Laws
[lɔ:z]
Examples
- The reactions were all varied in various people, but they followed a few great laws, and intrinsically there was no difference. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But the gypsies have many laws they do not admit to having. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The instrument may be made before the laws which govern its operation are discovered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I said he was right there--never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- These fundamental principles have since been adopted and incorporated in their laws by all the nations of the earth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The heralds then proclaimed silence until the laws of the tourney should be rehearsed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Our ignorance of the laws of variation is profound. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Yet no one would seriously maintain that the West is more progressive because it has progressive laws. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the Laws there is hardly anything but laws; not much is said about the constitution. Plato. The Republic.
- Bell, inheriting unusual knowledge of the laws of speech and sound, came from the other direction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As a result of this experiment Galileo declared three laws in relation to falling bodies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But this complement may be much inferior to what, with other laws and institutions, the nature of its soil, climate, and situation, might admit of. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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