And when men are laid off they don't have money to spend, so retail trade slacks off some more, and that backs up inventories some more, and that backs up orders to factories and makes unemployment and hurts retail trade again.
I have given out contracts for rebuilding the house; also, I've sent orders east for furnishings.
So I jest let her set around an' shovel orders as though I wus the hired man.
Then she would wait for the government orders about the ranch, and, if she were allowed to keep it, she would sell the land as soon as possible and leave the country forever.
Then she'd shovel the orders hansum, in a voice that 'ud shame molasses.
Jacob Smith was waiting for him with a message from Julian Marbolt; hisorders were peremptory.
It is only through the sheriff backing the doctor's orders that you were not turned out of here before.
He would want to hold a cabinet meeting before he issued orders for the destruction of a space-ship that was only technically and not actually an enemy.
Bors gave curt orders to his subordinates in the work of record-destruction.
There was now a sullen, resigned submission to discipline and what orders might be given, but the fleet was fighting angry.
The idea of a government using booby-traps to enforce its orders somehow put it beyond forgiveness, and with the government all those who served it willingly.
Probably there have been ordersgiven to lure us to ground by the pretense of a successful revolt.
It could be a cruiser or something like that doing mail duty, coming to deliver ordersand receive reports.
Bors gave orders for it to head for Glamis immediately, in overdrive.
Then there were cracklings of communicators, andorders flittered through emptiness in scrambled and re-scrambled broadcasts of gibberish which came out as lucid commands in the control-rooms of the ships.
You'd be surprised how many orders and decorations a man can acquire by industry and organization--and Talents, Incorporated.
Give the coachman any orders that come into your head, sketch a round-about drive for me.
But, with special care, full orders were distributed throughout Spain.
During a severe illness in the year 1498 Aldo vowed to take holy orders if he should recover.
The mendicant orders and the country parsons, therefore, bore the brunt of their attack, while the whole tone of their discourse made it clear how little they respected the religion and the institutions of the Church.
A strict house-porter was engaged, with orders to exclude suspicious visitors.
He spent the greater portion of his life in Tuscany, occupied less with humanistic interests than with the reformation of monastic orders and the conduct of ecclesiastical affairs in the Councils of Basle and Florence.
Though Poggio's life for the following half-century was spent in the service of the Roman Curia, he refused to take orders in the Church, and remained at heart a humanist.
The cashiers received orders to honour the old scholar's drafts; and in this way Niccolo drew 500 ducats for his private needs.
Yet, however indispensable the scholars of the fifteenth century became, they rarely rose above the rank of Apostolic secretaries; while few of the professional humanists cared to takeorders in the Church.
In addition to about 700 florins of pay and perquisites, they, for the most part, entered into minor orders and held benefices.
And amongst men of all orders I beheld not a single one in the mansion of Yudhishthira that had not food and drink and ornaments.
And those amongst the Pitris that are called the Somapas, the Ekasringras, the Chaturvedas, and the Kalas, are ever worshipped amongst the four orders of men.
And all the other orders of men also were gratified at that sacrifice and filled with joy.
Be thou watchful and ready in protecting the four orders of thy subjects.
Like the huge earth that bears all kinds of produce, supporting things that are both good and evil, this child endued with great strength will support all the four orders of men.
And all orders of men, good, indifferent and low, belonging to numberless races, coming from diverse lands made Yudhishthira's habitation the epitome of the world.
The fifty shots he carried in each of his limber-chests would be quite enough to last him till orders should come to fall back across the stream again.
The officer addressed issued the necessary orders as quietly as a gentleman in his own house might bid a servant bring a glass of water for a thirsty guest.
A little later the battery with which we are concerned received its orders and was moved into position on the line.
Under orders Baillie fell back with the skirmishers, moving the guns by hand, and continuing to fire as he went.
If the guns are promptly forthcoming on my requisition, I'll be ready within two days to receiveorders to join you.
She gave orders instead, in a gentle way; and her word was law, by virtue of her grandfather's insistence that it should be so regarded, and still more by reason of something in herself that gently gave authority to her will.
To Agatha he said: "Remain here, you and the other ladies, unless orders come for you to leave.
