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Sentences starting with rule

Rule by "divine right," however liberal, was distasteful to him; where it meant oppression it stirred him to violence. [5]
Rule 2. [5]

Sentences ending with rule

I will tell you my rule. [6]
Underneath were the words, "I will put an end to graft and railroad rule. [9]
Hereafter, if democracy wins, self-determination, and not imperialistic exploitation, is to be the universal rule. [9]
Cause and effect were the rule. [9]
These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by the wind; it was the larger clouds that were lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more and more the rule. [5]
I heard after wards that she was very glad to know that they were in charge of persons who filled their minds with other thoughts than the desire to rule. [10]
Dr. Hooker attended to this little point for me in Russia, and found no exception to the rule. [1]
We often went to the most distant parts of the globe with him, and stayed weeks and months, and yet were gone only a fraction of a second, as a rule. [5]
It expects rather to record a continually perfected machinery, a life in which not only speech but ideas are brought into rule. [4]
Joseph is gone to Nice to educate himself in Kodaking--and to get the pictures mounted which Mamma thinks she took here; but I noticed she didn't take the plug out, as a rule. [5]

Short sentences using rule

Violence was the rule. [5]
There is another rule. [5]
I will not rule. [11]
It is a good rule. [5]
There's no rule against that. [12]
That is, as a rule. [5]
Listen: Rule 1. [5]
That's my rule. [11]

Sentences containing rule two or more times

But such a war does not fit in under any rule and is directly opposed to a well-known rule of tactics which is accepted as infallible. [2]
I do not rule you; you help me to rule. [11]
If it turn out that the rule is a good one for me--that I am responsible for any and every opinion that any man has expressed who is my friend,--then it is a good rule for him. [7]
I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. [5]
I think it confuses us; for as a rule it applies itself to habits and impulses which had a far-off origin in thought, and now and then breaks the rule and applies itself to habits which can hardly claim a thought-origin. [5]

