Meanings of obey only in English

They're like domestic animals, those instruments, and they obey only their master.

People here obey only so long as they gain by so doing.

The tribe is very numerous, but the different hordes obey only their own chieftains.

People obey only if they can gain by so doing.

Furies obey only one lord: Hades.

That he advised the Bailly of Utrecht to obey only the Deputies of Holland or the States of Utrecht.

My trees and bushes obey only me and the eternal laws implanted in their nature, and which I know.

Rousseau, having promised that each man shall obey only himself, presently puts us off with a condition equal for all.

Sometimes they obey only their own unerring instincts, as in that vivid situation of the shy, departing suitor when Karin coffee cups declares herself betrothed.

We are subjects of King Kleaver, and obey only his orders, which are to bring all prisoners to him as soon as they are captured.

He retraced his steps, making no plans, obeying only an ungovernable instinct.

He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite.

That which is deepest within us obeys only the laws of its need.

The virus obeys only the laws of physics, chemistry and biology.

She obeyed only the impulse her Creator had kindled within her.

Secondly, he is absolutely loyal... he obeys only me but he obeys me completely.