Obeying

Examples

• While obeying my directions, he glanced at me now and then suspiciously from under his frost-white eyelashes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Is it obeying your husband to disobey him on the wital subject of his business? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They all stood in amazement, smiling uncannily, as if the rabbit were obeying some unknown incantation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then would the inferior Barnacles exclaim, obeying orders, 'Hear, Hear, Hear! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Obeying her, he shambled out, and Eugene Wrayburn saw the tears exude from between the little creature's fingers as she kept her hand before her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She is tenderhearted on the subject of her pupil; yet she reproaches you sometimes for obeying your uncle's injunctions too literally. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Obeying these impulses, he had become the husband of Perdita: egged on by them, he found himself the lover of Evadne. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This, I am well aware, was not the quickest way to take of obeying the directions which I had received. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I departed, obeying his directions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A honouring and obeying wife would let his trade alone altogether. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But we may assert that French science will have tried, by obeying the law of humanity, t o extend the frontiers of life. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Meade, always prompt in obeying orders, now pushed forward with great energy, although he was himself sick and hardly able to be out of bed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now thou art obeying. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She had been seriously offended by Mr. Helstone's proceedings, and had all along considered Caroline to blame in obeying her uncle too literally. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If he lived as Lydgate had said he might, for fifteen years or more, her life would certainly be spent in helping him and obeying him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In obeying nature intellectually, man would learn to command her practically. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We, his staff, followed him to surround and protect him; obeying his signal, however, we fell back somewhat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But in cases where your doing so would involve a great public evil-- Obeying God never brings on public evils. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There was a certain liquid brightness in her eyes, and Will was conscious that his own were obeying a law of nature and filling too. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Caleb