Because you don't obey orders, and that is the first and only business of a sailor.
All you have to do is to obey orders, and leave all the rest to me.
We haven't any thing to do with the practice: all we have to do is to obey orders," replied one of the men.
I am going strictly to obey orders; but, at the same time, it is just possible that something may turn up that you ought to know, or that might make me want to bolt.
You at the oars, especially, sit still and be ready to obey orders.
You may state what condition Colonel Gray's regiment was in, as to obeying orders, and whether it was disposed to obey orders.
I certainly was in command of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth regiments, because Colonel Howard was then in my armory with his regiment and had agreed to obey orders under me.
Were they discharged then when they refused to obey orders?
They were good soldiers, ready to obey orders at all times?
And, when everybody can be trusted to obey orders, it is an easy thing for the commander to manoeuvre his troops and conduct the battle with some chance of success.
A portion of those who intended to obey orders, having no motive for remaining below, had gone on deck as soon as they finished their suppers.
As near as I can interpret it, the greater part of the crew do not intend to obey orders," replied Shuffles.
Twenty-eight hands, you say, are ready to obey orders.
That's another o' my maxims: `Obey orders an' ax no questions.
But your father knows best, lad, and you're a wise son to obey orders cheerfully, without question.
Under a voluntary system they could not prevent the Army having its own views; it had to obey orders, but questions arose beyond the day-to-day code, and the Army ought not to have them put to it.
He merely wished them to be informed of the exemptions, and of the penalty for refusal of officers not exempted to obey orders.
No officer or soldier should in future be questioned by his superior officer as to the attitude he will adopt or as to his action in the event of his being required to obey orders dependent on future or hypothetical contingencies.
For my part, captain Willoughby, I have always thought it took a man his first five years' enlistment to learn how to obey orders.
I make no doubt, sir, so good a soldier will know how to obey orders.
As Joyce made it matter of religion "to obey orders," this command was immediately put in execution.
Mr. Woods used to read to us of a Sunday, tell us all about that; and it is quite as much the duty of a Christian to mind the commandments, I do suppose, as it is for a soldier to obey orders.
As the general well knew, the Emperor had been mistaken in thinking that the enemy were evacuating their position; still, he had to obey orders, and night alone saved his cruelly shaken battalions.
Among other unpleasantnesses the commander of Paris found himself on one occasion forced to place a general officer in the Abbaye, the civil prison, for flatly refusing to obey orders.
All you have to do is to obey orders; and the orders are that we charge down hill.
All he has to think of is to obey orders; and if every soldier does that, all is right.
The only thing was to obey orders, and do the work she was set upon.
But your father knows best, lad; and you're a wise son to obey orders cheerfully, without question.
And their duty is to obey orders," said Brace quickly.
He was a bit of a mutineer too: an ugly mulatto chap, full of fine airs, and given to telling me he wouldn't obey orders, and before the crew.
Don't forget you're a fo'mast hand yet awhile and the way for a fo'mast hand to get ahead is to obey orders.
She was trying her best to obey orders, but being a sport was no slight undertaking under the circumstances.
Look here, boy: When I tell you or anybody else in this office to do or not to do a thing, I expect 'em to obey orders.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obey orders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
