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Sentences starting with punishment

Punishment thereafter, the Cure would say. [11]

Sentences ending with punishment

Take back what you have said, or we must deliver you up to punishment. [5]
For this time you are excused from any further punishment. [10]
I have sympathised with the just, but I have always felt that I'd like to help the criminal to escape his punishment. [11]
Sir Heinz Schorlin, who stood high in the Emperor's favour, would then be asked to apply to the sovereign to annul it, or at any rate to impose a lighter punishment. [10]
The scorn with which the rebels, after the compromise signed by the highest nobles, had called themselves Geusen, or Beggars, and endangered repose, would have been worthy of the severest punishment. [10]
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]
She groped her way up to the dim garret, the scene of her memorable punishment. [6]
In her primitive way Kitty had intuitively apprehended the main truth, and that was enough to justify her in contributing to Mona Crozier's punishment. [11]
The entire caste was to suffer for the sins of him who had escaped punishment. [10]
Mr. John Morley uses the following words: "The horrors of what is perhaps the most frightful idea that has ever corroded human character,--the idea of eternal punishment. [6]

Short sentences using punishment

This punishment was terrible. [11]
Her punishment has been great. [9]

Sentences containing punishment two or more times

There should be other ways than the gun with which to take a man's life--ways which might give a Norman a chance to sacrifice only one life; to secure punishment where it was due, but also escape from punishment for doing the obvious thing. [11]
She looked at him inquiringly, and he added, "the punishment he deserves and the punishment he does not deserve. [11]

More example sentences with the word punishment in them

The words "murdered your mother" haunted her, and she remembered the law of the ancients which refused to prescribe a punishment for the killing of parents, because they considered such a monstrous deed impossible. [10]
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]
Take care what you say, and consider well what punishment awaits perjurers. [10]
I see what you mean--that my punishment is my powerlessness. [9]
No punishment for you but this lies in my power. [10]
If I am wrong, forgive me--if I am right, your punishment will hardly be lighter than my fate. [10]
As the night wore on they decided on the punishment to be meted out by La Touche to the man who had not "acted on the square. [11]
The streets swarmed with people, waiting impatiently to see the strange spectacle which the punishment of one of the king's wives, who had proved false and faithless, promised to afford. [10]
The guilt for which she was threatened with punishment was by no means small, and even if her earthly judge did not call her to account, she would go to confession to-morrow and honestly perform the penance imposed. [10]
The great sin we both committed has been visited on me alone, but the punishment is a hundred--a thousand times too heavy! [10]
The original conception was that the offender against the law should be punished, and that the punishment should be made to fit the crime, an 'opera bouffe' conception which has been abandoned in reasoning though not in practice. [4]
He had, for want of a more convenient punishment, promptly knocked down Jeff Hyde, the sometime bully of the fort, for appropriating a bundle of furs belonging to a French half-breed, Gaspe Toujours. [11]
The churches know very well, he maintains, that the fear of everlasting punishment more than any or all other motives is the source of their power and the support of their organizations. [6]
It was a very foolish thing for him to try to inflict personal punishment on such a lusty young fellow as Abner Briggs, Junior, one of the "hardest customers" in the way of a rough-and-tumble fight that there were anywhere round. [6]
The legislation against vagabonds, tramps, and sturdy beggars, and their punishment by whipping, branding, etc., are too well known to need comment. [4]
To betray his unseemly conduct to the Emperor or to the confessor would have brought upon him too severe a punishment for an offence which, after all, was the most profound homage. [10]
But if so true and warm a love unites you to young Eysvogel, how does it happen that your joyous courage is so little damped by his father's denial and his own unhappy deed, which at this time could scarcely escape punishment? [10]
Half-breed and Indian troubles came-- The same old story--land and game; And Dubois' Men were the first to feel The bullet-sting and the clip of steel; And last in battle 'gainst thousands sent, With Gatling guns for our punishment. [11]
If, however, he tried to keep a vow of silence in the chair of execution, he paid a heavy price; for Berry had his own methods of punishment. [11]
Convinced that Eva, too, had done nothing worthy of punishment, he went towards them to clasp both in his arms, but ere he could do so the clap of thunder which had frightened Katterle so terribly shook the whole room. [10]
Senator Dilworthy said to Washington that an humble deportment, under punishment, was best, and that there was but one way in which the troubled heart might find perfect repose and peace. [5]
To go back to the world whence he came, with the injury he must do to others, and the punishment also that he must suffer, if he did not tell the truth about Billy! [11]
He went up to the centurion, and said to him in an undertone, "You have given the evil-doer his due, and if you desire that he should undergo a severer punishment than you can inflict, carry the matter--I say once more--before the bishop. [10]
My object was to save the men who, having mutinied and fled from Admiralty control, are subject to capital punishment. [11]
For me, and to save me from punishment and my father from sorrow, he owned a sin that he never committed. [10]
I was going to offer him my parting salutation, but he turned his back upon me, saying: Once more you have escaped punishment, Athenian; but you cannot elude my vengeance. [10]
If you want to murder, you will open the gates at once; but if it is punishment, if you are an executioner, you will give me time to pray. [11]
Warner has tried to hold up our hands like the good fellow he is, but poor Twichell could not say a word, and confessed that he would rather take nearly any punishment than face Livy and me. [5]
March submitted silently to his punishment, and laughed with her before company at his own eccentricity. [8]
We were glad to have seen that land which had an enlightened religion with future eternal rewards and punishment in it, while even Israel's religion contained no promise of a hereafter. [5]
It is sure to exhibit itself in forms more objective than are found in great populations where methods of punishment are various, and even when deadly are often refined. [11]
David could refuse to bear punishment, but such a possibility had never occurred to her or to any one present. [11]
She really deserves to be punished for bearing false witness, and her punishment cannot, at any rate, be so heavy as yours. [10]
He was inclined to attribute the depression through which he had passed, the disappointment he had undergone as a just punishment for an overabundance of ego,--only Hodder used the theological term for the same sin. [9]
He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff, besides, for his irreverent conduct. [5]
He thought and thought, but he could not devise a fitting punishment for this false woman. [10]
Only a little thought is required, it seems to me, to assure us that we cannot be the judges of our own punishment on this earth. [9]
His patience under this punishment is admirable, and there is something pathetic in his restraint from profanity. [4]
He meditates frightful things, and if he cannot be terrified by threats of punishment from the Immortals, he will raise his hand against Mena, and perhaps--" "Against the king," interrupted Ameni gravely. [10]
But which of them would the punishment hurt most sorely: him or herself? [10]
It was to them that they ascribed the punishment which I executed upon them in your name. [10]
The priests told them that death and everlasting punishment would overtake any who violated the oath, and the march was resumed. [5]
After disclosing to them his desire to allow the judges to decide and, should the verdict go against Biberli, release him from punishment by a pardon, both undertook to justify the absence of the accused from the trial. [10]
It cowered at the voice and the punishment for an instant, but came on again. [11]
When news of the tragedy came to Mrs. Grier, she was reading in the papers of Carnac's victory, and in her mind was an agonizing triumph, pride in a stern blow struck for punishment. [11]
He was in the toils, there was no help for him; he must either take this punishment or beg for its remission. [5]
Instead of comforting the terrified souls, or encouraging their faith and bidding them hope for better times, he set before them in burning words the punishment that awaited their wicked despondency. [10]
Any punishment, even the severest, will be pleasing in his sight which you may inflict on those guilty of high-treason, for you wear the purple as his gift and in his name; those who insult you sin also against the god. [10]
