Use penalty in a sentence
Sentences ending with penalty
- I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
- But, unfortunately for those who are tempted, issues are never put quite so plainly by the heralds of destiny and penalty. [11]
- Under such circumstances the gods themselves cannot separate the individual from the multitude; nay, even the innocent animals share the penalty. [10]
- He did not realise his crimen--or its penalty. [11]
- They were little likely to forego his penalty. [11]
- Beaten by his illegitimate son at the polls, the victim of his own wrong-doing--the sacrifice of penalty! [11]
- That was his idea of punishment and penalty. [11]
- When once you have played shuttlecock with human life, you have to play it to the end--that is the penalty. [11]
- He ran the cruel thing through his fingers as does a prison expert the cat-o'-nine-tails before laying on the lashes of penalty. [11]
- He wears the collar, and he had to pay the penalty. [5]
Sentences containing penalty two or more times
- She was not only forbidden, by ancient law, and under penalty of death, to eat with her husband or enter a canoe, but was debarred, under the same penalty, from eating bananas, pine-apples, oranges and other choice fruits at any time or in any place. [5]
- The utmost penalty of the outraged law would be exacted, and upon the accused, now present at the bar, that penalty would unquestionably be executed. [5]
- My penalty was my penalty, and I paid it to the full, piastre by piastre of my body and my mind. [11]
More example sentences with the word penalty in them
- That it was your brother was an accident, and--" "It was an accident that the penalty must fall on Claridge Pasha, and on you, madame. [11]
- He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
- As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned. [11]
- A wise company would not arm you with so drastic an order as this, of course, without appointing a penalty for its infringement. [5]
- Indeed, I often wondered why this very penalty was not imposed. [9]
- Here, in Egypt, where she had first felt the stir of life's passion and pain and penalty, here, now, she lost herself in a beautiful, buoyant dream. [11]
- By the trenches, where five men had died so bravely, and a traitorous pasha had paid the full penalty of a crime and won a soldier's death, David spoke to his living comrades. [11]
- He knew that what the old quack said was true--the West might shake with scandal concerning a few who, no doubt, in remorse and secret fear, had more than paid the penalty of their offences. [11]
- If the Seigneur were killed in the encounter--he must defend himself now-- what a miserable notoriety and possible legal penalty and public punishment! [11]
- Was she waiting until he should have crossed the bar before she should pay some inexorable penalty of which he knew nothing? [9]
- Is it well to turn the penalty for a bloody crime into a reward? [5]
- The chief drawback to the pleasure is the feeling that I am submitting to that inevitable exposure which is the penalty of authorship in every form. [6]
- It was left to the man of the reedy lake to pay the penalty of apprehension, to suffer the effects of crime upon a nature not naturally criminal. [11]
- He would go to Rosalie, look into her eyes, and tell her that he loved her, no matter what the penalty of fate. [11]
- Everything was done to make me enjoy my visit to Oxford, but I was suffering from a severe cold, and was paying the penalty of too much occupation and excitement. [6]
- Just now if these clubs could suddenly become universal, and the penalty be enforced, we could have the means of paying off the national debt in a year. [4]
- Yet she seemed then, as she always appeared to be, free from any action that should set the machine of penalty going against herself. [11]
- Better himself in the worst light, with the full penalty, than his own confession--in itself an insult. [11]
- But to pay the vulgar penalty of prison--ah! [11]
- When society calls the roll, we all know the penalty of being left out. [4]
- I am paying the penalty of fame. [9]
- We cannot escape the penalty due for sin. [5]
- She would rather that he had believed everything against her, and had made an open scandal, because then she could have paid any debt due to him by the penalty most cruel a woman can bear. [11]
- She would not taste it, and it became necessary to enforce that extreme penalty of the law which had been threatened, but never yet put in execution. [6]
- Yet I am sure, that, in the nature of things, many minds must change their key now and then, on penalty of getting out of tune or losing their voices. [6]
- He was never so much worth respect as when, a dispossessed sovereign with an empty title, discountenanced by his order, disbarred his profession, he held himself ready to take whatever penalty now came. [11]
