9 collocations for obedience

Henry, reduced to this perilous and disagreeable situation, had recourse to the court of Rome: though sensible of the danger attending the interposition of ecclesiastical authority in temporal disputes, he applied to the pope, as his superior lord, to excommunicate his enemies, and by these censures to reduce to obedience his undutiful children, whom he found such reluctance to punish by the sword of the magistrate

And after work, obedience the best discipline, so he says in Past and Present, for governing, and "our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break."

I have no use for soldiers who do not consider obedience their first duty.

I that have broke the beds of Mutenies And bowde againe to faire obedience Those stubborne necks that burst the raynes of order, Shall I shrinck now and fall, shot with a rumour?

The heroines were those women who had smilingly endured every wrong, every indignity that brutality could inflict; had endured them not alone for themselves but for their children; and she who had caressed the father of her child while he dashed its brains out, headed the list in saintship; for love was the kneading trough, and obedience the rolling pin, in and with which that precious mess called a man was to be made into an angel.

His first step was to reduce to reason and obedience his revd.

" "The Rev. Wilbur Fisk, D.D., late President of the (Methodist) Wesleyan University in Connecticut'The New Testament enjoins obedience upon the slave as an obligation due to a present rightful authority.'" "Rev. E.D. Simms, Professor in Randolph Macon College, a Methodist Institution'Thus we see, that the slavery which exists in America, was founded in right.'

Amid these difficulties Marcus Cornelius, the praetor, sometimes by soothing, at other times by reproving them, pacified the minds of the soldiers; and reduced to obedience all the states which had revolted; out of which he gave Murgantia to those Spaniards who were entitled to a city and land, in conformity with the decree of the senate.

we are but the poor tools of the law, Obedience the sole virtue we dare aim at! BUTLER.

9 collocations for  obedience