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A constitution or edict is what the king or emperor enacts or proclaims.
We are entertainers: we who paint pictures, or tell stories, or enact history.
This piece of rural pantomime, this bucolic, is enacted before me every day.
His manners were conciliatory, and he endeavored through life to enact the gentleman.
Similar laws have been enacted wherever there is an appreciable number of Indians.
To silence the murmurs of an oppressed people, a sedition law was enacted.
His departure was a general signal for "the enemy" to enact reprisals.
"Here we don't enact farces, but sit in judgment," answered the pastor.
They will be rescinded when the broader, but necessary legislation is enacted.
How can I enact a farce by appearing for those difficult finals?
For the time, however, secession seems to have a providential part to enact.
The attack occurred a little before daybreak, and some terrible scenes were enacted.
A court, whether ecclesiastical or civil, has nothing to do with enacting laws.
Plenty of romances and not a few tragedies are enacted or consummated here.
Four new counties were created, taxes were levied, and a number of laws enacted.
A significant silence pervaded the gathering whilst this scene was being enacted.
Do you think it is a tragedy that is being enacted by those youngsters?
This was but the apotheosis; the drama was enacted in the foreground.
That cause was symbolized by the scene that was enacted that day.
Thus was its execution obstructed, and the provisions enacted by it made ineffectual.
The piteous tragedy was enacted in all its terror and pathos to May.
The sorrow and anger here are well enacted, being neither overdone nor forced.
It failed to pass as a single measure, but was broken up and enacted piecemeal.
The drama of life was enacted within the circle of his own self-consciousness.
The rites of marriage were very formally enacted, and very rigidly adhered to.
Laws ostensibly enacted for the benefit of labor have been distorted against labor.
What a number of pageants were enacted that day and those which followed!
Then further laws were enacted against combined strikes, intimidation of the employed, etc.
Pembroke lived to enact a conspicuous part in the long and sanguinary struggle.
She enacted the entire scene, and burlesqued the Leading Lady in fine style.
They were enclosed in 1758 and the plunder divided, as by law enacted.
Eva had seen this same kind of stratagem enacted before, and thought it "fun."
Enact a resident license law, and provide for a force of paid game wardens.
With a great air of importance, laws were enacted to govern the gory business.
This same Thames program and tableau were enacted each of the two succeeding nights.
Again the farce of a ballot and the farce of a protest was enacted.
Yet, even there today, statutes are demanded and sometimes enacted in derogation of them.
Many were the heroic deeds enacted in that hour of terrible and sanguinary strife.
The marvelous story of humanity is enacted again for our edification, instruction, and delight.
This authority can, of course, modify or abrogate what it originally sanctioned or enacted.
In enacting the laws above enumerated the Congress proceeded on sane and conservative lines.
At that moment a little farce was being enacted a mile up the road.
To enact her as a heroic personage makes her exchange of the potions inexplicable.
The scene is being enacted in the shadowed arcade of an imposing classical building.
Then was enacted one of those ghastly farces common at the time in Spain.
The law had been enacted in consequence of the great increase of Chinese immigration.
Her attention was focussed upon the scene that was being enacted before her.
Dark, sanguinary, and bloody tragedies were constantly enacted upon the frontiers for generations.
Its evident intention was to cover up the farce enacted by the committees.
To enact otherwise would be to make a freehold title little more than a farce.
His smile simply emphasized the cynicism of the story enacted in his sight.
It enacted the homestead law; and it has girded the continent with railways.
"How can she be very happy with the guillotine daily enacting such murders?"
Finally, after the farce of conversion solemnly enacted, Henry entered his good town.
By this delicate piece of enacted flattery he 'spoiled a cloak and made a fortune.'
The scenes which were enacted around the canteen in the early morning are indescribable.
The spectators remained breathlessly unconscious of anything save the scene being enacted before them.
In 1488 a statute was enacted prohibiting the turning of tillage land into pasture.
His imaginary vision of the old-time trapper had been enacted before his very eyes.
He now took off his boots, the better to enact the part of burglar.
Laws were also enacted in 1909, legalizing cock fighting and establishing the national lottery.
If a pernicious law is enacted by congress, or a state legislature, it is soon repealed.
Yet, remote as was this moor-edge hamlet, a sordid tragedy had been enacted there.
On all sides similar scenes were being enacted and like reminiscences were being exchanged.
The weird prologue of the drama was enacted some years ago, yet time, alas!
With wildly beating heart Lucile stared at the panorama that was enacted before her.
And the Fathers had really been allowed to enact some beneficent and useful measures.
To prevent the great mischiefs ... that thereby may ensue, be it enacted ...
That afternoon, the assembly enacted the renewal of the covenant by particular synods.
Cried the doctor, retreating from the furious pantomime Frederic enacted after these words.
We are even told that the scenes of the French Revolution will be enacted here.
No wonder then that so many statutes were enacted in parliament to encourage this handicraft
Here were enacted some of the most stirring stories and tempestuous times in American history.
A school law enacted at this session was an enlightened and detailed piece of legislation.
Coleman will descend from his pedestal and enact the part of Bob Hawkins.
At the same time, see you to it that no more atrocities are enacted in my presence.
Nothing was seen or heard here of the sanguinary piece being enacted at the front.
He telegraphed to me that a conspiracy was afloat to enact a kind of petticoat government.
They were enacted in reigns distinguished for the production of great and enlightened characters.
I felt incredulous and amazed; it seemed as if a dream were being enacted before me.
These are the scenes to be enacted here, Shown to you straightway in a simple guise.
Tim shook his head and enacted the pantomime of drawing and throwing a knife.
The firesides resounded with tales of terror enacted in this lonely and ominous theater.
It was to remedy this disorder that the great edict of 1726 was enacted.
Bob was a deeply pained spectator of the wordless drama that was being enacted.
The terrible scene enacted at the repulse of the previous attack was now repeated.
As she was going by, the sailors enacted a little pantomime of their own.
The Statute of Winchester was superseded, and a new Act enacted in its place.
Where was the United States Indian Bureau, while this disgraceful scene was being enacted?
He exclaimed, leaping from his horse; "some work of hell is being enacted here!"
Through her influence, many salutary laws were enacted to relieve the disabilities of the people.
The laws enacted to prevent drunkenness at various periods and by different governments, are curious.
Or Strollers are they, furnished to enact Fair Rosamond and the Children of the Wood?
Who are they, however, that have enacted laws by which your audacity could be repressed?
In the meantime a scene which she little dreamt of was enacted at the vicarage.
In 1804 a tariff was enacted on iron and on glassware, with unquestionably protective intent.
The scenes enacted in the three towns during the bombardment and afterwards were tragic.
Fifty years had elapsed since the last similar pageant had been enacted in Hungary.
I entertain little doubt that it was so contrived with a view to enacting some mischief.
It enacted a law to protect freedmen in Alabama in their rights of person and property.