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• Have I authority? (8)
• But when I was asked for my authority! (14)
• I have no authority over me. (10)
• There is plenty of authority for it. (14)
• She managed to hint at his authority. (10)
• Authority questioned all over the place. (8)
• My authority for the tale was positive. (10)
• Pemberton spoke with a kind of authority. (13)
• There is no authority, no responsible head. (18)
• Whole centuries of authority stood behind him. (8)
• My authority in the matter has now come to an end. (18)
• Doctor Benjamin Bairam was the excellent authority. (10)
• I had no reason to believe her of less authority now. (4)
• I only tell you what I have heard on good authority. (10)
• He had tried the voice of authority, and was laughed at. (10)
• Irish rebellion against constituted authority was exhibited. (10)
• It is the vital principle of my authority to insist on that. (10)
• I must have social authority to succeed in our main enterprise. (10)
• It is propped up in the seat of authority and duly instated in power. (7)
• Not even in a trifle would she consent to be subordinate to authority. (10)
• To be held a prisoner by that most secret of all his instincts, the instinct for authority! (8)
• He was cool and assured, and spoke with the kindly authority of a husband. (13)
• I hear upon authority that she dresses in white, and wears a black crucifix. (10)
• His authority was now to be thought of: his paternal sanction was in his own keeping. (10)
• Nor was he unhurt by her superior acuteness and her display of authority on his grounds. (10)
• But perhaps this was because the Huguenots did not acknowledge the authority of the Pope. (19)
• By degrees, the visible asserted its authority; his look on the coin fell to speculating. (10)
• But only those who conform to authority have the right to wield authority. (8)
• The vice-consul made none of those shows of authority which Mrs. Lander had expected of him. (9)
• Jenny, premising that she was no authority, stated she imagined she had heard that they were. (10)
• She noticed that even Mr. Whitford forbore to alarm the sentiment of authority in his cousin. (10)
• Is not the subject simple, pure from offence to sensitive authority, constitutionally harmless? (10)
• It was pleasant to hear her speak with the full authority of absolute knowledge of her subject. (10)
• On the march, silence was proclaimed, and partially enforced, after two fights against authority. (10)
• She had a kind of authority in sending Kenby away with them which was not lost upon the witnesses. (9)
• Why did Ferdinand speak to her with that air of gentle authority, bidding her return to the house? (10)
• He sat there, paying only moderate attention to a subject on which he was acknowledged an authority. (8)
• If the law is going to enter private houses and abrogate domestic authority, where the hell shall we be? (8)
• Critics of high authority have unhesitatingly awarded him the highest rank among American-born composers. (3)
• Nor can we say that he is not an authority on this point: the Goddess certainly does not deal in coppers. (22)
• Upon such intelligence the general had proceeded; for never had it occurred to him to doubt its authority. (4)
• Luckily for the future of Canada under the British flag, a strong, brave man sat in the seat of authority. (19)
• As he became rational, he ought to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority. (4)
• Laws and authority are not the be-all and end-all, they are conveniences, machinery, conduit pipes, main roads. (8)
• One of the greatest living teachers in authority and breadth of influence is =Theodor Leschetizky=, born in 1831. (3)
• That fiction of vested rights is the stock corporation under the genius and authority of the Common Law of England. (18)
• But he meant to relinquish no more authority than his wife who frankly kept the name as well as duty of house-keeper. (9)
• They were not really so fruitless but that at the end of them she could go with due authority to look up her husband. (9)
• To be unable to wield authority because to wield authority was to insult authority. (8)
• He was startled at the new force in her voice, the sign of a will erecting itself with its own authority against him. (13)
• The feverish stimulation of cupidity and the fascination of terror held him to his dismal work with an iron authority. (1)
• The king has sent his accredited messenger Tartini to the Provisional Government, requesting it to accept his authority. (10)
• If this assumption of official authority did not awe Clementina, at least it put a check upon her headlong self-sacrifice. (9)
• She cited Vernon Whitford for her authority that the train had been inspected, and the platform scoured to find the professor. (10)
• It is not recorded that any lawyer ever rebelled against the iron authority of these conditions and stood for truth and conscience. (7)
• They had set it in authority over American literature, and it was not for me to put myself in authority over them. (9)
• Christine dreaded her authority on other points, but Mela said she knew she would not interfere, and she undertook to get round her. (9)
• At once the man threw out his fingers, accompanied by an amazingly voluble delivery of his reasons for this revolt against her authority. (10)
• Now and then he acts simply under instruction from higher authority, and denounces because it is the tradition of his publication to do so. (9)
• A resplendent beadle in a cocked hat, and with along staff of authority posed before his own ecclesiastical consciousness in blue and silver. (9)
• Below them, with his face toward the public, was placed a gray-bearded man at a table also covered with green baize, that emblem of authority. (8)
• Night and day he was haunted by the thought: How can I, living in defiance of authority, pretend to authority over my fellows? (8)
• No comrade was so disloyal and unchivalrous as to carry the story to those in authority, but soon the love-making conveyed itself to their very eyes. (21)
• Like all average men, he was a believer in authority, and none the less because authority placed a large portion of itself in his hands. (8)
• Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance. (4)

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