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My orders are to guard the pit, and I shall guard it.
The position of the soldiers was becoming critical, for they had received strict orders not to make use of their weapons until the last extremity.
Their little troop--a mere handful of men--opposed to the rising flood of miners, still held its own, however, and calmly executed the brief orders given by the captain.
He immediately gave orders to count the lamps.
He had had the cage unfastened, giving orders to replace it at the end of the cable by a tub; and as he feared that the water would extinguish his lamp, he had another fastened beneath the tub, which would protect it.
He made a gesture of despair, and gave orders that the mine should be evacuated at once.
The manager had received orders to organize a vast system of espionage, and then to dismiss quietly, one by one, the dangerous men who were suspected of having had a hand in the crime.
Twice he had tried to dig without orders, saying that it was there, that he was sure of it.
No doubt Zacharie, infuriate with the feeble vacillating light, which delayed his work, committed the imprudence of opening his lamp, although severe orders had been given for leakages of fire-damp had taken place, and the gas remained in enormous masses in these narrow, unventilated passages.
In Conseil I had a seasoned specialist in biological classification, an enthusiast who could run with acrobatic agility up and down the whole ladder of branches, groups, classes, subclasses, orders, families, genera, subgenera, species, and varieties.
Just then Commander Farragut was giving orders to cast off the last moorings holding the Abraham Lincoln to its Brooklyn pier.
These orders were executed, and the frigate swiftly retreated from this core of light.
The crew were waiting impatiently for orders from their leader.
He gave his orders.
The captain gave him his orders in that strange language I couldn't even identify.
Bony fish are subdivided into six orders.
"As for cartilaginous fish," Conseil went on unflappably, "they consist of only three orders."
In 1791, justly concerned about the fate of these two sloops of war, the French government fitted out two large cargo boats, the Search and the Hope, which left Brest on September 28 under orders from Rear Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux.
They were the actual military orders given by France's Minister of the Navy to Commander La Pérouse, with notes along the margin in the handwriting of King Louis XVI!"Ah, what a splendid death for a seaman!"
"I've given orders to open the hatches."
But this mystery would inevitably be cleared up, and soon, because Captain Nemo gave orders to increase speed; at once the engine stepped up its drive power, setting the propeller in swifter rotation.
I'll give orders to make for the Gulf of Mannar, and we'll arrive there late tonight."
Crustaceans are subdivided into nine orders, and the first of these consists of the decapods, in other words, animals whose head and thorax are usually fused, whose cheek-and-mouth mechanism is made up of several pairs of appendages, and whose thorax has four, five, or six pairs of walking legs.
But Captain Nemo gave no orders.
The captain went out, and soon I saw that at his orders, the Nautilus had halted its upward movement.
At his orders the craft was eased off, in other words, it was raised from its icy bed by a change in its specific gravity.
They all wore orders, and smiled silently as they made their strokes.
Why, at least, was not her husband one of those men of taciturn passions who work at their books all night, and at last, when about sixty, the age of rheumatism sets in, wear a string of orders on their ill-fitting black coat?
By the side of a Parisienne in her laces, in the drawing-room of some illustrious physician, a person driving his carriage and wearing many orders, the poor clerk would no doubt have trembled like a child; but here, at Rouen, on the harbour, with the wife of this small doctor he felt at his ease, sure beforehand he would shine.
Emma, on the pretext of giving orders, disappeared.
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