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Sentences starting with rules

Rules of this kind were first enounced by Cuvier; but with the progress of knowledge they require some modification and amplification. [1]

Sentences ending with rules

With Barop's permission we had a banquet in the peasant tavern there, whose cost was defrayed by the kreutzers which had been paid as fines for offences against table rules. [10]
I had a visit yesterday from the society's committee by way of discipline, because we have a piano in the house, which is against the rules. [5]
It has at various times brought forward collections of figures having the air of statistical documents, pretending to show a great proportional mortality among the patients of the Medical Profession, as compared with those treated according to its own rules. [3]
Thus the merest trifle, when it affects the emperor, becomes important for the millions over whom he rules. [10]
The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. [2]
He had a time and a rule for everything, and I could not bear rules. [9]
Go for a suspension of the rules! [5]
In the troubled state of Ireland, with internal discord, challenge, and attack, he had more than once fought, and with success; but that was in the rough-and-tumble of life's chances, as it were, with no deliberate plan to fight according to the rules. [11]
Not withstanding many sources of doubt, man can generally and readily distinguish between the higher and lower moral rules. [1]
The president and secretary detailed them for service on one boat or another, as they chose, and changed them from boat to boat according to certain rules. [5]

Short sentences using rules

It's against all rules. [12]
How she rules over him! [2]

Sentences containing rules two or more times

Her standards are set by the rules of the heart, and when she has broken these rules she has lost her standard too. [11]
The three departments of the government is the President rules the world, the governor rules the State, the mayor rules the city. [5]
Any preliminary details coming within the above rules you are at liberty to make at your discretion; but you are in no case to swerve from these rules, or to pass beyond their limits. [7]
If it is a man that rules, it is for him; if it is the law that rules, it is for the law. [11]

