1 Princess Mary, alarmed by her father's feverish and sleepless activity after his previous apathy, could not bring herself to leave him alone and for the first time in her life ventured to disobey him.
2 He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey.
3 His Majesty the Emperor and King protects them, and considers no one among you his enemy except those who disobey his orders.
4 The doctor said he must have fresh air and if he wants us to take him out no one dare disobey him.
5 This was the first time Morrel had ever so spoken, but he said it in a tone of paternal kindness, and Julie did not dare to disobey.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September. 6 I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.
7 And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
8 To fight, that was to disobey the law, that was to risk his head, that was to make at one blow an enemy of a minister more powerful than the king himself.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS 9 But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captive.
10 But the men disobeyed my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captives.
11 Aunt Hester had not only disobeyed his orders in going out, but had been found in company with Lloyd's Ned; which circumstance, I found, from what he said while whipping her, was the chief offence.
12 Both she and my son disobeyed me in marrying; therefore I have no interest in their households.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 13 He had never once disobeyed or allowed turbulent companions to seduce him from his habit of quiet obedience; and, even when he doubted some statement of a master, he had never presumed to doubt openly.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 14 And this is certain, that where things hard to execute are ordered to be done, the order must be enforced with sternness, since, otherwise, it will be disobeyed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ... 15 You are disobeying the regulations, my friend.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER II—THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT