And also the same day and year they decreed among themselves that no man should stay in the aforesaid town beyond a year and a day without being distrained to take oath to maintain their aforesaid assemblies and ordinances.
The rest of that day was spent in a conference between the two Houses, and in farther resolutions and arrangements in each, subsidiary to those two resolutions of the forenoon which had virtually decreed the Restoration.
But Betty would not cease weeping, and it was decreed that Lord March was to cease winning for that night.
Heaven hath nevertheless decreed we should still bear our portion of earthly sorrow and trouble.
If that marriage has been decreed in Heaven, a marriage it will be.
Nor can I ever hope to impart even a dewdrop of that which hath beendecreed therein, as none is acquainted with its mysteries save God, its Creator and Fashioner, and His Manifestations.
Yet this Servant standeth ready before them, awaiting whatsoever the Almighty hath ordained and decreed for Us.
The one unalterable code of the country, a code that had been fostered till it eclipsed all others, decreed that a man should be loyal to the brand for which he rode.
It has been decreed that we shall ever have the poor beside us, and so long shall we also possess those who live on them.
Far away in the distant wisdom of Providence it had been decreed that this woman should have no child less clever than herself to tease into hopelessness.
Under Alexander, it was further decreed by the diet, that nothing should in future be transacted, except communi consensu.
The major punishments of expulsion from the university, temporary suspension of attendance and presence there, or interdiction of residence or appearance within its precincts, shall be decreed by the professors themselves.
Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.
Specific performance (Law), the peformance of a contract or agreement as decreed by a court of equity.
Healthy, straight, and tall, it had fallen before it could be weakened by age, simply because the fatality of the action of underground forces crowding upon it from all sides had decreed that it should end then and there.
Still, as long as society has not decreed the total suppression of the bachelor.
At least we have the grace to hide ourselves when we massacre innocent beasts, since an implacable law of Nature has decreed that life can only be supported on life.
But God's wisdom and providence havedecreed otherwise.
For it was to her that the eternal Father decreed to give His only-begotten Son, whom He loves as Himself; and to give Him in such a mysterious manner that He should be at the same time the Son of God and the Son of the Virgin Mary.
The Parliament of Paris decreed the constitution of the Society to be fatal to all government.
In 1615 it was decreed that Galileo should renounce his obnoxious doctrines, and pledge himself neither to defend nor publish them in future.
The prophets rise to a point of view from which the destruction of the sinful people and the establishment of a perfect kingdom of God are seen to be facts unalterably decreed by Jehovah.
So God decreed them safety and delivered them from destruction; and they cooked the young bird's flesh and ate it.
O absent one, the Lord of all decreed thy strangerhood, And thou left'st far behind the love that was betwixt us twain!
If they desired to send men to the field of battle, none could oppose their authority; and if they decreed their kingdoms should enjoy the bliss and serenity of immunity from war, this condition prevailed.
Therefore, it has beendecreed by God in this day that these prejudices and differences shall be laid aside.
Thou hast decreed that all shall belong to the same household.
Dawn after dawn saw him leaving the green tables of either the "Nobility" or the Yacht clubs; and, as if to applaud his defection, fate decreed that Ivan could not lose.
Yet that was what the gods eventually decreed for this hapless twain.
He decreedthat she need not live with her husband if she preferred convent life.
It was she who decreed punishment and penance, and when the bishop enjoined correction in consequence of an enquiry, she decided upon and administered it.
For trespasses such as hers the rule of Gilbert decreed life-long incarceration, but the canon for a like trespass suffered no punishment beyond being expelled from the settlement.
At the same time," he added, "the mobilization of the army of the Confederacy against Prussia was decreedin Frankfort yesterday.
Yet not my will, but Thine be done; and if it isdecreed that care and sorrow must be my lot, give me strength to bear, courage to endure!
In his absence, the Congress of Angostura decreed that he should use the official title Libertador before the word Presidente, and consider this title as his own on all occasions of his life.
The Congress decreed the highest honors to the conquerors of Carabobo, ordered a day of public rejoicing throughout the whole country, and set the following day for the funerals of all those who had fallen on the field of battle.
I just now heard what was decreed against you in Council, which no pleading, nor eloquence of friendship had force enough to evade.
Julia decreed that she and Johnny were to do that, then unthinkingly she sent her assistant for a tea-cloth.
Know that it had been decreed that on that very day his wife should die.
I was decreed to pass through the fire of the world and return not to my home till the hearts of men were bare before my eyes, till I learned the secret of the creation.
If it is decreed that I perish at the hands of my enemies, I pray only that Anu will hold for me a place in the silver sky.
For a man is strong and should have control over all his senses; but to a woman love is life; and it is decreed that life is all in all to us.
Contempt of court being decreed against la Pigoreau, and the case being got up against the other defendants, the Count de Saint-Geran left for the Bourbonnais, to put in execution the order to confront the witnesses.
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