orders

• For I can't condone disobedience of orders, when the orders are as important as they are in this case. —  Pohl, Frederik ; Williamson, Jack - [Undersea 03] - Undersea City [MNQ]
• When the orders are all in, the quantities called for will be added up by this central board; and then one man, representing the board, will be in a position to go to America to purchase the four million bales of cotton or two hundred million pounds of copper. —  My Four Years in Germany
• His doctor had given him his orders--orders which possibly he might not have taken had not the spectre of a lonely old man in total darkness begun to haunt him. —  The Christmas Peace 1908
• Thirlby said sadly that the appeal could not be received; his orders were absolute to proceed Footnote 535: Cranmer to a Lawyer: Jenkins, vol i. p. 384 The robes were stripped off in the usual way. —  The Reign of Mary Tudor
• The privateer's men now made their appearance from below, having helped themselves to everything they could find: the orders were then given for the prisoners to be brought upon deck; they were driven up, many of them bleeding from wounds received in attempts to rescue their personal property, and were handed over to the lugger. —  Poor Jack

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