More example sentences with the word rules in them

I have sent your letter and the rules to Hay, but I doubt his modesty. [5]
These rules, as you see, were quite simple and clear. [5]
I am glad you have laid down some rules by which a man may reasonably expect to leap the eight barred gate. [6]
Everywhere in the world where the Romanys wander they will rejoice to hear that a Druse rules us still. [11]
Here was a woman who could be dealt with by no known rules, who did not even deign to notice a week of marked coldness. [9]
This head smiles with sweet fascination, and the countenance of the goddess that rules the actions even of the immortals, should be stern and grave. [10]
Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
She rules us with a strong hand, dispenses justice, settles disputes, and--sometimes indulges in them herself. [9]
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]
Every man's color was known, and it was against the rules to be present and fail to vote. [9]
He was more used to the rules of evidence than she was, and could not accept her positive conclusion so readily as she would have liked to have him. [6]
They talk to us of the rules of war, of chivalry, of flags of truce, of mercy to the unfortunate and so on. [2]
There is something uncanny in the passion of a man whose life has been ordered by the inexorable rules of commerce, who has been wont to decide all questions from the standpoint of dollars and cents. [9]
Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing. [2]
This was in truth forbidden, but the unabashed old man defied the rules, and as for Ursula she was well pleased to be gazed at. [10]
Firm and true to what she undertakes, and that which she requires by her own aggrandizement, and regards as being within the strict rules of propriety, she will remain stable and unflinching to the last. [5]
They are put to school; they are put at work; they are prescribed minute and severe rules of conduct, and in the latter training is included military drill. [4]
With reference to those new countries, those maxims as to the right of a people to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" were the just rules to be constantly referred to. [7]
Not far from this vast Chamber, where great financial operations are conducted on the highest principles of honor, and with the strictest regard to the Marquis of Dusenbury's rules, there is another less pretentious Chamber, known as "open," a sort of overflow meeting. [4]
I won't stand this trampling of the Rules under foot--no, not if I die for it! [5]
In addition to these large rules there are some little ones. [5]
Whether or not the two rules generally hold good, we may conclude from the facts given in the eighth chapter, that the period of variation is one important element in determining the form of transmission. [1]
That was at the time, also, when Fleda Druse returned from Winnipeg where she had been at school for one memorable and terrible six months, pining for her father, defying rules, and crying the night through for "the open world," as she called it. [11]
Thee rules by the sword, or the word of peace, friend? [11]
He adhered to the slavish rules of propriety, and observed the reticences which a traditional delicacy has considered inviolable in decent society, European and Oriental alike. [6]
Its arms were the Rules of the House. [5]
He has studied the Rules of the House and parliamentary law, you may be sure. [9]
I conformed to the rules of the game; I soon had sense enough knocked into me to understand that the conditions were not of my making. [9]
Susan forgot all the rules of reserve to which she had been trained. [6]
He wrought in the pure mathematics, so to speak, of theology, and left the working rules to the good sense and good feeling of his people. [6]
In each of the latter, it is obvious that a more equitable mode of division than the above might be adopted; but as error is infinitely various perhaps no better single rules can be prescribed. [7]
It is not the god to whom this building is dedicated who now rules within these walls. [10]
Mr. Buckstone got the floor again and moved that the rules be suspended and the bill read a first time. [5]
Osiris, as is the case with the fruitful principle of nature, was only apparently dead, rises from the nether regions and once more rules the blessed valley of the Nile, in concert with his wife, the bounteous earth. [10]
We are of the ancient blood, yet we are faithful to the Druse that rules over us. [11]
Mr. Wallace admits that there are, as might have been expected, some exceptions to his two rules, but it is a question whether the exceptions are not so numerous as seriously to invalidate them. [1]
Mr. Cannon says that there are three cardinal rules of business success; they are diligence, honesty, and truthfulness. [5]
I cannot doubt that it has saved the lives of many young mothers by calling attention to the existence and propagation of "Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence," and laying down rules for taking the necessary precautions against it. [6]
This blind fatality, that capriciously sports with the rules and lives of mortals, tells me that the mountains will never again send forth the water of their springs to my thirst. [5]
He rose, Gaston thanked him for the meeting, and was about to go, when the Prime Minister, tapping his shoulder kindly, said: "Mr. Belward, you are not playing to the rules of the game. [11]
Dictating is nearly sure to unconcentrate the dictator's mind, when he is out of practice, confuse him, and betray him into using one set of literary rules when he ought to use a quite different set. [5]
It would not suit the rules of art, nor of my own feelings; to write in that style. [14]
We had simply succeeded under the rules to which society tacitly agreed. [9]
But the omniscient Spirit, that rules the world in accordance with eternal laws, knows nothing of these sacrifices, which only tickle the nostrils of the evil one. [10]
I have made some rules for treating it that may be valuable. [5]
Before giving the several rather complex rules or classes of cases, under which the differences in plumage between the young and the old, as far as known to me, may be included, it will be well to make a few preliminary remarks. [1]
Whether people preach sermons or read mass in the church, whether a Spaniard or a Hollander rules, is a matter of secondary importance to them. [10]
He does really seem to have already forgotten Cornelia's merits in one brief month, for he eulogizes Harriet in a way which rules all competition out: "Thou only virtuous, gentle, kind, Amid a world of hate. [5]
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait, and count forty. [5]
For my mother's sake and my own I desired to live, but the rules he prescribed before my departure were so contradictory to my nature that they seemed unbearably cruel. [10]