- The precious minutes slipped by; among so many bewitching songsters he found it hard to choose, and all the harder because the promised penalty for an error was so terrible that it unsettled his judgment and made him afraid to trust his own ears. [5]
- Long experience has shown that armies cannot be maintained unless desertion shall be punished by the severe penalty of death. [7]
- It would almost seem as if, having paid his penalty, the brain was at rest. [11]
- The penalty, he said, was outrageous, hitherto unheard of in law,--putting a corporation in the hands of a receiver, at the mercy of those who coveted it, because one of its officers refused, or was unable, to testify. [9]
- The penalty of refusal or avoidance was confiscation. [5]
- He will not protect himself, and, if penalty followed folly, should now be in his grave. [11]
- I have here"--he placed his hand on a book--"the Statutes of Victoria, and it lays down with wholesome severity the law concerning the theft of the affection of a wife, with the accompanying penalty, going as high as twenty thousand dollars. [11]
- Or was it Penalty, or Nemesis, or that Destiny which will have its toll for all it gives of beauty, or pleasure, or pride, or place, or pageantry? [11]
- It is the penalty that we pay for the freedom of republican opportunity that some must be very rich. [4]
- Men pay the penalty of their mistakes. [11]
- Death is the penalty of perjury. [10]
- That is the penalty of being inconsistent. [11]
- Death was the penalty for all these offenses. [4]
- According to his penalty David had never come to Hamley village, but had lived alone, speaking to no one, avoided by all, working out his punishment. [11]
- Welemisl was to pay the same penalty in money as Herdegen had paid, and in consideration of their having thus made atonement for the blood they had shed, and as their victims had escaped death, they were released from the doom of outlawry. [10]
- One magistrate in particular, a Judge Hennessy, was hated above all others for giving the extreme penalty of the law, and even stretching it. [9]
- The vagabond had paid his penalty, but desired no more of earth. [11]
- There is only one other view to take: that Mrs. Eddy did really foresee that there would be singers who would some day get tired of doing her hymns and proclaiming the authorship, unless persuaded by a Bylaw, with a penalty attached. [5]
- And even if one granted it were not a jest, it is a fault so small that e'en the grimmest penalty it could call forth would be but a rebuke and warning from the judge's lips. [5]
- My penalty came on in a strong headache as soon as the Bishop was gone: how thankful I was that it had patiently waited his departure. [14]
- Yet she talked on gaily to her guests until the men returned from their cigars; as though Penalty and Nemesis were outside even the range of her imagination; as though she could not hear the snap of the handcuffs on Rudyard's--or Ian's--wrists. [11]
- Whoever killed one of these animals, whether intentionally or by accident, suffered the penalty, of death, without any chance of mercy. [10]
- But the penalty of having an opinion of his own and expressing it was a serious one, and he accepted it as cheerfully as any of Queen Mary's martyrs accepted his fiery baptism. [6]
- In the carelessness of annoyance, Gering left part of his sword arm uncovered, while he was meditating a complex attack, and he paid the penalty by getting a sharp prick from Iberville's sword-point. [11]
- If the officers of a home corporation who are outside of the state refuse to testify, the penalty will be that the ration goes into the hands of a receiver. [9]
- For penalty he must have it coarsely flung in his face in the presence of these people--people in whose countenances was already beginning to dawn an uncharitable enjoyment of the situation. [5]
- It's all a muddle; I can't make head or tail of it; it never happened before; they always knocked under and never said a word, and so I never saw how ridiculous that stupid order with no penalty is. [5]
- Next time I make a contract before writing the book, may I suffer the righteous penalty and be burnt, like the injudicious believer. [5]
- To have imagination is unquestionably to possess a great capacity for suffering, and Honora was paying the penalty for hers. [9]
- It was the irony of penalty that the one person in the world who could really sting him was this unacknowledged, almost unknown woman. [11]
- When I was in London twenty-three years ago there was a new penalty in force for diminishing garroting and wife-beating--25 lashes on the bare back with the cat-o'-nine-tails. [5]
- What's the penalty if I don't go? [11]
- Like a man, I would pay the penalty Fate should set. [11]