More example sentences with the word rule in them

In this matter your own sense of military propriety must be your guide, and the regulations of the service your rule of conduct. [7]
When we are young we generally estimate an opinion by the size of the person that holds it, but later we find that that is an uncertain rule, for we realize that there are times when a hornet's opinion disturbs us more than an emperor's. [5]
But before won't you tell me what you think the company made this rule for? [5]
If it is written on the leaves of the Tree of Life that the white man rule us for ever, then it shall be so. [11]
Ideas rule the world, and never was there a more signal instance of this triumph of an idea than here. [7]
And upon my word, if I have to live under foreign rule, I'd as leave have a French whip over me as an English! [11]
There was now within him a judge who by some rule unknown to him decided what should or should not be done. [2]
In such regions wise and careful work was necessary, for the English rule had been fair and kindly; and men who have been ruled in that way are not always anxious for a change. [5]
Once in a while they take something up to him, but as a rule he leaves things to Gorse. [9]
Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance, and passion of the lowest class; but, as a rule, the successful journal pecuniarily is the best journal. [4]
But this rule which leaves out of account the spirit of the army continually proves incorrect and is in particularly striking contrast to the facts when some strong rise or fall in the spirit of the troops occurs, as in all national wars. [2]
As a rule, what one of us has lacked, the other, by the bounty of Providence, has been able to supply. [5]
I've forgotten just what it is, but-- Rule 3. [5]
Two of them were grumbling over one of the rules of the road--a rule which forbade card-playing on the trains on Sunday. [5]
Some searching questions were asked, when it turned out that these lads were as glib as parrots with the "rules," but could not reason out a single rule or explain the principle underlying it. [5]
The court only went so far as to rule that the prisoner was to be kept in close confinement, so that he might be within reach of the hand of justice, if the supreme decision should be "guilty! [10]
It is the way of the Alps to deliver death to their victims with a merciful swiftness, but here the rule failed. [5]
And her heart was turned from her son's step-daughter, whom at first she had welcomed right kindly; she overlooked her as a rule, or if she spoke to her, it was in harsh and ungracious tones. [10]
A famous one was headed "Shall Wool and Cotton Kings Rule the Nation? [9]
By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table. [5]
Probably this manoeuvring was all nonsense, that he was wholly misreading the man; but he had always trusted his instincts, and he would not let his reason rule him entirely in such a situation. [11]
In short, she was a lady; not one by virtue of a visit to the gods that rule o'er Buckingham Palace, but by the claims of good breeding and long descent. [11]
They who rule us speak with foreign tongue, but their hearts desire our peace and a mutual regard. [11]
In quiet and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. [2]
I address myself to the company.--I believe in temperance, nay, almost in abstinence, as a rule for healthy people. [6]
How are we to select the few capable men that are to rule all the rest? [4]
But we desire to reach out beyond those personal outrages and establish a rule that will apply to all, and so prevent any future outrages. [7]
When Floras tried to prove that under Hadrian's rule Rome had risen to the highest stage of its manhood, his friend, Demetrius, of Alexandria, interrupted him, and begged him to tell him something about the Emperor's person. [10]
If you wish to print anything print this letter; it may have some value, for it may explain to a reader here and there why it is that in interviews, as a rule, men seem to talk like anybody but themselves. [5]
As an example to others, and--not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. [5]
If he says to me here that he does not hold the rule to be good, one way or the other, I do not comprehend how he could answer me more fully if he answered me at greater length. [7]
She brings everything to its end and purpose in obedience to some rule and measure, and will so deal with me after I am dead; there is no waste. [10]
Now, in regard to his reminding me of the moral rule that persons who tell what they do not know to be true falsify as much as those who knowingly tell falsehoods. [7]
His rule appears to have been to state just so much of the truth as would leave on the mind of his readers a correct impression, at the least cost of pain to the sensitive folks he was writing about. [5]
Was it freedom, to get away from all this--from England and rule and measure? [11]
Gout, however, seems to fall under our rule, for it is generally caused by intemperance during manhood, and is transmitted from the father to his sons in a much more marked manner than to his daughters. [1]
It was destined to be the unswerving rule of Edward Mills's life. [5]
Her husband was to be the greatest man in the country and rule even Pharaoh; for Siptah is not the son of a king. [10]
The convention is to be held at Tremont on the 5th of April and according to the rule we have adopted your county is to have delegates--being double your representation. [7]
He had a time and a rule for everything, and I could not bear rules. [9]
When deviations from this rule occur, the transmitted characters much oftener appear before, than after the corresponding age. [1]
To work by this rule in literary criticism is to substitute something definite for the individual tastes, moods, and local bias of the critic. [4]
It was on this paper that young Sam Clemens began his writings--burlesque, as a rule, of local characters and conditions --usually published in his brother's absence; generally resulting in trouble on his return. [5]
This tomb in this light would be a palace meet for the gloomy rule of the king of the troop of demons conjured up by the power of a magician--if they have a ruler. [10]
As a rule they spent a part of every Sabbath--after morning service --in this sumptuous home, the rest of it they spent in Europe, or in dawdling around in their private yacht. [5]
As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendour of it, after a long sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendor of it, after a long, sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
Their own rule, they say, is to kill a deer only when they need venison to eat. [4]
As a rule, they looked at their laps, and left the scenery to take care of itself. [5]
