Sentence Examples

1. Has my treachery and disobedience brought grave misfortune upon Matthaios?
2. My head is not one of those the executioner strikes off for disobedience.
3. The younger man was slumped in his chair as his gaze wavered about the room in obvious disobedience.
4. But that discontent and civil disobedience always fell short of revolution because boring old British reserve got in the way.
5. A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks.
6. His nature was such, that, accustomed to command, he trembled at the idea of disobedience.
7. Someone who failed to carry out a Supreme Order through a direct act of disobedience dons the mantle of being Unreliable.
8. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State, than it would to obey.
9. When I converse with the freest of my neighbors, I perceive that, whatever they may say about the magnitude and seriousness of the question, and their regard for the public tranquillity, the long and the short of the matter is, that they cannot spare the protection of the existing government, and they dread the consequences of disobedience to it to their property and families.
10. de Bragelonne was a well-disciplined officer, this disobedience to the orders of monseigneur very much surprised everybody, and M.