Sentence examples for her precepts from inspiring English sources

"I care not a turd for the Queen nor her precepts," says a certain Mary Bunton in a trial transcript.

She was very attractive, and they wanted to follow her precepts as much as possible, such as not dancing, not attending the theatre, etc.

The language itself is levelled here Xie's gift for striking imagery withheld in order to give her precepts heft and authority.

But, I am following another one of her precepts -- counting backwards.

Mrs. Wollstonecraft appears to have reflected maturely on her subject; … while her manner gives authority, her good sense adds irresistible weight to almost all her precepts and remarks.

Her culinary precepts, though not her book, outlasted her by more than a hundred and fifty years — as evidenced by the preachy vegetarian communes and collectives that began to proliferate in this country in the sixties and seventies, when a generation of postwar babies came of age.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

While there, she began to question not only her family's precepts but her identity as a painter.

Her success in the White House has had as much to do with her comfort with herself as with what might be her central precept: never believe that there is a room you have no right to walk into.

After a lower court ruled in the couple's favor, Davis defied the order and sued the Kentucky governor for making her choose between "abandoning the precepts of her religion and forfeiting her position," according to her lawsuit.

She now commenced to practise her husband's precepts.