The convocation of a council of matrons offers us two chances: if Joan submits to the disgraceful examination she may be declared a strumpet; if she refuses, her refusal makes against her!
It is for the Pope to know whether he obeys God, and for me to obey him who submits to God.
Instead of aspiring to Conversion to a higher Type he submits by a law of his nature to Reversion to a lower.
There, during a period varying from a few days to several years, he submits himself to all sorts of exhausting and unnatural exercises.
If he is to understand the practices to which he submits on the death of a parent, a man is obliged to believe that these are not an indifferent matter for the deceased.
It requires that, forgetful of our own interests, we make ourselves its servitors, and it submits us to every sort of inconvenience, privation and sacrifice, without which social life would be impossible.
After his namatuna has penetrated into the body of the woman, the ancestor himself enters her and voluntarily submits to a new birth.
When the believer imposes privations upon himself and submits himself to austerities, it is in order to disarm the malevolence attributed by him to certain of the sacred beings upon whom he thinks that he is dependent.
A rival power rises up before it which, being born of it, ever after submits it to its criticism and control.
In which Harry submits to the Common Lot Hard times were now over with me, and I had to battle with poverty no more.
If the United States submits to a division now, it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war.
She submits unquestioningly to the custom requiring that the wife treat these women with all civility.
The great world Rolls to thine eye revealed; to thee the Deep Submits its awful empire; Industry Awakes, and Commerce to the echoing marts From east to west unwearied pours her wealth.
The ancients, indeed, did not ask why nature submits to laws, but why it is ordered according to genera.
On the other hand, in the organized world, the death of individuals does not seem at all like a diminution of "life in general," or like a necessity which life submits to reluctantly.
Again: The supposition that a prostitute submits to but one act of prostitution every day is "ridiculously small.
He submits to the wrongs of an injurious master in silence.
Quietness and retirement, the temper that rather submits than resents, and this allied to the relaxing indulgence of domestic, if not animal, life, appear in him.
The Secretary of War submits the report of the Chief of Engineers as to the practicability of protecting our important cities on the seaboard by fortifications and other defenses able to repel modern methods of attack.
The report of the Postmaster-General presents a most satisfactory condition of the postal service and submits recommendations which deserve the consideration of Congress.
The emperor yields, humbles himself, and submits to the regulations of the bishop, and religion and humanity gain an immortal triumph.
He submits it to the railway officers in the ordinary daily course of business, and almost invariably gets the matter adjusted.
Under this proposed amendment the carrier submits a proposition to advance the rate, which has never become effective.
With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate.
It must be English for some one, sir, I think," Mr. Snagsby submits with his deferential cough.
Membership account of the administration to the may vary somewhat: Reichstag, andsubmits the annual budget.
Every breathing thing in the kingdom submits to me through fear, friendship or admiration.
But one does not arrange one's own destiny, one submitsto it.
But one does not make one's destiny, one submits to it.
Another thing, too, he submits to which astonishes me more than anything else.
This, however, he chearfully submits to, and she makes him proper returns of fondness.
The colonel hath kept Miss Matthews ever since, and is at length grown to doat on her (though now very disagreeable in her person, and immensely fat) to such a degree, that he submits to be treated by her in the most tyrannical manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "submits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
