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  • "There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition," remarked he, as much to himself as to his companion.   (source)
    ordinances = laws
  • "Apparently the city ordinances don't mean anything to them," he says, "because their lights will be on all night."†   (source)
  • And I seriously doubt that the locals have any traffic control ordinances.†   (source)
  • He said from now on they're enforcing the county leash ordinance and we'll be fined if our dogs are loose.†   (source)
  • The old humming soda merchandiser in the corner, the vinyl table covers, the stained plastic cups, the tacky item names on the laminated menus—Caravan Kabob, Khyber Pass Pilaf Silk Route Chicken—the badly framed poster of the Afghan girl from National Geographic, the one with the eyes—like they had passed an ordinance that every single Afghan restaurant had to have her eyes staring back from the wall.†   (source)
  • You're in violation of the city ordinance against smoking in that spot.†   (source)
  • We took pictures, then waved the EOD guys—"explosive ordinance disposal," or bomb disposal experts—in to make sure they were inert.†   (source)
  • But right now the city does it and there's an ordinance about what time of day or night a restaurant can leave garbage on the street.†   (source)
  • I went through basic training and ordinance school.†   (source)
  • Wall faulted Bush, as governor of Texas, for not taking action, like cutting off state funds, after the El Cenizo ordinance.†   (source)
  • Bitter local officials pushed through an ordinance banning automobiles from the Stanford campus and all tourist areas, effectively exiling them from the city.†   (source)
  • Millennium was not subject to any governmental ordinances or regulations, and he intended to publish the story on day three of Salander's trial.†   (source)
  • Catherine had casually pointed it out when they arrived, explaining that there was an ordinance forbidding refuse in the street, which was the main thoroughfare of Tuen Mun.†   (source)
  • But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.†   (source)
  • They're bound to have ordinances dealing with this kind of thing.†   (source)
  • A major civil rights bill was passed in 1964, and if it was controversial, it at least nullified a lot of local discriminatory ordinances.†   (source)
  • MAYOR (Rubbing his chin) I'll look it up in the town ordinances.†   (source)
  • The Buffalo ordinance against obscene language in a tavern did not qualify as disturbance of the peace, and beating a cop without any intention to escape did not qualify as resisting arrest.†   (source)
  • His prewar career reached its climax in 1861 when he drafted the ordinance of secession dissolving Mississippi's ties with the Union.†   (source)
  • Dad lay on the kitchen floor cracking jokes about an ordinance that had recently passed in our little farming village.   (source)
    ordinance = rule
  • They'd proposed other ordinances, too, and now every Sunday Dad came home from church shouting about Myrna and Jay Moyle, and how they were from Monterey or Seattle or wherever and thought they could impose West Coast socialism on the good people of Idaho.   (source)
    ordinances = rules enacted by local government
  • Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade.†   (source)
  • The result in San Francisco was a transgender protection ordinance.†   (source)
  • I told him the cops had just been here and were going to ticket people who didn't obey the leash ordinance.†   (source)
  • That feeling lasted for a week, until the town council passed a "no junk in the yard" ordinance at a hastily called meeting.†   (source)
  • It's local ordinance 574381-W" Opening the book again, Milo found Ordinance 574381-W "In the Doldrums, laughter is frowned upon and smiling is permitted only on alternate Thursdays.†   (source)
  • "When you think about it," Red broke in, "it doesn't really matter if there are ordinances or there aren't."†   (source)
  • Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.†   (source)
  • It's local ordinance 17.5:3894" Milo quickly pulled the rule book from his pocket, opened to the page, and read, "Ordinance 1753894 It shall be unlawful, illegal, and unethical to think, think of thinking, surmise, presume, reason, meditate, or speculate while in the Doldrums.†   (source)
  • Now the movement has descended to the municipal level, with a town here or there passing an English-only ordinance, which has little effect.†   (source)
  • Ordinances!†   (source)
  • ; "Banning English Divisive Measure"; "Hot in Any Language"; "Town's Ordinance a Step Backwards"; "Small Town News Can Grow Big and Ugly"; "Texas Town Makes Spanish Official, Stirs War of Words."†   (source)
