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Sentences starting with obey

Obey me, or you shall rue it with tears of blood. [10]
Obey this my last will, and the earth will yield you its fruits abundantly; your wives, your flocks and herds shall be blessed and freedom shall be your portion. [10]
Obey the Most High, who called you Joshua! [10]
Obey my words and await the issue in patience. [10]
Obey the--the Colonel. [9]
Obey him! [10]

Sentences ending with obey

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]
I said it twice... and he doesn't obey! [2]
Put every abomination together, everything unworthy of an honorable man and abhorrent to the gods, and you have the man whom you so willingly obey. [10]
You have only to obey. [10]
When he allowed the ram to get up it fell to plunging around, trying to rid itself of the rope, and this was the signal which we had risen up with glad shouts to obey. [5]
She was also the only person whom I would willingly obey. [10]
A whimsical question, that shocked her, irresistibly presented itself: was it not Prosperity that she had promised to love, honour, and obey? [9]
Under the bright starry sky he reviewed them, divided them into bands, gave to each a fitting leader, and impressed upon them the importance of the orders they were to obey. [10]
Well, be it so, you're master; you must give orders; I am only the servant, I must obey. [10]
These commands were so confused and mingled in utterance that any one less familiar with the speaker would scarcely have comprehended what they required of her, but Ledscha understood and was ready to obey. [10]

Short sentences using obey

Would they obey the Maid? [5]
But, listen, and obey. [11]
Do my soldiers obey me? [10]
The words would not obey. [9]
Coello's daughter did not obey. [10]
But Antinous did not obey. [10]
You won't obey me? [9]
Just obey, that is all. [5]
He would obey her! [9]
She must obey Caesar's command. [10]

Sentences containing obey two or more times

I must obey, it is true, but it is also my privilege to command, and the thousands who obey me are not sheep and cattle, but brave men. [10]
That all other forces, both land and naval, with their respective commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. [7]

