We ordered them to sing in such a way that the side [of the choir] singing the first half of the verse should hear the end of the preceding verse and the side singing the second half should hear the beginning of the next verse[1892].
I ordered them to fire over the canoe till I could get round in the boat, but not to kill any one.
Accordingly I ordered them to be taken up, and we were conducted by him to a house, wherein were seated, in a circle, eight or ten middle-aged persons.
Some others belonging to the Adventure were also taken; and, being all put under confinement, the next morning I ordered them to be punished according to their deserts.
A voice from the schooner, however, ordered them to come on, while she kept firing away, though with somewhat abated energy.
But he, that they might know of what consequence the presence and appearance of a wise commander is in time of conflict and danger, ordered them to stand still.
I found out who the soldiers were, and I requested--ordered them to send the guns to the mayor's office.
I do not know whether I had the power, but I thought the emergency required it should be done, and I ordered them closed, and I sent officers to see that they were kept closed.
I ordered them back to Walls station, and to go from there to Blairsville, which would be, I thought, almost necessary that Brinton should make a junction.
He ordered them to watch for the signal from thence, so that the allies might both commence the action together, and retire together, if he should sound a retreat.
There were seven sailors who had been concerned in the robbery, and Cortes, notwithstanding their officers interceded in their behalf, ordered them to be severely whipped.
And he ordered them to take up Don Martin Gonzalez, and they carried the body into his own lands, and he went with it, and Calahorra remained in the power of King Don Ferrando.
This tribe was celebrated for its bravery during the Government days; and now the Khalifa, who had already privately given his views on the matter to the judges, ordered them to be summoned before the Court.
Their detention by force was, therefore, quite illegal, and I ordered them to be at once sent back to their relatives.
Our men had begun to fire at the boats which had shoved off, but I ordered them to desist, as the Frenchmen had hauled down their flag, and were perfectly right in trying to make their escape.
Captain Olding, addressing the crew, ordered them on no account to fire, lest they might injure a friend instead of a foe.
They naturally supposed that I had a strong party with me, and when I ordered them to "fall in" they obeyed from habit.
As he met the fugitives he ordered them to turn back, reminding them that they were going the wrong way.
They had hardly entered the camp of Ariovistus, when he ordered them to be thrown into fetters, under pretence that they were spies.
At this news, Caesar called in his troops, ordered them to limit their efforts to repulsing the enemy as they retired, and hurried on before them to his fleet.
He ordered them to say to their fellow-countrymen that they must halt on the spot they then occupied, and await his arrival; and they obeyed.
The amorous pair were sorely disconcerted, and the alguazil, inveighing against the enormity of their conduct, ordered them to dress with all speed, and go with him to prison.
With cruelty, which will ever be an ineffaceable stigma upon his name, he ordered them all to be arrested, and their hands to be cut off.
Cortez accused them of the crime, and, notwithstanding their protestations of innocence, ordered them both to be hung.
I ordered them not to stop until they had reached the sea, and when they had discovered it, to take actual and corporal possession in the name of your majesty.
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