1 After a while the Tsar's decree came: to set the merchant free and give him a compensation that had been awarded.
2 Napoleon III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico.
3 Napoleon I issues a decree and an army enters Russia.
4 Against such a decree there was no Delaware sufficiently hardy to murmur, much less oppose himself.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 5 Not a limb was moved, nor was a breath drawn louder and longer than common, until the closing syllable of this final decree had passed the lips of Tamenund.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 6 He announced that, by a special decree of Comrade Napoleon, 'Beasts of England' had been abolished.
7 As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death.
8 So he had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE GOLDEN GOOSE 9 I, in my stiff-necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it.
10 Alexey Alexandrovitch was immediately interested in the subject, and began seriously defending the new imperial decree against Princess Betsy, who had attacked it.
11 The treaty was signed three days ago at Bucharest; and the decree for our army to demobilize was issued yesterday.
12 There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when the penal laws decree a shipwreck.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN 13 Thine eyes shall see the city Lavinium, their promised home; thou shalt exalt to the starry heaven thy noble Aeneas; nor is my decree reversed.
14 Human or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees.
15 Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.