Then she recollected the severe punishment she had once suffered, because, when she was still quite little, and without meaning any harm, she had taken her father's water-clock to pieces, and had spoiled it. [10]
A part of the scheme of those who work for the reformation of criminals is to render punishment more certain, and to let its extent depend upon reformation. [4]
Their impulses were the same as of old, but they kept them within bounds by a never-sleeping consciousness that they led, not to joys, but to everlasting punishment. [10]
Today four of the ringleaders have been sentenced to heavy punishment of a public sort--and are become local heroes, by consequence. [5]
The commandant said the punishment would be "heavy;" when asked "how heavy? [5]
It mightn't provide the proper degree of punishment, however. [11]
Tribal punishment is the only proper thing for individual crime. [11]
Death is not the hardest punishment. [10]
Ptolemy had intrusted the execution of this severe punishment to Alexander's former comrade as the most trustworthy and discreet of his subjects, but rejected, with angry curtness, Philippus's attempt to uphold the innocence of his friend Archias. [10]
Under this conception the criminal code was arbitrarily constructed, so much punishment being set down opposite each criminal offense, without the least regard to the actual guilt of the man as an individual sinner. [4]
It was said that this terrible punishment was able to bring the stubbornest ruffians to terms; and that no man had been found with grit enough to keep his emotions to himself beyond the ninth blow; as a rule the man shrieked earlier. [5]
She vaguely felt that there had been justice and punishment. [11]
The steward declared that the good Pentaur was wicked, and stood in his way, and he said that Ameni was going to send him to the quarries at Chennu, but that that was much too small a punishment. [10]
Thus it was that she wrote to Queen Elizabeth, asking that "this arrant foe of France, this churl, conspirator, and reviler of the Sacraments, be rendered unto our hands for well-deserved punishment as warning to all such evil-doers. [11]
You smile; and that is punishment for my vanity; and fairly earned, I grant you. [5]
It was clear that he had looked for death, and now expected punishment and prison. [11]
The legend goes that enquiries--soon silenced--developed the fact that she was a daughter of a great English house, and that that was why her Cape wildnesses brought no punishment and got no notice when reported to the government at home. [5]
Who shall say that a large part of the punishment of Jethro Bass did not come to him in the life upon this earth. [9]
The Dominican friar Tetzel, from Nuremberg, was here with his coffer, and carried written promises which secured certain remission of punishment for all sins, even those committed long ago, or to be committed in the future. [10]
At the great Techu-festival at Dendera intoxication seems to have been as much commanded as at the festivals of Dionysus under the Ptolemies, one of whom (Ptolemy Dionysus) threatened those who remained sober with the punishment of death. [10]
She saw him taking his punishment as surely as though the law of the land had him in its grasp. [11]
These two details, taken in connection with the fact that for his extraordinary offense the only punishment he got from the East India Company's Government was a solemn official "reprimand"--suggest the suspicion that he was a European of consequence. [5]
Not the smallest suspicion of the possibility of her escape troubled his sense of security, when, not finding Sirona in the sleeping-room, he went into the sitting-room to carry out the meditated punishment. [10]
His punishment would still be heavy; but whence had come such a wondrous gift to mitigate it? [9]
For the evil spirits which dwell in every human being, and are emanations from Ahriman, will be destroyed in the punishment inflicted on men after death. [10]
There was a spirit of defiance which refused to accept favours, preferring punishment to the pity or the pardon which stooped to make it easier for her. [11]
Whoever disobeyed the sound of this little whistle, was certain of punishment. [10]
It was come soon, his punishment. [11]
He might have shouted for relief in the hope of attracting the attention of some passer-by, and so found release and brought confusion and perhaps punishment to Gabriel Druse; but that was not possible to him. [11]
From ship to ship the long-boat goes, and the punishment of floggin' is repeated. [11]
Like some huge ship staggered by the sea, it took its punishment with heavy, sullen endurance. [11]
Perhaps the rose she put in her hair was part of the punishment. [4]
If Great Britain shall choose to recognize them as lawful belligerents, and give them shelter from our pursuit and punishment, the laws of nations afford an adequate and proper remedy [and we shall avail ourselves of it. [7]
That's rather a severe punishment, since we're neighbours. [9]
I venture to say that it was an experiment that would have failed in any community in the United States, whether it was presented as a piece of philanthropy or of punishment. [4]
At first he saw nothing reprehensible in this, but in the second year of his marriage his view of that form of punishment suddenly changed. [2]
It must be said that the American people--such of them as were aware of this uprising--took the punishment of their presumption in a sweet and forgiving spirit. [4]
I would seriously recommend to the government of the United States that when a man commits a crime so heinous that the law provides no adequate punishment for it, they make him Consul General to Tangier. [5]
The Aymaras and Quichuas of S. America, likewise have very long hair; and this, as Mr. D. Forbes informs me, is so much valued as a beauty, that cutting it off was the severest punishment which he could inflict on them. [1]
If he deserved punishment, what more would you have? [5]
No excommunication, no punishment, can make my present suffering harder to bear, but if you harm the doctor, I shall curse the hour I invited you to cross my threshold. [10]
As to the punishment of the guilty: on that I insist. [10]
I got the punishment myself, as it was supposed that I had heedlessly failed to insert the wooden pin which kept the gate closed. [5]
Indeed, no; his punishment is trivial compared with theirs. [5]
The object of punishment for violation of statute law is not vengeance, it is not to inflict injury for injury. [4]
It was a punishment for playing too honest, or something; eh, what do you think, Lucy--or something, 'hein? [11]
He made a public table of good and bad conduct; but even with this inducement the worst had to be driven to work by punishment or the fear of it. [4]
Her guilt is proved; but it does not become the injured person, the accuser, to award the punishment. [10]
Inflicting, we are prone to cruelty, as you have seen a schoolmaster begin punishment with tears, grow angry at the shrinking back under his cane, and give way to a sudden lust of torture. [11]
This matter was placed in the hands of a committee to determine where the guilt lay and the degree of it, and also to suggest the punishment. [5]
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]
It is a part of the heavy punishment you have inflicted on yourself that you cannot believe in her purity. [9]

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