Decrees
[di'kri:z]
Examples
- Sitting down before this dark comforter, I presently fell into a deep argument with myself on life and its chances, on destiny and her decrees. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes, continued the tall man, we must all be resigned to the decrees of Providence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But there are no such decrees yet? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- My sister was struck by my narrative: How beyond the imagination of man, she exclaimed, are the decrees of heaven, wondrous and inexplicable! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation: 'My dear, we will not anticipate the decrees of fortune. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I have assailed thy resolution in vain, and mine own is fixed as the adamantine decrees of fate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Her decrees are borne to the therns written in blood upon a strange parchment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Checked by Hugo