obeys

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And see, each rippling streamlet, mount and sod Obeys the mandate sent to it from God, To do the work to each by Heaven assigned, And in its due performance joy to find.

From Home Lyrics by Battersby, H. S. (Hannah S.)

Reprove not him, whose tongue, with grief distraught, Obeys not, in dark storms, the helm of thought!

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Indeed Solon seems to have been the first to perceive that a people "Obeys its rulers best, When not too free, yet not too much opprest."

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

A Girl Scout Obeys Orders This means that you should obey those to whom obedience is due, through thick and thin.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

Obeys the spell, They'll soon employ They'll soon employ A marriage bell, A marriage bell, Their troth they all To say that we're To say that we're have plighted. united. united.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir