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Sentences starting with law

Law she had finally approved; it was still respectable; it was a very good waiting-ground for many opportunities, and it did not absolutely bar him from literature, for which she perceived he had a sneaking fondness. [4]
Law and tradition defended its sanctity more effectively than troops. [9]
Law and medicine are what I call real professions. [4]
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Sentences ending with law

Not Tardif but yourself is open to the law. [11]
What will be yours if you defeat--" "Revenge--my rights--the law! [11]
I am not your wife save by the law; and little have you cared for law! [11]
I had my wrongs, and I had my rights, and you were mine by Romany law. [11]
She's got a wife's dower-rights according to the law. [11]
No man can, who does not give the Abolitionists an argument to deny the obligation enjoined by the Constitution to enact a Fugitive State law. [7]
Perhaps half those who are convicted of crimes are as capable of reformation as half those transgressors who are not convicted, or who keep inside the statutory law. [4]
It is that which sometimes has made me afraid, that we believed ourselves above the law. [9]
And that is what Paul meant when he said that it freed us from the law. [9]
You little realize what far-reaching harm has just been wrought here under the fickle forms of law. [5]

Short sentences using law

Is it not the law? [11]
I would try the law. [9]
But she knows the law. [5]
I am of the law. [12]
Here, it is the law. [11]
The law is sometimes unkind. [11]
The law was much surer. [4]
You wouldn't study law. [9]
It is martial law. [9]
Necessity knows no law. [7]

Sentences containing law two or more times

I would save you from the law, and from the damages which the law gives. [11]
It matters little whether I killed him or not; the law says I did, and the law has taken its toll of me. [11]
In short, I was taught law precisely as I had been taught religion,--scriptural infallibility over again,--a static law and a static theology,--a set of concepts that were supposed to be equal to any problems civilization would have to meet until the millennium. [9]
A man might want to save his country by making some good law, and be mistaken both as to the result of that law and the right methods in making it. [11]
There is an unwritten law about human successes, and your sister must bow to that law, she must submit to its requirements. [5]
There is no thing of beauty that does not conform to a law of order and beauty--poem, story, costume, picture, statue, all fall into an ascertainable law of art. [4]
The law of the tiger's temperament is, Thou shalt kill; the law of the sheep's temperament is Thou shalt not kill. [5]
Medallion began with the parish, passed to the law, from the law to Napoleon, from Napoleon to France, and from France to the world, drawing out from the Avocat something of his old vivacity and fire. [11]
I had set the law after living lecture doubles of mine a couple of times in America, and the law had not been able to catch them; others in my trade had tried to catch their impostor-doubles and had failed. [5]
Here is where the greatest danger lies that, while we profess to be a government of law and reason, law will give way to violence on demand of this awful and crushing power. [7]

More example sentences with the word law in them

In the New Zealand law occurs this: "The word person wherever it occurs throughout the Act includes woman. [5]
It's human nature you've got to deal with, not theories about law and justice. [4]
The treasures which your sages painfully seek out we already possess in our scriptures, our law and our moral ordinances. [10]
The words "murdered your mother" haunted her, and she remembered the law of the ancients which refused to prescribe a punishment for the killing of parents, because they considered such a monstrous deed impossible. [10]
You yourself, in your law practice, are always insisting upon the sacredness of contract as the very basis of our civilization. [9]
Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
I only made your acquaintance after I had rescued you, and I opposed the mob, not for the sake of any particular man, but for that of law and order. [10]
But I ask you, would you have taken the same deep interest in setting the law upon this suspected man did you not believe him to be an infidel? [11]
But I pray you, do not accept this law upon my say-so; but diligently examine for yourself. [5]
I can tell you, as one who knows, that there is no corporation in this country which, in the struggle to maintain itself, is not forced to adopt the natural law of the survival of the fittest, which you condemn. [9]
I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail. [9]
The social law you sketch when reduced to its bare elements, is remorseless. [11]
To be sure, you Romans trouble yourselves more about matters of law and administration than the culture of the arts or the subtleties of thought. [10]
In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned. [11]
Brampton had not yet received the details, but the Consolidation Bill had gone into the House that morning, and would be a law before the week was out. [9]
He was twenty-five years old, college bred, and had finished a post-college course in an Eastern law school a couple of years before. [5]
A man invests years of work and a vast sum of money in a worthy enterprise, upon the faith of existing laws; then the law is changed, and the man is robbed by his own government. [5]
In his twenty-third year Mr. Clay was licensed to practise law, and emigrated to Lexington, Kentucky. [7]
All the law, written and unwritten, is on your side. [5]
Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath? [7]
Perhaps also it would be given him, in the name of the law, to deal with a man he hated. [11]
The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
The two dominant words of our time are law and average, both pointing to the uniformity of the order of being in which we live. [3]
It is no wonder that people constantly go into their neighbors' houses by mistake, just as, in spite of the Maine law, they wear away each other's hats from an evening party. [4]
And we were witnesses; we had seen these murders done and it was our duty to tell, and let the law take its course. [5]
But he whispered with the jurats eagerly, and presently he said with brusque decision: "Our law of Haro may only apply to trespass upon property. [11]
They were discussing with some heat the prospect of having their pay reduced by the fifty-four hour law which was to come into effect on Monday. [9]
I left Charlestown with honor, I studied law at Salisbury in North Carolina, and I have come here to practise it. [9]
Thus they were willing to commit a sin against the spirit of religious law, in order that they might preserve the letter of it. [5]
And presently you will go to Virginia, and study law, and come back again. [9]
The old Master, whose words I have so frequently quoted and shall quote more of, is a dogmatist who lays down the law, ex cathedra, from the chair of his own personality. [6]
And the kids--well, whilst the law lashed me from town to town, they starved. [5]
Custom is law, while it is yet the custom. [11]
The same law which organized the Supreme Court in 1824 also established and organized circuit courts to be held in each county in the State, and five circuit judges were appointed to hold those courts. [7]
First the subject, which must of itself have driving power, then the main character, which becomes a law working out its own destiny; and the subject in my own work has always been translatable into a phrase. [11]
The moral law, which has the right to acquit or condemn, always demands restitution, before mortals can "go up higher. [5]
Behind the moss-hut, wherein I had found my Herdegen with the dancing hussy, the Swabian Junker and Ritter Franz had fought, without any heed of the law and order of such combat--fought for life or death, and for my sake. [10]
The only point where the mind and meaning of the man worked according to the law of his life was at the eye, where the monocle was caught now as in a vise. [11]
Better leave it where the law of the case has placed it. [7]
When Carmen went, when Zoe fled, when his cousin Auguste Charron took his flight, when defeats at law abashed him, the house and mills, and stores and offices, and goodly trees, and well- kept yards and barns and cattle-sheds all looked the same. [11]
There are times when our friends do not act like themselves, but apparently in obedience to some other law than that of their own proper nature. [6]
During those weeks when I was making my first desperate attempts at briefing up the law I was sometimes interrupted by his exclamations when certain figures went by in the corridor. [9]
Skilled in debate when he chooses to enter it, his knowledge of the law only exceeded by his knowledge of how it is to be evaded--to Lartius is assigned the task of following up the rout. [9]
He had heard what Young Aleck had just muttered; but to the man of the cold fingers he said: "You keep good whisky in spite of the law and the iron glove, Old Aleck. [11]
He'll show you what law is! [2]
The law is what I was born for. [5]
He would kill what he loved; he would have his way with what he loved, whether or not it was the way of law or custom or right. [11]
Gun-packin' in the West since the Civil War has growed into a kind of moral law. [13]
James Grayden's directions were peremptory, but it was a case for the higher law. [6]
The law they were passing was not about States, and was not making provisions for States. [7]
And if it were not so, who will give law to the Church? [5]
If true, it were no great harm to suspend the law this one time--any would say that. [5]
Both gentlemen however were from home, nor was the life and light of law, Miss Sally, at her post either. [12]
Oh, if we were face to face in this room again, my white-livered man of law, how well contented one of us would be! [12]
Presidents came and went, kings and emperors had responsibilities and were subject daily to annoyances, but this man was a law unto himself. [9]
