"Refuse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... could not confess his error. If the Duke of Friedland had suffered by an unjust decree, he might yet be recompensed for all his losses; the wound which it had itself inflicted, the hand of Majesty might heal. If he asked security for his person and his dignities, the Emperor's equity would refuse him no reasonable demand. Majesty contemned, admitted not of any atonement; disobedience to its commands cancelled the most brilliant services. The Emperor required his services, and as emperor he demanded them. Whatever price Wallenstein might set upon them, the Emperor would readily ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... the other men very much but they bother me with questions. They refuse to believe that I am connected with a mission, and consider it all as ...
— Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little
... merely tell you that in compliance with the advice of M. Carbon, and for another peremptory reason of which I will speak to you later on, I thought it best to refuse several rather tempting proposals, and to accept in the preparatory school annexed to the Stanislas College, a humble post which in several respects harmonised very well with my present position. This situation did ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan
... said the doctor, evidently disconcerted at this threatened difficulty, "you must be aware of the consequences, if you refuse to ...
— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed
... acknowledge the church and the pope and the king of Spain; and in case of refusal or delay to comply with this summons, the invader was to notify them of the consequences in these terms: "If you refuse, by the help of God we shall enter with force into your land, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and subject you to the yoke and obedience of the church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon
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