  • El Cenizo compounded the affront by passing an ordinance that no town official (there were two at the time) had to collaborate with U.S. Immigration authorities or the Border Patrol.†   (source)
  • But there were few who trembled as the Ordinance was adopted and submitted to the people for their approval at the polls one month later.†   (source)
  • On the day the Ordinance of Secession was to be adopted, Sam Houston sat on the platform, grimly silent, his presence renewing the courage of those few friends of Union who remained in the hall.†   (source)
  • Nor had many Senators forgotten that nearly twenty years earlier Lamar was an extreme sectionalist Congressman, who had resigned his seat to draft the Mississippi Ordinance of Secession.†   (source)
  • In the ordinance of immersion as practised in the good old Baptist Church, it is the rule to require the candidate to relate his experience before his baptism is performed.†   (source)
  • On January 9,1861, Mississippi passed the ordinance of secession.†   (source)
  • Yep, it was practickly a town ordinance passed against her [The bathroom door is opened and Blanche thrusts her head out holding a towel about her hair.†   (source)
  • Walls were torn out in several apartments before City Hall came down on him for violating fire and zoning ordinances and trying to get industrial current into a residential block.†   (source)
  • Such, O brethren, are the Great Shastras, or books of sacred ordinances.†   (source)
  • This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the ordinances of July.†   (source)
  • "What is the use of thinking of laws and ordinances," she burst out, "if they make you miserable when you know you are committing no sin?"†   (source)
  • Kellett's first triumph in economy was to pass an ordinance removing the melancholy Cockney (a player of oboes) who was the official rat-catcher of St. Hubert.†   (source)
  • For things which might or might not be done she possessed a code at once imperious, abundant, subtle, and uncompromising on points themselves imperceptible or irrelevant, which gave it a resemblance to those ancient laws which combine such cruel ordinances as the massacre of infants at the breast with prohibitions, of exaggerated refinement, against "seething the kid in his mother's milk," or "eating of the sinew which is upon the hollow of the thigh."†   (source)
  • He expressed his willingness to listen, and she told the story of the baby's illness and the extemporized ordinance.†   (source)
  • And the city having passed an ordinance requiring them to give transfers, they had fallen into a rage; and first they had made a rule that transfers could be had only when the fare was paid; and later, growing still uglier, they had made another—that the passenger must ask for the transfer, the conductor was not allowed to offer it.†   (source)
  • There they stood, five altogether: the parson, the clerk, the couple, and Gillingham; and the holy ordinance was resolemnized forthwith.†   (source)
  • He was incensed against his fate, bitterly disposed towards social ordinances; for they had cooped him up in a corner, out of which there was no legitimate pathway.†   (source)
  • But it chanced, because of the absence of the proper judge, that the case came before an ignorant and honest person who quashed the injunction secured by Mrs. McCandless's lawyer and instructed the Department of Public Health that it might use such methods as the city ordinances provided for emergencies.†   (source)
  • Such rejected or condemned animals shall at once be removed by the owners from the pens containing animals which have been inspected and found to be free from disease and fit for human food, and shall be disposed of in accordance with the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the state and municipality in which said rejected or condemned animals are located.... Section 25.†   (source)
  • Part Fourth AT SHASTON "Whoso prefers either Matrimony or other Ordinance before the Good of Man and the plain Exigence of Charity, let him profess Papist, or Protestant, or what he will, he is no better than a Pharisee."†   (source)
  • "We have a wise ordinance in our Salique laws, which says, 'The crown of France shall never degrade the lance to the distaff'," said Montcalm, dryly, and with a little hauteur; but instantly adding, with his former frank and easy air: "as all the nobler qualities are hereditary, I can easily credit you; though, as I said before, courage has its limits, and humanity must not be forgotten.†   (source)
  • There is a liberty of a corrupt nature which is effected both by men and beasts to do what they list, and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all restraint; by this liberty 'sumus omnes deteriores': 'tis the grand enemy of truth and peace, and all the ordinances of God are bent against it.†   (source)
  • But it had an influence in placing obstacles in the way of her association with Mrs Gowan by making the Prunes and Prism school excessively polite to her, but not very intimate with her; and Little Dorrit, as an enforced sizar of that college, was obliged to submit herself humbly to its ordinances.†   (source)
  • And what in human reckoning seems still afar off, may by the Divine ordinance be close at hand, on the eve of its appearance.†   (source)
  • According to Evelyn, "the wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman praetors have decided how often you may go into your neighbor's land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor."†   (source)
  • I departed from that ordinance.†   (source)
  • M. de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by a coup d'etat, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could not succeed in becoming one himself.†   (source)
  • I am not a clerk of the court, and I shall not go to law with you for thus carrying a dagger in Paris, in the teeth of the ordinances and prohibitions of M. the Provost.†   (source)
  • Amidst the general and sudden renewal of laws and customs, in this vast confusion of all men and all ordinances, the various members of the community rise and sink again with excessive rapidity; and power passes so quickly from hand to hand that none need despair of catching it in turn.†   (source)
  • "So please you," said Ambrose, "violent hands having been imposed on my reverend superior, contrary to the holy ordinance which I did already quote, and the men of Belial having rifled his mails and budgets, and stripped him of two hundred marks of pure refined gold, they do yet demand of him a large sum beside, ere they will suffer him to depart from their uncircumcised hands.†   (source)
  • So that in spite of edicts, ordinances, and decrees, there he is, captain of the Musketeers; that is to say, chief of a legion of Caesars, whom the king holds in great esteem and whom the cardinal dreads—he who dreads nothing, as it is said.†   (source)
  • It was an ordinance of the Republic One and Indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, that on the door or doorpost of every house, the name of every inmate must be legibly inscribed in letters of a certain size, at a certain convenient height from the ground.†   (source)
  • During this year there have been made by the ordinance of justice, to the sound of the trumpet, through the squares of Paris, fifty-six proclamations.†   (source)
  • In one hour after, the ordinance was published in London that no vessel bound for France should leave port, not even the packet boat with letters.†   (source)
  • In this respect they imitated the Chancellor Meaupou, who, when he erected the new Parliament upon the ruins of the old, took care to declare in the same ordinance that the rights of the new magistrates should be as inalienable as those of their predecessors had been.†   (source)
  • The people, whether going or coming, carefully avoided the shade cast gratefully upon the white, clean-swept pavement; for, strange as it may seem, a rabbinical ordinance, alleged to have been derived from the law, permitted no green thing to be grown within the walls of Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • *o But the central government is not represented by an individual whose business it is to publish police regulations and ordinances enforcing the execution of the laws; to keep up a regular communication with the officers of the township and the county; to inspect their conduct, to direct their actions, or to reprimand their faults.†   (source)
  • Upon which the bishop had been constrained to recite to him the ordinance of Legate Odo, which excepts certain great dames, ~aliquoe magnates mulieres, quoe sine scandalo vitari non possunt~.†   (source)
  • northern parts of Virginia; Do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid: and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience," etc. *i [Footnote i: The emigrants who founded the State of Rhode Island in 1638, those who landed at New Haven in 1637, the first settlers in Connecticu†   (source)
  • A royal ordinance erected Angouleme into a naval school; for the Duc d'Angouleme, being lord high admiral, it was evident that the city of Angouleme had all the qualities of a seaport; otherwise the monarchical principle would have received a wound.†   (source)
  • In his account of the motives which led the Puritans to seek an asylum beyond seas, he says:—"The God of Heaven served, as it were, a summons upon the spirits of his people in the English nation, stirring up the spirits of thousands which never saw the faces of each other, with a most unanimous inclination to leave all the pleasant accommodations of their native country, and go over a terrible ocean, into a more terrible desert, for the pure enjoyment of all his ordinances.†   (source)
  • And again the archdeacon had protested, objecting that the ordinance of the legate, which dated back to 1207, was anterior by a hundred and twenty-seven years to the Black Book, and consequently was abrogated in fact by it.†   (source)
  • Thus was their ordinance; and so they rode with Sir Palomides fast by the castle of Joyous Gard.†   (source)
  • So then there was made great ordinance in this heat, that the queen must be judged to the death.†   (source)
  • This ordinance made King Mark for to destroy Alisander.†   (source)
  • And then were they ware of four hundred tents and pavilions, and marvellous great ordinance.†   (source)
  • So God me help, said Sir Tristram, yonder I see the greatest ordinance that ever I saw.†   (source)
  • And nothing honours a man more than to establish new laws and new ordinances when he himself was newly risen.†   (source)
  • And when we horsemen be together, look every each of you kings let make such ordinance that none break upon pain of death.†   (source)
  • And this example proves it, for the kingdom of France would be unconquerable if the ordinance of Charles had been enlarged or maintained.†   (source)
  • He killed all the malcontents who were able to injure him, and strengthened himself with new civil and military ordinances, in such a way that, in the year during which he held the principality, not only was he secure in the city of Fermo, but he had become formidable to all his neighbours.†   (source)
  • Charles the Seventh,(*) the father of King Louis the Eleventh,(+) having by good fortune and valour liberated France from the English, recognized the necessity of being armed with forces of his own, and he established in his kingdom ordinances concerning men-at-arms and infantry.†   (source)
  • And beyond this, to keep the people quiet and without loss to the state, they always have the means of giving work to the community in those labours that are the life and strength of the city, and on the pursuit of which the people are supported; they also hold military exercises in repute, and moreover have many ordinances to uphold them.†   (source)
  • It only remains now to speak of ecclesiastical principalities, touching which all difficulties are prior to getting possession, because they are acquired either by capacity or good fortune, and they can be held without either; for they are sustained by the ancient ordinances of religion, which are so all-powerful, and of such a character that the principalities may be held no matter how their princes behave and live.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Palomides, meseemeth that there was as great an ordinance at the Castle of Maidens upon the rock, where ye won the prize, for I saw myself where ye forjousted thirty knights.†   (source)
  • And there by ordinance of the queen there was set a quest of ladies on Sir Gawaine, and they judged him for ever while he lived to be with all ladies, and to fight for their quarrels; and that ever he should be courteous, and never to refuse mercy to him that asketh mercy.†   (source)
  • So by ordinance of the three kings that were sent home unto Benwick, all they would depart for dread of King Claudas; and Phariance, and Antemes, and Gratian, and Lionses [of] Payarne, with the leaders of those that should keep the kings' lands.†   (source)
  • And for his sake King Arthur made an ordinance, that all manner of battles for any quarrels that should be done afore King Arthur should begin at underne; and all was done for Sir Gawaine's love, that by likelihood, if Sir Gawaine were on the one part, he should have the better in battle while his strength endureth three hours; but there were but few knights that time living that knew this advantage that Sir Gawaine had, but King Arthur all only.†   (source)
  • So with twenty thousand he passed by night and day, but there was made such an ordinance afore by Merlin, that there should no man of war ride nor go in no country on this side Trent water, but if he had a token from King Arthur, where through the king's enemies durst not ride as they did to-fore to espy.†   (source)
  • Hitherto silent, whether the better to show by preternatural gravity that curious dignity of the garb with which he was invested or in obedience to an inward voice, he delivered briefly and, as some thought, perfunctorily the ecclesiastical ordinance forbidding man to put asunder what God has joined.†   (source)
  • brakeman brakesman bucket pail bumper (car) buffer bureau chest of drawers calendar (court) cause-list campaign (political) canvass can (noun) tin candy sweets cane stick canned-goods tinned-goods car (railroad) carriage, van or waggon checkers (game) draughts chicken-yard fowl-run chief-clerk head-clerk city-editor chief-reporter city-ordinance by-law clipping (newspaper) cutting coal-oil paraffin coal-scuttle coal-hod commission-merchant factor conductor (of a train) guard corn maize, or Indian corn corner (of a street) crossing corset stays counterfeiter coiner cow-catcher plough cracker biscuit cross-tie sleeper delicatessen-store Italian-warehouse department-store stores Derby (hat†   (source)
  • I troop forth replenish'd with supreme power, one of an average
    unending procession,
    Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
    Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth,
    The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.†   (source)
  • 38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?†   (source)
  • 13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.†   (source)
  • So then there was made great ordinance in this heat, that the queen must be judged to the death.†   (source)
  • 119:91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.†   (source)
  • What ordinance of heaven have I transgressed?†   (source)
  • And then were they ware of four hundred tents and pavilions, and marvellous great ordinance.†   (source)
  • I scorn them not, but to defy the State Or break her ordinance I have no skill.†   (source)
  • 12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.†   (source)
  • So God me help, said Sir Tristram, yonder I see the greatest ordinance that ever I saw.†   (source)
  • This ordinance made King Mark for to destroy Alisander.†   (source)
  • Thus was their ordinance; and so they rode with Sir Palomides fast by the castle of Joyous Gard.†   (source)
  • Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man, That slaves your ordinance, that will not see Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly; So distribution should undo excess, And each man have enough.†   (source)
  • She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance.†   (source)
  • 99:7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.†   (source)
  • '"Dame," quoth Meliboeus, '"do your will and
    your liking, for I put me wholly in your disposition and
    ordinance."†   (source)
  • 12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.†   (source)
  • And when we horsemen be together, look every each of you kings let make such ordinance that none break upon pain of death.†   (source)
  • How unwise, therefore, must be every such self-denying ordinance as serves to prohibit a nation from making use of its own citizens in the manner best suited to its exigencies and circumstances!†   (source)
  • Sir, said Palomides, meseemeth that there was as great an ordinance at the Castle of Maidens upon the rock, where ye won the prize, for I saw myself where ye forjousted thirty knights.†   (source)
  • Don Quixote, when he saw that not one of the four travellers took any notice of him or replied to his challenge, was furious and ready to die with indignation and wrath; and if he could have found in the ordinances of chivalry that it was lawful for a knight-errant to undertake or engage in another enterprise, when he had plighted his word and faith not to involve himself in any until he had made an end of the one to which he was pledged, he would have attacked the whole of them, and would have made them return an answer in spite of themselves.†   (source)
  • Either thou wilt die by God's just ordinance Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror; Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish And never more behold thy face again.†   (source)
  • In which case, every Subject is so far obliged to obedience, as the Ordinances he shall make, and the commands he shall give be in the Kings name, and not inconsistent with his Soveraigne Power.†   (source)
  • *prepared
    Well may men know that so great ordinance
    May no man tellen in a little clause,
    As was arrayed for so high a cause.†   (source)
  • These couchings and these lowly courtesies
    Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
    And turn pre-ordinance and first decree
    Into the law of children.†   (source)
  • For this reason, that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.†   (source)
  • England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself; The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, The father rashly slaughter'd his own son, The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire: All this divided York and Lancaster, Divided in their dire division,— O, now let Richmond and Elizabeth, The true succeeders of each royal house, By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!†   (source)
  • "I protest, Señor Don Quixote," said Don Diego, "everything you have said and done is proved correct by the test of reason itself; and I believe, if the laws and ordinances of knight-errantry should be lost, they might be found in your worship's breast as in their own proper depository and muniment-house; but let us make haste, and reach my village, where you shall take rest after your late exertions; for if they have not been of the body they have been of the spirit, and these sometimes tend to produce bodily fatigue."†   (source)
  • So by ordinance of the three kings that were sent home unto Benwick, all they would depart for dread of King Claudas; and Phariance, and Antemes, and Gratian, and Lionses [of] Payarne, with the leaders of those that should keep the kings' lands.†   (source)
  • where, after David had adjudged equall part of the spoiles, to them that guarded the Ammunition, with them that fought, the Writer saith, "He made it a Statute and an Ordinance to Israel to this day."†   (source)
  • O my Constance, well may thy ghost* have fear, *spirit
    And sleeping in thy dream be in penance,* *pain, trouble
    When Donegild cast* all this ordinance.†   (source)
  • saying, "My lord Don Quixote of La Mancha, who once was called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, but now is called the Knight of the Lions, is a gentleman of great discretion who knows Latin and his mother tongue like a bachelor, and in everything that he deals with or advises proceeds like a good soldier, and has all the laws and ordinances of what they call combat at his fingers' ends; so you have nothing to do but to let yourselves be guided by what he says, and on my head be it if it is wrong.†   (source)
  • And there by ordinance of the queen there was set a quest of ladies on Sir Gawaine, and they judged him for ever while he lived to be with all ladies, and to fight for their quarrels; and that ever he should be courteous, and never to refuse mercy to him that asketh mercy.†   (source)
  • Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man, for the Lords sake, whether it bee to the King, as Supreme, or unto Governours, as to them that be sent by him for the punishment of evill doers, and for the praise of them that doe well; for so is the will of God.†   (source)
  • "I thank thee for thy good intentions, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "but I would have thee know that all these things I am doing are not in joke, but very much in earnest, for anything else would be a transgression of the ordinances of chivalry, which forbid us to tell any lie whatever under the penalties due to apostasy; and to do one thing instead of another is just the same as lying; so my knocks on the head must be real, solid, and valid, without anything sophisticated or fanciful about them, and it will be needful to leave me some lint to dress my wounds, since fortune has compelled us to do without the balsam we lost."†   (source)
  • Did they forsooth award him special grace, And as some benefactor bury him, Who came to fire their hallowed sanctuaries, To sack their shrines, to desolate their land, And scout their ordinances?†   (source)
  • 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.†   (source)
  • * from each class or rank
    Almost fulfilled is mine ordinance; in the company
    I pray to God so give him right good chance
    That telleth us this tale lustily.†   (source)
  • Before the People of Israel had (by the commandment of God to Samuel) set over themselves a King, after the manner of other Nations, the High Priest had the Civill Government; and none but he could make, nor depose an inferiour Priest: But that Power was afterwards in the King, as may be proved by this same argument of Bellarmine; For if the Priest (be he the High Priest or any other) had his Jurisdiction immediately from God, then the King could not take it from him; "for he could do nothing contrary to Gods ordinance:) But it is certain, that King Solomon (1 Kings 2.26.)†   (source)
  • So with twenty thousand he passed by night and day, but there was made such an ordinance afore by Merlin, that there should no man of war ride nor go in no country on this side Trent water, but if he had a token from King Arthur, where through the king's enemies durst not ride as they did to-fore to espy.†   (source)
  • Sancho spent the afternoon in drawing up certain ordinances relating to the good government of what he fancied the island; and he ordained that there were to be no provision hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine into it from any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it came from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality, reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he that watered his wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it.†   (source)
  • Up go the trumpets and the melody,
    And to the listes rode the company
    *By ordinance*, throughout the city large, *in orderly array*
    Hanged with cloth of gold, and not with sarge*.†   (source)
  • 12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 12:44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.†   (source)
  • For in the differences of private men, to declare, what is Equity, what is Justice, and what is morall Vertue, and to make them binding, there is need of the Ordinances of Soveraign Power, and Punishments to be ordained for such as shall break them; which Ordinances are therefore part of the Civill Law.†   (source)
  • 15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.†   (source)
  • This ordinance is said: go, God thee speed
    To-morrow night, when men be all asleep,
    Into our kneading tubbes will we creep,
    And sitte there, abiding Godde's grace.†   (source)
  • And for his sake King Arthur made an ordinance, that all manner of battles for any quarrels that should be done afore King Arthur should begin at underne; and all was done for Sir Gawaine's love, that by likelihood, if Sir Gawaine were on the one part, he should have the better in battle while his strength endureth three hours; but there were but few knights that time living that knew this advantage that Sir Gawaine had, but King Arthur all only.†   (source)
  • Know'st thou not how our mighty princes free
    Have thus commanded and made ordinance,
    That every Christian wight shall have penance,* *punishment
    But if that he his Christendom withsay,* *deny
    And go all quit, if he will it renay?†   (source)
  • 18:19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: 18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.†   (source)
  • And therefore of His wise purveyance* *providence
    He hath so well beset* his ordinance,
    That species of things and progressions
    Shallen endure by successions,
    And not etern, withouten any lie:
    This mayst thou understand and see at eye.†   (source)
  • condition*
    "I have no women sufficient, certain,
    The chambers to array in ordinance
    After my lust;* and therefore would I fain *pleasure
    That thine were all such manner governance:
    Thou knowest eke of old all my pleasance;
    Though thine array be bad, and ill besey,* *poor to look on
    *Do thou thy devoir at the leaste way."†   (source)
  • * *caused both high
    and low to be killed*
    For which this emperor had sent anon
    His senator, with royal ordinance,
    And other lordes, God wot, many a one,
    On Syrians to take high vengeance:
    They burn and slay, and bring them to mischance
    Full many a day: but shortly this is th' end,
    Homeward to Rome they shaped them to wend.†   (source)
  • * *backgammon
    So on a day, right in the morning-tide,
    Unto a garden that was there beside,
    In which that they had made their ordinance* *provision, arrangement
    Of victual, and of other purveyance,
    They go and play them all the longe day:
    And this was on the sixth morrow of May,
    Which May had painted with his softe showers
    This garden full of leaves and of flowers:
    And craft of manne's hand so curiously
    Arrayed had this garden truely,
    That never was there garden of such price,* *value, praise
    *But if* it were the very Paradise.†   (source)
  • Woe was this king when he this letter had seen,
    But to no wight he told his sorrows sore,
    But with his owen hand he wrote again,
    "Welcome the sond* of Christ for evermore *will, sending
    To me, that am now learned in this lore:
    Lord, welcome be thy lust* and thy pleasance, *will, pleasure
    My lust I put all in thine ordinance.†   (source)
  • *message, order
    Three strokes in the neck he smote her tho,* *there
    The tormentor,* but for no manner chance *executioner
    He might not smite her faire neck in two:
    And, for there was that time an ordinance
    That no man should do man such penance,* *severity, torture
    The fourthe stroke to smite, soft or sore,
    This tormentor he durste do no more;
    But half dead, with her necke carven* there *gashed
    He let her lie, and on his way is went.†   (source)
  • King Alla, which that had his mother slain,
    Upon a day fell in such repentance;
    That, if I shortly tell it shall and plain,
    To Rome he came to receive his penitance,
    And put him in the Pope's ordinance
    In high and low, and Jesus Christ besought
    Forgive his wicked works that he had wrought.†   (source)
  • Why all these things change from their ordinance,
    Their natures, and preformed faculties
    To monstrous quality;--why, you shall find
    That Heaven hath infused them with these spirits,
    To make them instruments of fear and warning
    Unto some monstrous state.   (source)
    ordinance = normal course
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