"Rule in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... want any common people at my Court." I suggested that the Japanese custom could be followed, viz.: to issue proper invitation cards, stipulating at the foot the dress to be worn on each particular occasion. Her Majesty thought this would meet the case and it was decided to introduce a similar rule in China. ...
— Two Years in the Forbidden City • The Princess Der Ling
... bandage on a limb. The ancients, performing the operation with rude implements and having no haemostatic remedies or appliances, naturally followed the best means at their command; they evidently feared haemorrhage, and their rule in regard to exemption shows us that they recognized the existence of haemorrhagic diathesis or other transmissible peculiarities of constitution. This same fear of haemorrhage probably suggested the second step of the operation being performed, as it is by laceration instead of by cutting instruments, ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... excess, and always excess, and all manner of dishonor. Strength is created by adversity, by trying to win first the small battles of life, then the great, by casting out fear, by training the mind to rule in all things—the heart, the passions, the impulses, which if indulged make the brain the slave instead of the master. Success, for which alone a man lives, if he be honest with himself, comes to those who are strong, ...
— The California Birthday Book • Various
... are only found as a general rule in the blood of old cases, or in the acute, well marked cases. The plants are so few, you said, that it was difficult to encounter them sometimes. So also of those who have had the ague ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 • Various
... not maintain such iniquity, they will give her head to the axe even as her sister's. But with the help of the witch Ftatateeta she hath cast a spell on the Roman Julius Caesar to make him uphold her false pretence to rule in Egypt. Take notice then that I will not suffer—that I will not suffer—(pettishly, to Pothinus)—What is it that ...
— Caesar and Cleopatra • George Bernard Shaw
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