Orders

Examples

• Orders were to move cautiously with skirmishers to the front to feel for the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ask him to give yo' a bumper to the success of his orders. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• All these troops are subject to your orders as you come in communication with them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders 'Make ready! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And they think she will have her orders in a day or two. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• We were occupying ceased to afford comfortable quarters; and further orders not reaching us, we began to look about to remedy the hardship. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Go to Mr. Moore, ask Mr. Moore, was her answer when applied to for orders. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Forty-Niners took revolvers to California, foreign governments sent orders for them, and armories were built in England and in Russia for their manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The twelve precious publications which I had scattered through the house, on the previous day; all returned to me by the doctor's orders! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It had been my profession, for years past, to be in this close contact with young girls of all ages, and of all orders of beauty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The 4th infantry went into camp at Salubrity in the month of May, 1844, with instructions, as I have said, to await further orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The strike had thrown him terribly behindhand, as to the completion of these orders. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Is a commander first to give cruel orders, and then to forgive and reward those who slay his instruments? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Meade changed his orders at once. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had enormous orders and little money, and had great difficulty to meet our payrolls and buy supplies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I then issued orders for an assault by Wright and Parke at four o'clock on the morning of the 2d. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Prentiss with orders to take command of the district. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Orders began to flow in, and Watt had his hands full in traveling about the country superintending the erection of his steam-engines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• If such prove the case, said the master, my religious orders are soon taken--'Pax vobiscum'. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I find he takes orders in a few weeks. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• For the repeal of your terrible law--the Orders you hate so much. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If these prisoners have not been allowed to depart, you will detain them until further orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 31st of January I countermanded the orders given to Thomas to move south to Alabama and Georgia. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In fact it would have been in conformity with Johnston's orders to Pemberton. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Still, he did obey the orders. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He sent his man up and found we had the orders and were all right, although we didn't have the money. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Those two orders the church did assimilate and use, though with a little violence in the case of the former. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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