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Example sentences for "gave command"

  • When Sargon had puffed himself quiet, he gave command to produce a great glass goblet, a steel sword, and to lead up before the entrance two horses decked with gold housings.

  • On returning to the retinue he gave command to relate to him the history of the man, and then he rode a long time in silence.

  • He gave command to carry his litter at the head of the column, and accommodating himself to its movements, advanced or rested under the immense fan with which his adjutant shaded him.

  • Yesterday the revolt was greatest, for which the worthy nomarch Sofra gave command to take the tenth man.

  • And in one moment he was seized by such a desire to turn that idea into action that he gave command to return to Nice.

  • I gave command to flog him, thinking in that way to save him from death.

  • I gave command to take these alive, to hang them for an example.

  • Pan Michael was very joyful; the officers were invited to sup with him; and for the soldiers he gave command to roll out one and another keg of spirits.

  • I gave command to place them in a circle around the foot of the cross.

  • So he gave command to the fagotmaker to drive to where those people were.

  • And he mounted upon his horse, and so being in all wise prepared, he gave command to uplift the portcullis and to let fall the drawbridge.

  • Then I gave command to tie him to that same beam, and I burned him better with fire.

  • Meanwhile the Tartars had ceased to beat the horsemen and Pan Andrei gave command to drive them naked and bloody along the road toward Zamost.

  • The prince noticed the bag when Kmita, after dismounting, stood near him; he gave command to remove it at once.

  • I gave command to wall him up in a stone pillar; he has perished there, doubtless.

  • Tsar; and he gave command to reward him from his own treasure.

  • But he gave command to halt before the book-shop of Avirnus, and, descending from the litter, purchased an ornamented manuscript, which he gave to Vinicius.

  • And he gave command to bear them both to Chrysothemis.

  • When he had said this, he stopped the litter again before the shop of Idomeneus the goldsmith, and, having settled the affair of the gems, gave command to bear the litter directly to Aulus's mansion.

  • That same night," continued he, "I went to the hetman, for he gave command to call me.

  • Of that last circumstance the prince knew already; but he was curious to hear from the lips of Kmita himself the story, therefore he gave command to call him at once.

  • I gave command to bring to me by the locks a Jew whom every one said was dreadfully wise, and he, with a sabre at his throat, read quickly all that was in the letter and shelled it out to me.

  • And clapping his hands for an attendant, he gave command to bring ink, pen, and paper; then he sat down and began to write.

  • Then he gave command to turn back, for the sun was toward setting.

  • After midday he gave command to bring the horses.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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