More example sentences with the word obey in them

He knew that you would obey his orders, I suppose. [9]
You could not yield to the discipline of school, where we all must learn to obey if we would afterwards exercise our authority with moderation, and without any orders you left Egypt and joined the army. [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]
I ask you, will you obey or will you not? [10]
As empress, they will obey you as much as him. [10]
But Judge Douglas will have it that all hands must take this extraordinary decision, made under these extraordinary circumstances, and give their vote in Congress in accordance with it, yield to it, and obey it in every possible sense. [7]
For instance, we will ask the Indians if they would feel proud to obey your sceptre, Cambyses. [10]
The rich clothes which the princess had given her became her as if she had never worn any others; she could obey discreetly, disappear at the right moment, and, when she was invited, chatter delightfully. [10]
While the doctor was trying to compel him to obey and enter the litter which stood waiting for him, he beat him back with his strong young fists. [10]
To her he was the man, not the Emperor, and that he did not express a desire to hear her again seemed like an insult which the man offered to the woman, the artist, who was ready to obey his sign. [10]
She was Scotch, was reserved, had a certain amount of shrewdness, would obey instructions, and do her duty carefully. [11]
The stranger is warned against taking cold baths in India, but even the most intelligent strangers are fools, and they do not obey, and so they presently get laid up. [5]
The courts, the Wakfs shall obey me. [11]
These differences or variations seem to be induced by the same general causes, and to obey the same laws as with the lower animals. [1]
Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated. [2]
We cannot succeed unless you obey me. [10]
If our legs tried to obey two wills, how could we ever get anywhere? [5]
David's temperament and training had Will, and it was a compulsory force; David had to obey its decrees, he had no choice. [5]
He had heard, too, that they shrunk from no lies, no fraud to escape their toil, and how difficult was the task of compelling them to obey and fulfil their duty. [10]
I obey gladly too, for if I succeed in saving you, a new and beautiful star will adorn the heaven of my memory. [10]
And the people too are quite mutinous--they no longer obey, even my maid has taken to being rude. [2]
Then, when she told me what my godfather required of me, I was not in any haste to obey, for, indeed, maidenly bashfulness and pity hindered me. [10]
When the summons to Ratisbon had reached him in Brussels, he had been joyously ready to obey it--nay, he had felt it a great happiness to see again the beloved place for which he had never ceased to long. [10]
We will try to put it where Judge Douglas would not object, for he says he will obey it until it is reversed. [7]
Geta had only to obey, like every one else. [10]
I am bound to obey your call, and here I am. [10]
He was about to obey when a young; man, small and agile, ran past him from behind, heedless of the panic. [9]
I won't promise to obey them all, though. [6]
She even longed to obey the voice whispering in her soul from ever so far away: "Close--close to him! [11]
They were unaccustomed to obey the orders of a despot, and many were ill-pleased to lose a whole day from their work or business. [10]
However, I had to obey orders, and my wife would have it that I should entrust my precious person only to the most skilful specialist in each department of medical practice. [6]
What was there to do but in the night to flee, so that they who should kill me might not obey the law? [11]
It was wrong to defy and desert her master, but to obey him would be deadly sin. [10]
He desired her to come home with him at once, and she rose to obey, listening in silence to his assurances that the lives of Karnis and Orpheus would not be worth a sesterce if they fell into the hands of the Roman soldiers. [10]
Are there not times when to obey is a crime, and is not this one of them? [11]
Wolf listened to this statement in surprise, and then told the messenger that he would obey her Majesty's command. [10]
How happy might the world be under a sovereign who should obey that law! [10]
And was not the requirement that whoever is to command must first learn to obey, based upon old experiences? [10]
Logic, philosophy are the props of life, but still you must obey the impulse of the soul--oh, absolutely! [11]
He, Don John, the not all unworthy son of the great Emperor Charles, was not born to obey all his life, and allow himself to be turned to account, worn out, and abused for the benefit of another. [10]
As she approached the monarch's residence, she felt glad and proud that he, who could force half the world to obey him, could not rule her. [10]
He didn't invent the law; it is merely his business to obey it and keep still; join the universal conspiracy and keep so still that he shall deceive his fellow-conspirators into imagining that he doesn't know that the law exists. [5]
They strictly obey the law which I have been insisting upon. [5]
The master of the hounds, the equerries, and huntsmen hastened to obey his orders. [10]
He showed me the high-priest's ring, and so I knew there was nothing for it but to obey the villain, whether I would or no. [10]
I spoke to the foreman, and he told me coolly and decidedly that the architect was placed here in Caesar's name, and that if you do not obey him you will at once be superseded in your office. [10]
While wavering between the duty which, as a physician, she owed the sufferer and the impulse not to refuse the request of a dying woman, she read in old Nun's eyes an entreaty to obey Kasana's wish, and with drooping head left the tent. [10]
He would obey the angel's behest! [10]
She is ashamed that, though I could get no sleep during the night, and was tortured by an indescribable restlessness, she refused to obey my call, although she very well knows that the one remedy for her sleepless friend lies in her beautiful little hand. [10]
The misfortune is that we who have attained it are but servants whose burdens grow heavier with the increasing number of those who obey us. [10]
The Secretary was sworn to obey his volume of written "instructions," and these commanded him to do two certain things without fail, viz. [5]
Go, obey the summons of Nun. [10]
Twice, thrice she strove to utter a few words of explanation, defence, but her voice refused to obey her will. [10]
As if the spirits who obey you did not know already what had happened and will happen in the future! [10]
