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Definition of the day : « govern »
- verb take control; rule
- verb influence; hold in check
- Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- For, Madam, could I be supposed to govern the passions of either of the gentlemen?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- It was composed of the grim psychological laws that govern the abnormal.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- It is too apt to govern itself by what a bold spirit is encouraged to expect of it.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- You know that I am sensitive and brave, and that it is my character to govern.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- But that is but the vision of a second; my mind has been thinking of the soul that is to govern this personage.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- I should govern him as I pleased, he solemnly assured me, in every thing.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- A woman must persuade men by gentleness—not govern them by force.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- How differently did the Romans and the Greeks govern themselves?
- Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
- We'll see whether boys are to govern men, or men are to govern boys.'
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens