"Decree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... did not leave it, for to-day something seemed to tell her that it was meant that she should suffer, and she bowed in spirit to the decree. ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens
... dear dissemblers, that you always seem to enter the holy state with either reluctance or lukewarm indifference? when every body, with half a head, knows that matrimony is the "hoc erat in votis," the grand object of all your wishes. Strange! that the laws of female modesty should decree it absolute indelicacy for a girl candidly to show her preference for a particular individual before the rest of his sex. Strange! that modern mothers should uniformly caution their daughters against ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames
... "punish you. Yourself you have framed your punishment!" And he exposes how by forgetting the whole duty of a Valkyrie—to deal victory or defeat according to Wotan's decree—she had made herself in effect no longer a Valkyrie. "No more shall I send you from Walhalla.... No longer shall you bring warriors to my hall.... From the tribe of the gods you are cut off, rejected from the eternal line.... ...
— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall
... decree (also adopted by other German states) forbidding the emigration of German citizens to Brazil. In 1896 it was revoked for the three most southern states of Brazil, i.e., Rio Grande do Sul, ...
— The German Element in Brazil - Colonies and Dialect • Benjamin Franklin Schappelle
... thou that I will so soon change my decree? No, no, friend Moses, so light thou shalt not find me. I will punish them all; ...
— Everyman and Other Old Religious Plays, with an Introduction • Anonymous
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