As a rule they are pretty far-fetched, but that is not an important matter; they surprise, they compel admiration, and I notice by some of the comments which his efforts have called forth that they deceive the unwary. [5]
Where would all these traits be found more perfectly united in a single human being than in your person, Daphne, your quiet, kindly rule? [10]
As a rule, there is little gain, either in instruction or in elevation of character, if the teacher is not the superior of the taught. [4]
These clients paid their bills, but they were neither large nor influential, as a rule, with the notable exception of the Gaylord Lumber Company, where the matters for trial were not large. [9]
Now, full of the warmest confidence, he asked whether she would consent to rule as mistress of his home, the honour and ornament of his ancient name? [10]
As a rule, the town was on a spacious grin for a while, but there were places in it where the grin did not appear, and where it was dangerous to refer to the ex-convict's letter. [5]
As a rule, the speech and behavior of these people were gracious and courtly; and I noticed that they were good and serious listeners when anybody was telling anything--I mean in a dog-fightless interval. [5]
I rang, and the servant came and explained that it was another rule. [5]
The history of the sea teaches that among starving, shipwrecked men selfishness is rare, and a wonder-compelling magnanimity the rule. [5]
In like manner the same form of transmission has generally prevailed under nature throughout the same groups, although marked exceptions to this rule occur. [1]
The rule of the Ry will be as water for ever after if these things may be done to him and his. [11]
Therefore, according to the rule, the vaccine virus will cure the small-pox, which, as everybody knows, is entirely untrue. [3]
Some exceptions to the rule, either real or apparent, must be noticed, as the case of Hypopyra. [1]
When cremation becomes the rule we shall cease to shudder at it; we should shudder at burial if we allowed ourselves to think what goes on in the grave. [5]
For it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn. [6]
For that was the rule of the border. [9]
Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. [7]
This is precisely the rule I inculcated and adhered to on my part, when a certain other nomination, now recently made, was being canvassed for. [7]
In historic events the rule forbidding us to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge is specially applicable. [2]
Competitive examinations were the rule and in all official grades. [5]
Now, Dupont, once the rough river-driver, grown prosperous in a large way for him--who might yet be mayor of his town in Quebec--he held the rod of rule. [11]
As a rule the rich is so busy lookin' afther what they've got that they're not worryin' about the poor; but she thought of me, didn't she? [11]
As a rule, the rains had beaten down parts of some of the houses, and this gave the village the aspect of a mouldering and hoary ruin. [5]
He says that the primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. [5]
As a rule the occipito- parietal is the earlier of the two. [1]
As a rule the necrologies find me personally interested--when they treat of old stagers. [5]
By this rule the national government's expenses were $90,000 a year, or about $250 a day. [5]
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]
As a rule the mass of mankind have been spot where they were born. [4]
I reiterate that the majority should rule. [7]
First, there was the Kingston meeting, with the candidate, his thumb in his watch-pocket, seated in an open carriage beside Mr. Hamilton Tooting,--a carriage draped with a sheet on which was painted "Down with Railroad Ring Rule. [9]
The study of the kings from the twenty-sixth dynasty--that is, the one with which the independence of the Pharaohs ended and the rule of the Persians under Cambyses began in the valley of the Nile--occupied me a long time. [10]
They had received the intruder most unwillingly, and combined strongly against him when it became evident that he was disposed to establish a severe rule and to abolish many abuses which had become established customs. [10]
I rode into the hills at the Governor's word to bring a strong man to rule you. [11]
As a rule, the grammar was leaky and the construction more or less lame; but I did not much mind these things. [5]
Now, if ever, the fate of the Truro Franchise hung in the balance, and, perhaps, the rule of Jethro Bass. [9]
Their control of the country rested upon force; the stability of the Diaz rule, for instance, depended upon the "President's" ability to maintain his dictatorship--a precarious guarantee to the titles he had given. [9]
I doubt if the company has any right to issue such a rule. [5]
The graduate of the carpenter's shop knows how to use his tools--or used to in days before superficial training in trades became the rule. [4]
Do New-Yorkers control the capital, rule the politics, build the palaces, direct the newspapers, furnish the entertainment, manufacture the literature, set the pace in society? [4]
In my thoughts that was as far as I went; I did not go into the details; as a rule one doesn't at twenty-five. [5]
It was said that this terrible punishment was able to bring the stubbornest ruffians to terms; and that no man had been found with grit enough to keep his emotions to himself beyond the ninth blow; as a rule the man shrieked earlier. [5]
They had declared that they had been of Wichsenstein's fellowship, but had deserted Eber by reason of his over-hard rule, and betaken themselves to robbery on their own account. [10]
Lanphier perhaps insists that the rule of honor among thieves does not quite require him to take all upon himself, and consequently my friend Judge Douglas finds it difficult to make a satisfactory report upon his investigation. [7]
My wish is that the department may adopt some proper general rule for such cases, and that Mr. Diller may not be made an exception to it, one way or the other. [7]
We must remember that progress is no invariable rule. [1]
As a rule, that kind of a person sees only one side of the case. [5]
One would say that impulse was the rule in the society, without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say, intellectual sans-culottism, an impatience of the formal routinary character of our educational, religious, social, and economical life in Massachusetts. [6]
The steward explained that here was a gentleman who was insisting on having a chicken when it was dead against the rule and not in the bill. [5]
I speak of that assumed primary right of a State to rule all which is less than itself, and to ruin all which is larger than itself. [7]
That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict. [2]

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