- Should he break his word, he was to be banished the island for ten years, under penalty of death if he returned. [11]
- He knew in his soul that he was now doing the right thing, that he had come out in the open where all the archers of penalty had a fair target for their arrows. [11]
- Whereupon we go heavily to hard beds of despair, having eaten the cake we bought, and now must pay for unto Penalty, the dark inordinate creditor. [11]
- As Orlando fought, he was tortured by the thought that none would believe the truth to-morrow when it was told; and that there would be penalty though there was no crime. [11]
- The lightest penalty he could inflict must be banishment from Egypt. [10]
- But time--he must have time; therefore he would do Rudyard's bidding, and read this thing he had written, look at it with eyes in which Penalty was gathering its mists. [11]
- He knew Byng's great, generous nature, and he dreaded the inconsistency which such men show--forgiving and forgetting when the iron penalty should continue and the chains of punishment remain. [11]
- It was a gift of hers, or a penalty of her life, perhaps, that she could lose herself in reverie at a moment's notice--a reverie as complete as though she was subtracted from life's realities. [11]
- If he be found among those who join the Scotch army to fight for the Pretender, he shall bear the penalty of his offence. [11]
- Others of the force might wink at it; but his mind appeared to sit severely upright upon the cold platform of Penalty, in beholding breaches of the statutes. [11]
- For the penalty for infringing any rule in the whole list was death. [5]
- When he became famous he paid the penalty of celebrity in frequent interruptions by those "devastators of the day" who sought him in his quiet retreat. [6]
- I desired to face the penalty, for did not my act deny all that I had held fast from my youth up? [11]
- And thus she ever did with sores; but she ever paid the penalty of the violence she did herself. [10]
- He was ready enough to defy the penalty of the law for assaulting a white man, but Felix Marchand was in the dust, and that would do for the moment. [11]
- Outside, indeed, it differed little from its neighbors; in fact; it was intentionally neglected, to mislead the authorities, for witchcraft and the practice of magic arts were under the penalty of death. [10]
- The younger had come off unharmed by the special mercy of the Saints, but it might well have befallen that, as of old in his schooldays, he should have borne the penalty for Herdegen's misdoings. [10]
- I did not choose the objects of penalty. [11]
- Apparently any trifle can offend it, and but one penalty appease it--excommunication. [5]
- Pontiac's wrong-doings had brought it more profit than penalty, more praise than punishment: for, after five years in France in the care of the Little Chemist's widow, Madelinette Lajeunesse had become the greatest singer of her day. [11]
- When they are broken, there's the penalty, and it has to be met. [11]
- He was reckless--not blindly, but wilfully, wildly reckless, caring not at all what fate or penalty might come his way. [11]
- Why should this be exacted of him, this futile penalty? [11]
- Yet here, all at once, she was faced with a vast temptation, to do a deed, the penalty of which was an indelible shame. [11]
- But you, too, are paying the penalty of complexity. [9]
- What is the appointed penalty for an infringement of this law? [5]
- He had overworked and was paying the penalty. [5]
- It had pained and shocked the Cure more than any he had ever heard, but he urged for her no penalty as Portugais had set for himself with the austere approval of the Abbe. [11]
- Misfortune and pain and penalty he could stand, but sacrifice like this and--and whatever else it was, were too much for him. [11]
- You have guessed, and I take the penalty. [11]
- We must do all we can, and, of course, we'll save his life--ah, I'm sure you wouldn't exact the fullest penalty on him! [11]
- Zaleukus forbade to all citizens the pure juice of the grape under penalty of death, and Solon under very severe penalties, unless required as medicine. [10]
- It was within a quarter of an hour of the time when Haman was to pay another's penalty. [11]
- Not less than a hundred men have been murdered in Nevada--perhaps I would be within bounds if I said three hundred--and as far as I can learn, only two persons have suffered the death penalty there. [5]
- That penalty had a great and wholesome effect upon the garroters and wife-beaters; but humane modern London could not endure it; it got its law rescinded. [5]
- This universality of "protection" has existed in our country from the beginning; before the death penalty existed in New England, and during all the generations that have dragged by since it was annulled. [5]
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