obeys

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Obeys command, "Give the hand." 13th, 14th, 15th Months—Says "Papa" and "Mama."

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.

Reprove not him, whose tongue, with grief distraught, Obeys not, in dark storms, the helm of thought!

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

A Girl Scout Obeys Orders This means that you should obey those to whom obedience is due, through thick and thin.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

Poesy's sacred sorcery Obeys a world-plan wise and good; In silence let it swell the flood Of mighty-rolling harmony.

From The Poems of Schiller — Second period by Schiller, Friedrich