Where Nature herself rules, she knows how to guard beauty and purity, but where man touches her, the former is impaired and the latter sullied. [10]
A severe decorum rules the court and the cottage. [6]
There are certain rules of thumb in every art, no doubt,--even in that most perilous one of lion-taming. [9]
Laws are the rules of society, to be followed by those who have not found the inner guidance, who live and die in the flesh. [9]
After mastering the rules of grammar, I needed no teacher except my mother. [10]
There are nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction--some say twenty-two. [5]
You can make rules for croquet, but not for a game that is based on the natural law of the survival of the fittest. [9]
The state, too, rules according to them, and the wise king who refrains from interfering with them in the smallest trifle can therefore wield the sceptre with mighty power. [10]
The ways of Providence are not measurable by our foot rules. [4]
As rules of property they have two uses. [7]
Can it be pretended that it is any longer the Government of the United States--any government of constitution and laws wherein a general or a president may make permanent rules of property by proclamation? [7]
You are a power, but you are not stronger than the laws and rules you make. [11]
In hotels they post certain rules in the rooms, but they always quote passages from the State law as authority for these requirements. [5]
The cooks seem possessed of one of the rules of whist,--in case of doubt, play a trump: in case of doubt, they always put in anise seed. [4]
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]
The President was persistently ignoring the Rules of the House in the interest of the government side, and the Minority were in an unappeasable fury about it. [5]
But these rules, owing to unknown causes, are far from being fixed. [1]
She was like one robbed of will, made mechanical by a stern conformity to imposed rules of life and conduct. [11]
I, and no one else, will prescribe your rules of life and conduct. [10]
I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. [7]
When the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Virginia shall be in position to communicate and directly co-operate at or before Richmond, the chief command, while so operating together, shall be governed, as in like cases, by the Rules and Articles of War. [7]
I say "rule of modesty" because there are about a million rules in the world, and this makes a million standards to be looked out for. [5]
If you were not the son of the king, who rules Egypt as Ra, I would punish your temerity with stripes. [10]
Yet had he not found himself, nevertheless, compelled to follow the old rules? [10]
The baker was not a great musician, but he had a talent, a rare gift of pathos, and an imagination untrammelled by rigorous rules of harmony and construction. [11]
Many hundreds of noble gentlemen use the sword in this country, and the man who sits here has taught them to wield it according to the rules. [10]
The next day Nitetis removed to the country-house in the hanging-gardens, and began a monotonous, but happy and industrious life there, according to the rules laid down by Croesus. [10]
I will lay my plans, I will keep faith with people here who trust me, and who know that if I am stern I am also just, and I will play according to the rules made by better men than myself. [11]
It was soon manifest that by applying these Rules ingeniously it could make the majority helpless, and keep it so as long as it pleased. [5]
The Spirit would make the laws and rules superfluous. [9]
Yet, if his love had been the real thing, he would have stayed, because their lives were so similar, and the rules of domestic life in French Canada were so fixed. [11]
He had sometimes looked on at the noble game while in Nuremberg; but the doctor understood it thoroughly, and had initiated him into all its rules. [10]
Barop made a little speech, exhorting us to fight steadily, and especially to observe all the rules and yield ourselves captives as soon as an enemy's pole touched us. [10]
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows-the exceptions. [3]
Where intellectual life keeps pace with the accumulation of wealth, society is likely to be more natural, simpler, less tied to artificial rules, than where wealth runs ahead. [4]
To do him justice, he would not undermine a classmate, although he had other rules of conduct which might eventually require a little straightening out. [9]
Both the law itself, and the history of the times, are a blank as to any principle of extension; and by neither the known rules of construing statutes and contracts, nor by common sense, can any such principle be inferred. [7]
Society will make its own rules, and although there are several other large hotels, and good houses as watering-place hotels go, and cottage-life here as elsewhere is drawing away its skirts from hotel life, society understood why a person might elect to stay at Rodick's. [4]
These occupations were intended to strengthen the body, according to Froebel's rules, and absorbed the greater part of the hours not devoted to instruction. [10]
It is obviously impossible that a masterpiece should be executed under the rules laid down by convention. [9]
It is as impossible for one section to impose upon another its rules of taste and propriety in conduct--and taste is often as strong to determine conduct as principle --as it is to make its literature acceptable to the other. [4]
Well, do as I say; for these things must be according to the rules of the game, and I myself will tell him all at the Saints' Repose. [11]
I was told, however, some months since, that I had not been faithful to all the rules of the doctrine. [3]
These two rules hold good generally throughout the animal kingdom. [1]
Denis Davydov, with his Russian instinct, was the first to recognize the value of this terrible cudgel which regardless of the rules of military science destroyed the French, and to him belongs the credit for taking the first step toward regularizing this method of warfare. [2]
I would give his first-born, rather than any one else, this fruitful soil, and, when the rich father's favorite, when Leonax once rules here by Xanthe's side, there'll be no lack of means to rebuild the platform and renew a few marble benches. [10]
The relation between him and his preserver was so entirely apart from all common acquaintances and friendships that no ordinary rules could apply to it. [6]
In doing so he had tried to get what he wanted without trickery; to reach his goal by playing the game according to the rules, and this policy nonplussed his rivals and associates. [11]
I did not have time to ascertain by what rules this was made out; and I shall be very glad if it shall, by any means, prove to be incorrect. [7]
It was to have the President and the Vice-Presidents of the Parliament trample the Rules under foot upon occasion! [5]

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