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Sentences starting with command

Command the just respect of all your fellow-voyagers, even though you fail to win their friendly regard. [5]
Command the head butler not to stint the wine, so that the guards may give us no trouble. [10]
Command me when and how you will. [11]

Sentences ending with command

I am at your command. [2]
He advises it, you understand-he does not command. [10]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
She could not yet feel any impulse of affection towards her, and she did not as yet understand that what was required of her was the one gift which the best will, the most loving heart in the world, could not offer at a command. [10]
Then came the word of command. [2]
Our council, which will meet in a few days, can only determine how, and not whether we shall fulfil his command. [10]
Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
My works showed what a despot could do with the resources of a kingdom at his command. [5]
By Mithras, it was with a bleeding heart that I committed this wicked deed, but I did it as a faithful servant in obedience to the king's command. [10]
Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. [7]

Short sentences using command

You shall command us. [10]
Clark had command of her. [11]
This command was obeyed. [5]
Hast forgot the King's command? [5]
By command of King Cambyses. [10]
My father was in command. [11]
He can command her interest. [11]
He took entire command. [5]
It is a command! [5]
By the King's command! [5]

Sentences containing command two or more times

As to General Wool's command, I understand it is doing for you precisely what a like number of your own would have to do if that command was away. [7]
To understand in what this dependence consists it is necessary to reinstate another omitted condition of every command proceeding not from the Deity but from a man, which is, that the man who gives the command himself takes part in the event. [2]
By direction of the President, it is ordered that Major-General McClellan be relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac, and that Major-General Burnside take the command of that army. [7]
This relation of the men who command to those they command is what constitutes the essence of the conception called power. [2]
John Porter be relieved from command of the corps he now commands in said army, and that Major-General Hooker take command of said corps. [7]
Major-General McClellan having personally taken the field at the head of the Army of the Potomac, until otherwise ordered he is relieved from the command of the other military departments, he retaining command of the Department of the Potomac. [7]
When I am in command I treat you as a guest; I try to make you feel at home; when you are in command you treat me as an intruder, you make me feel unwelcome. [5]
The New Cure could command their obedience, but he could not command their love and confidence until he had earned them. [11]
Reinstating the first condition omitted, that of time, we see that no command can be executed without some preceding order having been given rendering the execution of the last command possible. [2]
Restoring the essential condition of relation between those who command and those who execute, we find that by the very nature of the case those who command take the smallest part in the action itself and that their activity is exclusively directed to commanding. [2]

More example sentences with the word command in them

If you command your staff to have this posted as a proclamation throughout the island, it will do as much good as a thousand soldiers. [11]
True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
But see, if you will let a poor man speak his mind, if I were you I'd not impose the command on Mr. [11]
General Grant wishes you to remain in command of the department, and I do not wish to order otherwise. [7]
And I command you to assign a place in London whence you may be reached. [9]
I cannot give you a new command, because we have no forces except such as already have commanders. [7]
I do not yet see how I could profit by changing the command of the Army of the Potomac; and if I did, I should not wish to do it by accepting the resignation of your commission. [7]
Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
How gladly she would have gone among these blinded mortals and exhorted them to obey with fresh faith and confidence the command of the Lord and of her brother. [10]
And indeed she would have done so when war was declared and Philip received his new command, but that she had wished the announcement to come from him. [11]
The chief-priest was wont to bear himself stoutly in the field, and now he gives up the command because a dying woman touches his heart. [10]
Leave this spot, woman, I command you, in right of my sacred office. [10]
The weary old woman had wanted to return home long before, but the command of the grand chamberlain compelled her to wait for Barbara and accompany her the short distance to the house. [10]
He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
None may palter with the King's command, or fit it to his ease, where it doth chafe, with deft evasions. [5]
He came charged with the commission to convey the artist, in the carriage of the gray-haired comrade of Alexander, to the neighbouring city of Pithom, where Philippus, by the King's command, was now residing. [10]
He spelt Command with a large C, and when he inspected, his jacks stood to attention like man-o'-war's men. [9]
He does not wish to command in the field, though he has more military knowledge than some who do. [7]
That is His will, and if He requires you to serve Him, you must follow us and, in case of war, command the men of our people. [10]
These men, of whom very few could read and write, had at their command all the most effective verses of their poets having thousands of lines stored in their minds. [10]
It was this which filled her eyes with tears, and sincere sorrow trembled in her voice as she replied: "Thou hast required the better half of my life at my hand; but thou hast but to command, and I to obey. [10]
On Morgan's command, where it is now sent, as I understand, depends the question whether the enemy will get to the Ohio River in another place. [7]
One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first colored regiment, "If he accepts it I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot. [7]
And what looks, what language he had at command, when he desired to put an end to my jealous complaints! [10]
Sally was amazed --what command of himself he must have! [5]
A thousand men were mine to command, but I came alone. [11]
From thence I went on to Pelusium in the company of some stragglers from the Asiatic army, who now and then allowed me a seat on their horses, and here I heard that you had accepted a high command in Cambyses' army. [10]
In a few weeks you would in any case have left the college, and by the king's command have transferred your blooming life, health, and strength to the exercising ground of the chariot-brigade. [10]
A general who was standing by the guns shouted some words of command to the officer, and the latter ran back again with his men. [2]
This at last was so evident that the good brother advised him, and the advice was in the nature of a command in his order, to retire for a while, and then take up his work in a fresh field. [4]
By command, Sunday-school was privileged to spread over into the week. [5]
D. D. Porter was placed in command of the steamer Powhatan, and Captain Samuel Mercer was detached therefrom, by my special order, and neither of them is responsible for any apparent or real irregularity on their part or in connection with that vessel. [7]
Presently a command was given, and immediately all living creatures vanished from the steps. [5]
A mutual agreement was entered into between the Governor and the old Indian fighter in command of the Western Department, to respect each other. [9]
Here a fire was crackling on the hearth, refreshments were laid out, and the major in command rose from his book to greet me. [9]
Mr. Jeff Davis was constantly writing him to take command of a corps in the confederate army, but Col. [5]
Behind these two was carried Rudyard Byng, who could command the less certain concentration of a heart. [11]
Think of it--it was by command of that Italian loafer yonder on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assembled there; and the kings and emperors that were entering the church from a side street were there by his will. [5]
Now an Eletto was again to be chosen, and whoever was elected would have command of at least three thousand men, and possibly more, as it was expected that other regiments would join the insurrection. [10]
But suddenly there was a rush from the Residency Square, and thirty men, under the command of Cumner, rode in with sabres drawn. [11]
I remember how warmly he praised Confucius's command not to love our fellow-men but to respect them, and how sensible and beautiful it seemed to me, too, in those days. [10]
Sunday morning her Voices or some instinct gave her a warning, and she sent Dunois to Blois to take command of the army and hurry it to Orleans. [5]
You know Cambyses' violent temper so well; how could you so wickedly disobey his express command? [10]
Just such another vessel Philip would command. [11]
But for the very reason that he has hitherto obeyed the command, he must not now seek to destroy what we have commenced under the guidance of the Most High. [10]
You are my very own; you belong to me only, and not to yourself; and I desire, I command you to yield to my first request. [10]
And not less various than their aspect were the tongues of the allied troops--but all obedient to the king's word of command. [10]
The Almighty shows us the way, and every one must hasten, in His name and by the command of Moses. [10]
This he charges upon the "hard-dealing of the President," the rest of the Council being diversely affected through his audacious command. [4]
He was practising upon me to see if there was any hope of his being able to read the document to his prayer-meeting with anything like a decent command over his feelings. [5]
Ingolby's hand shot up above them with a gesture of command. [11]