But happily, oh, so happily, that big portier wouldn't let us out--he was sorry, but he must obey orders--we must go back up stairs and wait. [5]
The poet should slavishly obey the laws he lays down for himself of his own free-will, and subordinate to them every word, and yet his matter and his song should seem to float on a free and soaring wing. [10]
But lest I should mislead any when I have my own head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter. [6]
Surrounding Victoria were several clean-looking, freckled, and tanned young men of undergraduate age wearing straw hats with coloured ribbons, who showed every eagerness to obey and even anticipate the orders she did not hesitate to give them. [9]
I know the service, and it is my habit orders strictly to obey. [2]
Yesterday they had seized upon her for the first time, and henceforward she would not evade them, that she might obey her mother and become worthy of the man praying silently yonder. [10]
We have now seen that man is variable in body and mind; and that the variations are induced, either directly or indirectly, by the same general causes, and obey the same general laws, as with the lower animals. [1]
And so we seemed, in our ignorant state; but there were those among us who afterward learned the grim trade; learned to obey like machines; became valuable soldiers; fought all through the war, and came out at the end with excellent records. [5]
And the fugitives seemed disposed to obey, for the boat lay to. [10]
Therefore, let us revere the Declaration of Independence; let us continue to obey the Constitution and the laws; let us keep step to the music of the Union. [7]
Constantine, however, relentlessly repeated his order; and, when they still refused to obey, he turned his back on their ranks with a gesture of bitter contempt, and shouted his commands to the infantry posted by the colonnade behind which Gorgo was watching all these proceedings. [10]
He who henceforth refuses to obey, or is unmindful of the reverence due to the king, is guilty of death! [10]
To have to pronounce such a verdict oppressed me like a load; but to have an Obada for a fellow Moslem and be bound to obey him--there is no heavier lot on earth! [10]
Everybody expected some prank from her and did not wish to obey her; but she resolutely and passionately demanded obedience, grew angry and nearly cried because they did not heed her, and at last succeeded in making them believe her. [2]
He has the power to oppress; I can obey without whining, as fine a man as he. [11]
It learns to play, to obey, and to submit to the rules of the school, and is protected from the contradictory orders of unreasonable mothers and nurses. [10]
He must leave Pharaoh's service, first telling his superiors that, as a dutiful son, he must obey his father's commands, and share his fate and that of his people. [10]
He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey. [2]
To now restore peace, let the military obey orders, and those not of the military leave each other alone, thus not breaking the peace themselves. [7]
When, after the Peace of Paris, the young friends parted, they vowed eternal fidelity, and each solemnly promised to obey the other's summons, should it ever come. [10]
The priest and Paula, however, refused to obey. [10]
His brother's smallest pain filled his soft heart with friendly sympathy; his law insists on charity, even towards the shrub by the, wayside; he pronounces it mortal sin to injure it, and every Moslem must obey him. [10]
And indeed her own parents did not fail to mark it; but they lacked the means to obey the leech's orders and to give Ann the good chance of a change to fresh forest air. [10]
She had been only too glad to obey the matron's bidding and go to rest at once. [10]
There was only one thing to do--to obey. [11]
They were lying on a small table and in her lap; but she felt paralyzed, and the hand she stretched toward them refused to obey her will. [10]
For the sake of the years to come, obey me. [9]
Doubtless she thought of the magic goblet, now melted, which had constrained him to cast aside honour, fame, and power, as worthless rubbish, in order to obey her behest not to leave her; but though this remembrance burdened her soul, it had no decisive influence. [10]
My own peace of mind especially will never desert me so long as I do not set myself to act in opposition to the fundamental convictions of my inmost being, but obey the doctrines of Zeno and Chrysippus. [10]
Before learning to obey, he was permitted to command.--No one opposed him, so in Villagarcia the first thing necessary was to accustom him to discipline, obedience, and the manners of the nobles. [10]
You did not obey the summons of the Most High. [10]
Will they neither obey nor make room for those who will? [7]
Take heed, and obey me blindly. [10]
She seemed to obey his will as if she had none of her own left. [6]
And therefore we obey his Stadtholder, the Prince, who reigns in his name. [10]
She never would obey him; that was not to be looked for. [6]
I shall never obey any man. [9]
He could see nought else in Cambyses but the future king of Persia, and commanded his subjects to pay him an unquestioning obedience, entirely forgetful of the fact that he who is to govern well must begin by learning to obey. [10]
He alone did not obey the law of immutability in the enchanted, sleeping castle. [2]
Therefore she did not need to avoid the look, and might obey the impulse of her heart to give him a warning in the language of the eyes which, though mute, is yet so easily understood. [10]
It will be no easy matter for me to leave my happiness, at the moment my most ardent wish is fulfilled--but Sophonisba commands and I obey. [10]
If you obey my will in everything I may demand, all that has happened this night shall remain a secret between you and me and a third person, for whose silence I will be answerable; this I promise you, and I never broke my word. [10]
Now they obey my sister, and yet I wish I had stayed in Tennis. [10]
Then, inasmuch as my lord duke desired to hear more music made, we were ready enough to obey and uplifted our voices, while he leaned on an easy couch, listening diligently, and gave us the guerdon of his gracious praise. [10]
Each of these monsters appeared to be seeking to snare me in a horrible net, and when the nauarch came to beseech me to wait, I imperiously commanded him to obey my orders. [10]
And yet the monarch's messengers seemed cheerful rather than depressed; for the eagle they were to bear to Pharaoh was ready to obey his behest, and they had feared that they would find his eyrie abandoned. [10]

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