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obeys

  • present tense form of obey (3rd person singular).

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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

In arms intrepid, with the first he fought, Faced every foe, and every danger sought; His winged lance, resistless as the wind, Obeys each motion of the master's mind!

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

For every God Obeys the hymn, obeys the ode.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Is it choice when man Obeys the might of destiny, that brings The awful hour?

From The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Schiller, Friedrich

The blind young boy Obeys the spell, And troth they all have plighted!

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