They command an uninterrupted view of--of over the way, and they are within one minute's walk of--of the corner of the street. [12]
These were also under the command of a kinsman of Pango Dooni. [11]
No sooner was Uncle Tom out of the house in the morning than Anne Rory marched into the sitting-room and took command, and turned it, into a dressmaking establishment. [9]
Having seen the two serving-men dispose, in a convenient place, the refreshment which Lempriere's appetite compelled, the fool took command of the occasion and made the two sit upon a bank, while he prepared the repast. [11]
Herdegen, who had turned pale, struggled to command himself. [10]
The blare of trumpets, roll of drums, and shouts of command echoed from the rocky shores. [10]
The blare of trumpets and a loud shout of command roused her from this joyless reverie. [10]
He had already tried to make the King steal, and failed; but there would be no more trouble of that sort, now, for of course the King would not dream of defying a distinct command delivered directly from head-quarters. [5]
Barclay de Tolly tried to command the army in the best way, because he wished to fulfill his duty and earn fame as a great commander. [2]
In this strong town the Turks had shut up the garrison under command of Governor Ebersbraught so closely that it was without intelligence or hope of succor. [4]
Here is a town of twelve or thirteen thousand population, with electric lighted streets, and with blocks of buildings which are stately enough, and also architecturally fine enough, to command respect in any city. [5]
She at once took command of the situation. [4]
I at once took command of the enterprise, saying firmly at the same time that I would shoot the first man who disobeyed my orders. [11]
When General Curtis took command of the department, Mr. Dick, against whom I never knew anything to allege, had general charge of this system. [7]
Who makes it too late when I command? [11]
The Ionian Greeks too had gone to rest, at Phanes' command. [10]
It had come to these notable folk that Mr. Gaston Belward had relations at Ridley Court, and that of itself was enough to command courtesy. [11]
Bagration rode up to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning the sound of voices and the shouts of command. [2]
His recent appointment to the command of a corps, by one so competent to judge as General Sherman, proves this. [7]
As she tried to take the measure of the situation and plan what she would do, the noise of the music suddenly ceased, and she heard a voice, though low in tone, give some sort of command. [11]
The Emperor's command to take her darling from her affected his wife most painfully. [10]
Then Atossa began to rage again, until at last her mother was forced to command silence, and as morning had already began to dawn, sent her to her sleeping-room. [10]
I am about to pronounce the dread name and command the spell to dissolve. [5]
I was intending to occupy it with the whole command, but that is not necessary now. [5]
The intention was to make a stand at the Drissa camp, but Paulucci, aiming at becoming commander in chief, unexpectedly employed his energy to influence Alexander, and Pfuel's whole plan was abandoned and the command entrusted to Barclay. [2]
And in response to his appeals, despite the presence of officers of higher rank, the President had given Captain Nathaniel Lyon supreme command in Missouri. [9]
The Good was, to him, the highest Idea and the uttermost of which we can conceive:--Good, whose properties he made manifest by every means his lofty and lucid mind could command. [10]
We know how to fight, and we know how to command. [9]
We Romans learn to curb even the most ardent wishes when duty and morality command. [10]
She has only to command her people, wherever they may be in the earth, to use it no more, and it will never be uttered again. [5]
I command you to come to Mass next Sunday, to repent and to hear your penance given from the altar. [11]
A mist seemed to come before her eyes; but she was schooled to self- command, and he did not see he had given her a shock. [11]
We have forests to build an hundred armadas, and I will command a fleet and it is given me. [9]
I beg you to be assured that no one out of my position can know so well as if he were in it the difficulties and involvements of replacing General McClellan in command, and this aside from any imputations upon him. [7]
In the mean time they desired nothing in the world but honor and pleasure; and such pleasure as well-bred, healthy, and genial youths, with amiability, strength, and money to spend, can always command, they enjoyed to the full, without carrying it to reckless extravagance. [10]
For the first time she asked where she was to find shelter in Ratisbon; the Emperor's command closed Wolf's house against her; the Prebrunn castle was only a summer residence, unfit for winter use. [10]
For the first time in her memory she had seen her father speak to an Eglington without harshness; and, as he weakened for a moment, she moved to take command of that weakness, though she meant it to seem like leading. [11]
Having arranged matters thus, Denisov and Dolokhov intended, without reporting matters to the higher command, to attack and seize that convoy with their own small forces. [2]
She had purposely thrown him in the way of General Duncan Pasha, who, making a reputation in Egypt, had been rewarded by a good command in England and a K.C.B. [11]
She contrived to throw poisoned darts at the owner of Strawberry that started little Mr. Marmaduke to fidgeting in his seat, and he came to the rescue with all the town-talk at his command. [9]
He realised that though in his six years' residence in the land he had acquired a command of Arabic equal to that of others who had been in the country twice that time, he had acquired little else. [11]
It seems as though he has at command a messenger from heaven who brings him thought and decisions. [10]
In spite of this, and although his absence threatened to rouse Caesar to fury, and everything pointed to the necessity of his remaining within call, Macrinus, drawn by an irresistible craving, had followed the invitation, which sounded more like a command. [10]
The gauge of this was his power, and the amounts he could command in an emergency. [4]
He was by this time fully aware that Bartja had been murdered by Prexaspes at his own command, but in this moment he began to suspect that the envoy had deceived him and spared his brother's life. [10]
As head of this temple I command you to fill your jars to-day, as usual, till one who is worthy of you comes to me, and asks you for his wife. [10]
Wolf listened to this statement in surprise, and then told the messenger that he would obey her Majesty's command. [10]
I felt that this man could command himself and others. [9]

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