And urged by the king, Bhima made up his mind reluctantly, for he could not openly disobey the royal behest.

The man who quits in disgust when ordered to perform a task which he considers menial or unjust may be a pretty good fellow, but in the wrong environment, but the malcontent who takes your order with a smile and then secretly disobeys, is a dangerous proposition.

Any person subject to military law who, on any pretense whatsoever, strikes his superior officer or draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, or willfully disobeys any lawful command of his superior officer, shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.

And then agin dast I disobey the imperative advice of Doctor Bombus?

Not only have you been most outrageously insulting to Mr Hawden when I sent him with you, but you also deliberately and wilfully disobeyed me.

Desperately, without another pause, ere she could disobey, he started for the door.

Desperately, without another pause, ere she could disobey, he started for the door.

I disobeyed orders flagrantly.

This is what I thought convenient to write by way of preface to "The Maiden Queen;" in the reading of which I fear you will not meet with that satisfaction, which you have had in seeing it on the stage; the chief parts of it, both serious and comic, being performed to that height of excellence, that nothing but a command, which I could not handsomely disobey, could have given me the courage to have made it public.

He was struck with this letter, which he had ignorantly disobeyed, and by the same ignorance had not answered.

But though John Ring loved Captain Conwell with a love which the former did not then understand, the boy loved duty and right better, and bravely disobeying these orders, he read on.

The admonition was not without cause, for it presently became noticeable that Jenny was not merely negatively disobeying her old mother in this.

The admonition was not without cause, for it presently became noticeable that Jenny was not merely negatively disobeying her old mother in this.

You have persistently disobeyed me and made me very unhappy, but to-day I must ask you to respect my wishes.

British and Czech both had to act on our own judgment, and while, technically, we disobeyed orders, we fulfilled the policy of each country and protected our commands.

"I was aware of it," she repeated; "and as I have never voluntarily disobeyed you, I would not now thwart your purpose, even though I myself must be the sacrifice.

The former was in constant use (to employ the words of a contemporary document) "for manifest and wilful contumacy or disobedience in not appearing when ... summoned for a cause ecclesiastical, or when any sentence or decree of the bishop or his officer, being deliberately made, was wilfully disobeyed...."

Turning to my grandmother, I said distinctly and cuttingly: "Grannie, I did not intentionally disobey you.

And afterwards, under a commission of Oyer and Terminer, the commission ordered that all who had "contumaceously" disobeyed the proclamation, should be punished by "pecuniary mulcts."

You have cruelly disobeyed me,cruelly, I say, because you have shown me that all my pains and kindness and discipline have been in vain.