Now the German War Staff fully realized the true value of the atrocity as a military instrument.
The Germans have at last compelled all unprejudiced minds to recognize the atrocity as the German notion of scientific efficiency.
But concerning what atrocity is this officer writing?
He lies cold in death, but his principles will live to sweep this unutterable atrocity from the statute-book, which it still fills from cover to cover with blackness.
It would be difficult to point out any law, the spawn of cruelty or tyranny, in ancient or modern times, exceeding in atrocity that by which a free population is thus despoiled of protection on account of color.
For a month or two the talented contributors go smoothly on in their career of untranslatable pleasantry, till some special atrocity calls forth the fatherly admonition of the police.
Ahab had been the first polygamist among the kings of Israel, and therefore the first also to introduce the odious atrocity of eunuchs.
All is uncertain, and the latter passage is of doubtful authenticity; but it is at least possible that the vengeful atrocity committed by Ishmael followed almost immediately after the Chaldaean forces were well out of sight.
The author of the "Essay on the Manners and Spirit of Nations" has been the first to forcibly expose the atrocity of enterprises of this nature.
The blood of the white man in our veins could not but curdle at the contemplation of an atrocity which nothing but the brain of a demon could have engendered.
Besides the gentry and clergy of this department, we have likewise for companions a number of inhabitants of Lisle, arrested under circumstances singularly atrocious, even where atrocity is the characteristic of almost every proceeding.
If the persecution of John was purely the outcome of Edward's 'exasperating legality,' it does as little credit to his political capacity as the atrocity of his vengeance at Berwick and his tyrannical settlement of the conquered country.
Wallace, according to Harry, proceeded straight to Glasgow, fearing that Bek and Percy might be perpetrating a similar atrocity at the eyre of justice they were holding for Clydesdale.
And now, Herr Commandant," I began, "can you suggest where I may best begin my atrocity work tomorrow?
The Times correspondent writes that English sailors are dying, poisoned by the miasma and mosquito bites at the mouth of the Danube, blocked up by the atrocity of Russia.
Since these cases, others of similar atrocity have occurred, and continue to occur so frequently as to suggest the existence of a downright mania for wife-beating.
In the conflict of barbarism with Roman Christianity, barbarism has introduced into Christianity all its ferocity with none of its generosity and magnanimity; its energy shows itself in atrocity of cruelty, and even of sensuality.
The two queens Fredegonde and Brunehaut rise conspicuous above other figures for their fierce and undaunted ambition, for the fascination they exercised over the minds of multitudes, and for the number and atrocity of their crimes.
Such is his scheme of vicarious assassination; in the atrocity of conception unequalled, almost incredible.
Such unheard of atrocity could not help kindling within their breasts indignation of the deepest kind.
Having returned to his original design--the scheme of atrocity so coolly and jestingly declared, Uraga takes steps towards its execution.
The police are confounded by the seeming absence of motive--not for the murder itself--but for the atrocity of the murder.
The myrmidons of G---- were able at once to comprehend how and why such an atrocity might have been committed.
This event occurred about two years after the atrocity in the Rue Morgue.
Is it wonderful that the one knownatrocity should influence the popular judgment in regard to the other unknown?
There seems, however, only one plausible way of accounting for them--and yet it is dreadful to believe in such atrocity as my suggestion would imply.
The injuries on which they are founded are not denied, nor are the atrocity and perfidy under which those injuries were perpetrated attempted to be extenuated.
The surprise of the people at seeing the said bodies was great, because of the atrocity of the deed, which truly made them shudder, seeing that two old septuagenarians and a young girl of 17 years had so wretchedly perished.
He attempts, indeed, to deny the justice of the said decree, not merely because of the absence of the quality of special atrocity (as required by the decree of Paul V.
The crime against the person added to its atrocity a greater crime against the soul, dooming it to pursue its earthly career in sadness and gloom.
Not a century elapsed, and a similaratrocity is enacted in the Senate Chamber of the United States.
But there is one certain topic for an accuser by which he exaggerates the atrocityof an action, and there is another by which he says that it is not necessary to pity the miserable.
What atrocity did Tarquinius ever commit equal to the innumerable acts of the sort which Antonius has done and is still doing?
Who is there who can possibly deplore such circumstances as theiratrocity deserves?
And yet these imps of atrocity pretend to be Christians.
The negroes were not foolish enough to look for much good in such a moral atrocity as that.
There, whenever a crime of unusual atrocity is committed, it is brought out afresh, with all its disgusting incidents copied from the life, for the amusement of those who will one day become its imitators.
The first is one of the most extraordinary upon record, and for atrocity and absurdity is unsurpassed in the annals of any nation.
They had of course to give over the pursuit; and returned home, to provide more effectually against the perpetration of similar acts of atrocity and darkness.
The party then sent into Greenbrier consisted of twenty-two [211] warriors, and committed their first act of atrocity near the house of Lawrence Drinnan, a few miles above the Little Levels.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atrocity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
