Dictates
[dik'teits]
Examples
- At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He hated to think of May Welland's being exposed to the influence of a young woman so careless of the dictates of Taste. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Why not make up our minds that we know nothing, and then, while we quietly follow the dictates of our own consciences, hope the best? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Increase me in that wisdom which discovers my truest interest: Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- My mother, though highly exasperating to the feelings, is actuated by maternal dictates. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If you are ready we will start at once for Woking, and see this diplomatist who is in such evil case, and the lady to whom he dictates his letters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am afraid my conscience has been a very easy one; but certainly I have followed its dictates. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I must follow the dictates of my heart whatever may become of me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I loved you--I love you--neither anger nor pride dictates these lines; but a feeling beyond, deeper, and more unalterable than either. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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