its behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down the Ravine] Reference

'Perhaps here and there he might offend Cecilia's taste,' Beauchamp pursued for her behoof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference