V. command, order, decree, enact, ordain, dictate, direct, give orders.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Gonzalos’ only hope and consolation was that Almah and her child had escaped; and to see her in the very centre of danger, even to listen to her calmly proposed plans, seemed so like madness, that he used every effort to alarm her into their relinquishment.
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

From a vast cloud of dust, emerged soon our troopers in hot haste and disorder.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

[Pg 223] of the animal to snatch freedom for freedom's sake, nor the feeling of wrong or vengeance capable of destroying everything and powerless to build up anything.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

But many of the bones developed in relation to the sense organs can find their place in the generalised embryonic schema or archetype of the vertebrate skull, for they are of very constant occurrence during early development.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

He succeeded, however, in pleasing the ‘gentle Lady Anne’; and as they were both endued with good dispositions and equal tempers, and neither of them very capable of discovering each other’s deficiencies, this marriage proved extremely happy, and they lived together in uninterrupted harmony”; though, like most royal marriages, the princess and her future husband were allowed a very short time to make each other’s acquaintance; for the marriage took place nine days after the Prince of Denmark had been welcomed to London by the king and queen of England and the parents of his future bride.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

The reader's attention is presently deeply engaged by an abstract disquisition on the relative proportion, represented by various circles of different extent, of the wants, ideas, [Pg 326] and language of savages, shepherds, commercial and polished nations, when he is suddenly awakened to the recollection, that all this is addressed to a child of eight years old: an allusion to the prince's little chair, completely rouses us from our reverie.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

The curved stretchers with the vase ornament in the centre is very characteristic of Dutch, English, and French furniture of the second half of the seventeenth century.
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

At present emulation and the various causes of dispute existing between them incite them against each other, because the fear of any foreign enemy is remote.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

In the course of my inquiries I do not remember to have met with a single instance of a village clear of debt even in Bengal.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt