548 examples of disobeyed in sentences

When Parker and the cowboys reappeared at the house it was plain that all had disobeyed Carolyn June's injunction not to "dress up."

But I say he found them alive; at which he fell into a grievous rage, and told them, that seeing they had disobeyed his counsel, it should be worse with them than if they had never been born.

He would say his legions nominated him against his will and that to have disobeyed them would have laid him open to the punishment for treason.

"Yesterday," she continued, "I could not help it; I disobeyed his orders and I spoke to him about Stella, and do you know, he listened to me quite patiently.

Thus Bouillé broke on the wheel, while the men were yet alive, every bone in the bodies of his soldiers when they disobeyed him; and for scratching Louis XV, with a knife, Damiens, after indescribable agonies, was torn asunder by horses in Paris, before an immense multitude.

General Lee, with a considerable division at North Castle, N.J., was ordered to rejoin his commander, but, apparently from ambition for independent command, disobeyed the order.

Boiling with rage, the commander-in-chief rode up to Lee and demanded why he had disobeyed orders.

He looked at Dinnie as much as to say: "I have never disobeyed you before, little mistress, but this time I have an excellent reason for what must seem to you very bad manners" and being a gentleman withal, Satan rose on his haunches and begged.

Legentil, the astronomer, gives a full description of the regulations which prevailed in his day and the manner in which they were disobeyed.

I was always a good daughter, and never disobeyed you; and could I have married the man I love, I should have been happy, and would never have left you.

Tell father, when you write him, that I have disobeyed his word; but ask him if he cannot forgive me.

In the state of "innocence" or of rational instinct that which is rational is done unconsciously, out of natural impulse; in the state of "commencing sin" the instinct for the good changes into an external compulsory authority, the law of reason appears as a ruling power from without, which can be disobeyed as well as obeyed.

But my family were completely under the influence of a cunning and arrogant priest, who threatened God's curse upon me if I disobeyed; and ultimately, with a despairing heart, I consented.

But, I say, he found them alive; at which he fell into a grievous rage, and told them, that seeing they had disobeyed his counsel, it should be worse with them than if they had never been born.

Johnson denied the right of Congress to make such a law, and very soon disobeyed it.

Fatima, having disobeyed her lord by looking into the locked chamber, is allowed a short respite before execution.

He had disobeyed the injunctions of his parents while yet a boy.

Nor was there ever, from the beginning to the ending of this stirring chapter in the history of Slavery, reason to believe that these instructions had been disobeyed.

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.

Afterwards I always asked the girls, and they confessed that their father and mother had threatened to beat them if they disobeyed.

And if I disobeyed her so, My play would not be gay, I know.

But then I feel ashamed and sad If I've been cross and disobeyed, Or if my selfish way I've had When I with other children played.

"O! never, when you've disobeyed, Or by your mischief trouble made, Think that a wicked act is right Because you hide it from my sight.

If she disobeyed she would (should) be punished.

Walter continued to keep his temper, and with some reluctance asked him whether he owed nothing, not even a sacrifice of his prejudices, to a son who had never disobeyed him, and had improved his circumstances.

548 examples of  disobeyed  in sentences