What he did understand was that he was under orders to take his guns across the stream and use them there as vigorously as he could till further orders should come.
Take position with the skirmish-line and get your orders from its commander.
My orders are to look for that wound on every man I have reason to suspect, and I must do my duty.
A few minutes later a party of soldiers rode up and reported that they were under orders to search the house for an escaped Confederate officer.
Just then one of his men approached him, and announced that orders had come for the battery's return to its camp.
They kept the barn boss busy by riding back furiously in bunches to report nobody seen, to ask for further orders and to get a drink before reestablishing a patrol.
Stone, sullen, was gingerly approached by Bradley, under strict orders to keep out of reach of his arms.
In obeying orders she gave him nothing to complain of, but there was little relaxing of the tension between the two.
He assembled a noisy crew at the barn and despatched them singly with orders to scatter and watch the trail points outlying the town.
I desire you to send me word who it was that pretended to have my orders for the Indians to plunder and fight you.
Frontenac now sent back Captain de Ramsay with orders to Callieres, governor of Montreal, to descend immediately to Quebec with all the force at his disposal, and to muster the inhabitants on the way.
La Durantaye and his companions, with a hundred and eighty coureurs de bois and four hundred Indians, waited impatiently at Niagara for orders from the governor.
Talmage and his Connecticut militia were under ordersfrom Albany; and therefore, like Glen, they were under the popular ban.
It was that of the Chevalier de Vaudreuil, just come from Montreal, with positive orders from Denonville to run no risks and stand solely on the defensive.
Like La Barre before him, he had received orders from the court that, as the Iroquois were robust and strong, he should capture as many of them as possible, and send them to France as galley slaves.
A messenger, strongly escorted, was sent with orders to this effect, and succeeded in reaching Michillimackinac, though there was a battle on the way, in which the officer commanding the escort was killed.
Iberville returned to Placentia, to prepare for completing his conquest, when his plans were broken by the arrival of his brother Serigny, with orders to proceed at once against the English at Hudson's Bay.
His orders were to let the English pass, and then place himself in their rear to cut them off from their canoes.
He looked back with regret to the day when the three orders of the state, clergy, nobles, and commons, had a place and a power in the direction of national affairs.
Accordingly, he sentorders to the judge, at Montreal, to seize every coureur de bois on whom he could lay hands.
It was impossible to advance; and Winthrop, the commander, gave orders to return to Albany, leaving Phips to conquer Canada alone.
You was quicker at obeying orders in the old days, Conrad.
By the time my messengers had got hold of my scattered men and given them my orders to report to me at South Cove, it wanted but an hour of noon.
Surprised, and just a little annoyed at so unexpected a visit, he gaveorders for him to be shown upstairs.
Quinion, at Broadstone, and held a responsible position, which took him frequently to the Continent and other parts in executing the orders of the firm.
When Zutphen was taken by Don Frederic in 1572, at the beginning of the war, Motley tells us that "Alva sentorders to his son to leave not a single man alive in the city, and to burn every house to the ground.
Nearly all the inhabitants of Naarden, soldiers and citizens, were thus destroyed; and now Don Frederic issued peremptory orders that no one, on pain of death, should give lodging or food to any fugitive.
Whether we get our roses from British or from foreign growers, the orders should be sent out as early as possible in September and October, to secure the best plants and to ensure their arrival in good time.
It is advisable to order the plants early, as nurserymen execute orders in the order in which they are received, and planting should be done during the end of October and November; if not done then it must be deferred till February or March.
After this, the people, openly excited by the ministers, laughed at the rescripts of the king, and the orders of the council of state, and shook off all restraint.
These last orders were to the two machinists whom Andy had engaged to help him, and the bully gave himself no end of airs and importance as he bustled about.
Before there had been time for these orders to be carried out I received, on March 28th, a letter from President Steyn, giving me the following information: Mr. S.
I had given orders to Mr. Sarel Wessels, who had charge of the ammunition, to hold himself in readiness to proceed with it by rail, through the Transvaal, to Greylingstad as soon as he received orders to do so.
In the meantime, those portions of the Heilbron and Kroonstad commandos which had gone into Natal at the beginning of the war, received orders to leave the Drakensberg.
I heard them cheering, and thought that the enemy were about to attempt another attack, and so gave orders that whatever happened our positions must be held, for they were the key to General Cronje's escape.
While this was going on, Veldtcornet Wessels, in accordance with orders which I had given him the previous evening, had taken possession of the river bank exactly opposite to the town, which he was now preparing to storm.
I sent orders to Commandants Mentz, Van der Merwe, and Van Coller, to take a portion of Commandant Bester's burghers, telling them to go to Slangfontein.
My orders were that, at daybreak, they were to attack an English camp which was lying a mile to the north of the railway station at Rhenoster River, and close to some brick-coloured ridges.
My orders were that the mounted men were to proceed in advance, taking with them my little waggon drawn by eight mules.
If only the burghers had carried out my orders strictly, we should certainly have inflicted heavy losses on the English, even if we had not won a complete victory.
The first party, consisting of three hundred men with one Krupp, I despatched under Commandant Steenekamp to Vredefort Road Station, with orders to attack it the following day at sunrise.
I saw that the enemy was not strong enough to occupy the whole ridge, so I at once gave orders to General De Villiers to advance, and to seize the western end at a point just above the farmstead of Mostertshoek.
I thought that two hundred men had gone in accordance with my orders to that position.
I had given orders that all the cattle along the railway line should be removed; General Louis Botha had made the same regulation in regard to the country round Pretoria and Johannesburg.
Sir John then asked him if he would go to sea with him again, stating the orders he had received.
Killigrew saw this in the proper view, and once gave private orders to the king’s tailor to make one of his majesty’s coat-pockets of a most enormous size, and the other scarcely larger than a thimble.
Landry understood the gesture, for he nearly choked himself trying to swallow the bird at one mouthful, so eager was he to obey the orders of his fair mistress.
Perrine now came in to receive her master’s orders as to what wine she was to bring up.
When the recent serious events that had taken place at the Castle became generally known, orders were given to send four men and take up any suspicious looking person seen prowling about.
He wished everybody to hear him give his orders in a haughty voice, to hear the ring of his money.
The king cut short these useless recriminations, sent swift messengers to recall the divisions which had started early that morning, and gave orders that all those remaining in camp should hold themselves in readiness to attack.
The officers in command hadorders to interfere as little as possible in local affairs, and to leave the natives to dispute or even to fight among themselves unhindered, so long as their quarrels did not threaten the security of the Pharaoh.
These men below there are still, as a class, wonderfully patient and reasonable, quite prepared to take orders and recognise superior knowledge, wisdom and nobility.
And I'm standing by his ship 'cording to orders yet.
The Polly' is sailing under petticoat orders to-day and is scouring the waters in search of four boys that, we understand, you have here at Killykinick.
Just take back your ordersquick as you can, Aunt Winnie, I'm renting those rooms right now.
Give your orders now, Father; though God knows how I'll be able to keep this lot up to them.
I bet you wouldn't take any such orders if you were a boy.
Give post-office people orders not to let this out, most important.
The voice of Dyce shouting his orders through a trumpet from the quarter-deck seemed to be upborne like a straw on that vast and tremendous sweep of uproar.
Half an hour later, when the footman entered to ask for orders relative to the carriage sent back by the Countess, he found her standing motionless at the window from which she had watched Dorsenne depart.
We will leave orders for the management of things during our absence.
A fine imposed upon the lay property of a clerk in holyorders shall be assessed upon the same principles, without reference to the value of his ecclesiastical benefice.
While the slaves were engaged in scooping up the hole, Golah called the two guards; and gave them some orders about continuing the journey.
Neither entreaties nor threats could induce him to go farther; and Rais Mourad gave orders to his followers to halt upon the spot, saying that he should stay there for the remainder of the night.
Rais Mourad gave ordersto his followers to prepare for the road; and just as they were ready to start, he requested Bo Muzem to accompany him outside the walls of the city.
Rais Mourad, paying no attention to this threat, gave orders to his followers to move on; and, although it was now almost night, he started off in the direction of Agadeer.
The sudden change of purpose and the counter-orders given by Jim were caused by something he had just heard while listening to the conversation of the Arabs.
As soon as they were out of sight Golah gave orders to reload the animals, and resume the interrupted march.