It is a well-known law that widely-ranging species are much more variable than species with restricted ranges; and the variability of man may with more truth be compared with that of widely- ranging species, than with that of domesticated animals. [1]
I suppose that wealth and rank have some privileges; but it is the law that the person having been pronounced dead by the physician shall be the same day brought to the dead-house, and lie there three whole days before interment. [4]
Let him, say we, have general law in advance (guarded in every possible way against fraud), so that, when he acquires a legal right, he will have no occasion to wait for additional legislation; and if he has practiced fraud let the courts so decide. [7]
But the point we wish to make is that neither society nor the law makes any allowance for the aberrations of human nature caused by dull and unpleasant weather. [4]
I think that we should not make our own personal experience a law unto the world. [11]
Mr. Tooting, as we know, had abandoned the law office of the Honourable Hilary Vane and was now engaged in travelling over the State, apparently in search of health. [9]
By our conduct we are encouraging the growth of the criminal class, and we are inviting disregard of law, and diffusing a spirit of demoralization throughout the country. [4]
Whatever the law was, whatever wrong the old man had done, it had been atoned for; the price had been paid by both. [11]
My father's argument was this: If men are deprived by violence of one kind of property which they hold under the law, all other kinds of property will be endangered. [9]
Besides, the law was that the State should pay half when a crossing was eliminated, and the State could not afford it. [9]
The original conception was that the offender against the law should be punished, and that the punishment should be made to fit the crime, an 'opera bouffe' conception which has been abandoned in reasoning though not in practice. [4]
In Orlando's veins was Southern sap, mixed with Northern blood; in Orlando's eyes was a sudden look belonging to that which defies the law. [11]
But his crime was so great that, according to the law of Egypt, his nearest relations were to be seized and punished with him. [10]
Our return home was pleasant, and I began to attend the law lectures at Gottingen with tolerable regularity. [10]
Such a bill was passed and tendered to the Republican Governor for his signature; but, principally for the reasons I have stated, he withheld his approval, and the bill fell without becoming a law. [7]
The law, however, was on the side of Karnis, and it allowed him to pursue her and cast her into prison. [10]
Now Mr. Penhallow was not much of a Latin scholar, and knew and cared very little about the civil law. [6]
You thought I was not brave enough to love a man open to the law. [11]
He said there was no law to regulate this thing, except that most powerful of all laws, custom. [5]
But since there was no fixed law on the subject, and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assistance in electing Gen. Cass, he must say that they were behind the Whigs in their advocacy of the freedom of the soil. [7]
Every day he was less and less in love with the law as it was practiced, and, courting reputation, he would much rather be a great author than a great lawyer. [4]
Take away what was his, by every holy right, because it was all according to the law of the land and of the Holy Gospel, and what was left? [11]
The new law was framed and passed. [5]
Next day he was drunk, and he went to Judge Thatcher's and bullyragged him, and tried to make him give up the money; but he couldn't, and then he swore he'd make the law force him. [5]
In this he was confirmed by his privy secretary, Caspar Slick, whom the Queen had beguiled; and this man, learned in the law, was ready with a decision which the Imperial magistrate gladly agreed to forthwith, as mild yet sufficient. [10]
One of these was called "Bacon's Abridgment"; it dealt with law and it puzzled me sorely. [9]
The blonde's captain was bound on a whaling cruise in the North Atlantic and could not go back such a distance or make a port without orders; such being nautical law. [5]
More than ever was Boris resolved to serve in future not according to the written code, but under this unwritten law. [2]
The new Charley was as dead as the old had been of late, and this clarifying moment left the grim impression behind that the old law was not obsolete. [11]
That law trial was a slow business--appeared like they warn't ever going to get started on it; so every now and then I'd borrow two or three dollars off of the judge for him, to keep from getting a cowhiding. [5]
Now, whether this was a repudiation of the Missouri line in principle depends upon whether the Missouri law contained any principle requiring the line to be extended over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
He said there warn't nothing foreign that warn't taxed but just that one, and so they couldn't be consistent without taxing it, and to be consistent was the first law of politics. [5]
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. [5]
In his long walks it was not on the law that Philip was ruminating, nor was the fame of success in it occupying his mind. [4]
It was a violation of both law and the sacred obligations of honor, to overthrow and trample under foot a solemn compromise, obtained by the fearful loss to freedom of one of the fairest of our Western domains. [7]
Is it your view you shall tyrannize, browbeat, batter, and then that everybody you love, or pretend to love, shall bow down before you as though you were eternal law? [11]
There is a very loose primary law in this State, purposely kept loose by the politicians of the Northeastern Railroads, in order that they may play such tricks on decent men as they have been playing on me. [9]
Some people think very little of these refinements; they have not studied magnetism and the law of the square of the distance. [6]
This was a very great change; for the law thus repealed was of more than thirty years' standing. [7]
How dared he venture to wear a sword in the precincts of the Emperor's residence, contrary to the law, and, moreover, a weapon of such unusual length and width, which had not been carried for a long while? [10]
Presumptions are of vast importance in medicine, as in law. [3]
And besides, Shakespeare uses his law just as freely in his first plays, written in his first London years, as in those produced at a later period. [5]
Do not be upset, brothers, that the law courts are closed; things have to be put in order, and we will deal with villains in our own way! [2]
It was impressed upon you and yours to hold the life of another sacred; to us, our duty as the sovereign transcends this law. [10]

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