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Sentences ending with decree

Mr. Sheriff, you will attend at once to the execution of this decree. [5]
Oh, the cruelty of that decree! [9]
Continue your feasting, my lords; but I would request you to speak no more this evening of the king and his new decree. [10]
Within two days, Mr. Calhoun, you shall be landed at Jamaica, there to await the Admiralty decree. [11]
If you find messengers from the Regent, raise objections to the unprecedented decree. [10]
They had not died by the gallows or the sword or the bullet, but they had died as commanded, and none had questioned his decree. [11]
While they marveled and wept he came again; and bending low, he whispered the decree. [5]

More example sentences with the word decree in them

But now tell us why you are obliged to leave Egypt, that we may consider whether it may not be possible to get the king's decree reversed, and so keep you with us. [10]
Fate had only to make his foot slip one little inch or decree that a wasp should sting him on the finger to put an end to his existence. [10]
The captains tried to get the pilots to decree that no member of their corporation should serve under a non-association captain; but this proposition was declined. [5]
At any other time it would scarcely have been possible to oppose the decree of the Government and guard their imperilled friend, but in these dark days the rulers must deal with them. [10]
Over there, twenty thousand people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the nine hundred and eighty thousand accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them. [5]
After a while the Tsar's decree came: to set the merchant free and give him a compensation that had been awarded. [2]
Its decree shatters the presumptuous plan of Octavianus. [10]
Malaish, it is the decree of fate, and I have no anger. [11]
Or was it that the youth of the town were to be pent into the stadium to hear some new and more severe decree, while some of the more refractory were secured? [10]
But when, after that battle, the Confederate army, under Lee, crossed the Potomac and invaded Maryland, Lincoln vowed in his heart that, if the Union army were now blessed with success, the decree of freedom should surely be issued. [7]
But life is such a web of wretchedness and disappointment, that I agree with your philosopher Solon in thinking those fortunate to whom, as in former days to Kleobis and Biton, the gods decree an early death. [10]
Let my sun so decree, and Barine's little star will vanish. [10]
Canst thou not say, "'Twas this that made decree Of conquest; here thy soul with mine did meet? [11]
Yours is the recognized critical Court of Last Resort in this country; from its decision there is no appeal; and so, to have gained this decree of yours before I am forty years old, I regard as a thing to be right down proud of. [5]
I quote one passage which in the light of after events borrows a cruel significance:-- "Congress and Parliament decree thanks for military exploits, --rarely for diplomatic achievements. [6]
This assent was, no doubt a matter of course, but the Emperor never issued an edict without it, and he was very desirous that his decree should come into operation as soon as possible. [10]
If you suppressed Kingsley Bey, rid the world of him--well, well, say, banished him," he quickly added, as he saw her fingers tremble--" and got your decree, wouldn't it be worth while? [11]
I feel that it is all not unjust; and yet I find it hard to submit to the priest's decree, for I am the daughter of Rameses! [10]
One of them is a decree signed and sealed by the hand of a successor of Charlemagne, in the year 896. [5]
Blood shed together in mutual enthusiasm is a better cement than the decree of any Parliament. [10]
A prepared but hitherto undisclosed decree of fate had bade her put money in her bag that evening, directed her to the shop to buy the dress, and would presently impel her to go to West Street--nay, was even now so impelling her. [9]
There was on him that barbaric despair which has taken dreadful toll of life for the decree of destiny. [11]
She was capable, he knew, of taking calmly the irrevocable step, of accepting the decree as she read it. [9]
The decree might have gone forth for Mr. Hodder's destruction, but Asa Waring was a man whose displeasure was not to be lightly incurred. [9]
In December, in Hartford, he was still working on it, and he would seem to have finished it, at last, rather by a decree than by any natural process of authorship. [5]
Once before she had held out her hand to him--when she gave it; now she stretched it tremblingly forth in acceptance of the decree circumstance had laid upon them. [13]
Hadrian paid no farther heed to him, but read the despatches one after another, hastily but attentively, wrote brief notes on the margins, signed a decree with a firm hand, and, when his work was finished desired the Greek to leave him. [10]
It is the decree of the court that she forfeit to the said lord bishop all her goods, even to the last farthing that she doth possess, and be thereto mulcted in the costs. [5]
I got a decree of foreclosure on the whole; but, owing to there being no redemption on the sale to be under the Blanchard mortgage, the court allowed Mobley till the first of March to pay the money, before advertising for sale. [7]
F. Amelia, the decree has gone forth, it is to be done, and that quickly; thou art to die, madam. [5]
No mandate or decree could separate them--nothing but death. [9]
The emperor, to commemorate this generous act, and to testify his appreciation of it, issued a decree commanding everybody to buy this benefactor's spectacles and wear them, whether they needed them or not. [5]
My eye was caught by those on the room that had been hers, and which, by my grandfather's decree, had lain closed since she left it. [9]
Ancient Greek philosophy called this decree, this meaning of life, the Logos, and the Nicene Creed is a confession of faith in that philosophy. [9]
Stuart was empowered by Mobley to appear for him, and I had to take such decree as he would consent to, or none at all. [7]
It is true; an injunction had been granted in the lower court, and public opinion went with the decree, and was in a great measure satisfied by it. [4]
It does make absolute equality, and there is no fiction about it; while over yonder the inequality, (by decree of the infinitely feeble, and consent of the infinitely strong,) is also absolute--as real and absolute as our equality. [5]
When Providence throws a good book in my way, I bow to its decree and purchase it as an act of piety, if it is reasonably or unreasonably cheap. [6]
Napoleon I issues a decree and an army enters Russia. [2]

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