Example Sentences

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As Laurent went off, he exchanged a rapid glance with Therese, a glance full of urgent enjoinment.

From Theresa Raquin by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

This she set out to him not once, but many and many a time, and the boy, who was quick of wit, punctually obeyed the enjoinment of his discreet nurse.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

The enjoinment of self-criticism and self-culture seems a simpler and less circumstantial rule of life.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)

Not one of us dared break the Xosa’s enjoinment to strict silence, and thus we proceeded.

From A Frontier Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

The slanting posture of the one was a sort of fierce rebuke; the sleeping attitude of the other was a dark and sullen enjoinment of silence.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)