But her father said it must be, and her mother, believing him to know best, carried out his decree.

thou cursed by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee!

I am henceforward, by his inviolable decree, to sit and hear his harangues without daring to oppose him.

and what outrages and insolencies may not be expected from men trusted with swords, and kept, from day to day, and from month to month, in habitual drunkenness by a decree of the senate?

The decree of the 17th of February was a masterpiece.

This decree completed the proscription of the person, by the proscription of the name.

Picture to yourself a poor devil who, three years ago, borrowed ten sous of his porter, and who to-day, leaning voluptuously on the Moniteur, has only to sign a decree to take a million.

By me kings reign and princes decree justice'it is the word of God.

"Isaiah denounces such legislation, 'Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees.'

Not long since a formal decree of pardon had been solemnly declared and published throughout Venetia, at which the people stood aghast.

And, gentlemen, before we make an end, A little longer yet your patience lend, That in your friendly censures you may see What the infernal synod do decree; And after judge, if we deserve to name This play of ours, The devil and his dame.

Harpagus sent a letter to Cyrus concealed in the belly of a hare, and Darius signed a decree which his nobles presented to him in writing.

At that time, the Empress Eugenie had issued her imperial decree that all the world should shine in "barbaric gold,"a fashion by no means distasteful to the splendor-loving sisters.

For the sake of argument I am willing to admit that the courts, in the exercise of the dispensing prerogative, called the Police Power, have always acted wisely, so much so that every such decree which they have issued may be triumphantly defended upon economic, moral, or social grounds.

By a decree of June 12, 1790, the Assembly transferred the allegiance of the French clergy from the Pope to the state, and the priesthood everywhere vowed revenge.

On March 10, 1793, the Convention passed a decree constituting a court of five judges and a jury, to be elected by the Convention.

Fouquier wrote to the Committee that they must obtain from the Convention a decree silencing the defence.

So grave was the crisis felt to be that the decree was unanimously voted.

When Fouquier heard that the decree was on its way, he said, with a sigh of relief,"Faith, we need it."

The majority came to the resolution not to refuse to Scipio the desired commission, after he had previously observed, at least in form, the respect due to the supreme governing board and had submitted himself beforehand to the decree of the senate.

In the year 1793, a decree was passed by the National Assembly, to prevent burying in churches, or in church-yards, within the city of Paris.

All had the choice of these alternatives, either free egress out of the land;[E] or acquiescence in the decree, with life and residence as tributaries, under the protection of the government; or resistance to the execution of the decree, with death.

All had the choice of these alternatives, either free egress out of the land;[E] or acquiescence in the decree, with life and residence as tributaries, under the protection of the government; or resistance to the execution of the decree, with death.

"Now then," said Minos, "you shall hear my decree.

GORDIUS, a boor, the father of Midas (q. v.), who was proclaimed king of Phrygia because he happened, in response to the decree of an oracle, to be the first to ride into Gordium during a particular assembly of the people; he rode into the city on a waggon, to which the yoke was attached by the Gordian knot, and which he dedicated to Zeus.