When a man of superior mark commits a crime, the people assemble in great numbers, seat themselves opposite the criminal, who is placed in a ditch, partake of a banquet, and take leave of the condemned person as of one who is about to die.
A judge was hung for hearing a case in his own house instead of in the appointed hall of justice; and another for unduly prolonging a trial was condemned to have the front door of his residence walled up.
This king is accredited with having abrogated the law which condemned the children of slaves to the condition of their parents, and with many other reforms calculated to ameliorate the condition of his people.
The Tlatelulca leaders had for the most part perished in the war, but two of them, one being the priest Poyahuitl who had performed the religious rites at the beginning of hostilities, were condemned to death.
Indeed, Keller Bey was in greater danger and condemned to greater isolation owing to my stay.
Their armies of Rouen, of the Loire, and of the South-East are condemnedin advance.
Origen for his merciful view, and says "the Church, not without reason, condemned him for this and other errors.
Origen, for considering that the punishment of the wicked consisted in separation from God, was condemned as heretical by the Council of Carthage, A.
Erik, burning with jealousy, had him condemned on a false pretence, sewed up in a bag, and cast into the lake.
Two of the condemnedlords also called out to the people, beseeching them "never in future to let themselves be deceived by false promises, but one day to avenge this day's terrible treachery and tyranny.
The imprisoned dependents of John, all of whom had shared in his resistance to the king, were nearly all condemned to death and executed, more than a hundred bodies being exposed at once at the place of execution.
This was that the three criminals should suffer the fate which they had declared themselves ready to bear; they were condemned as traitors and sentenced to loss of life and estate.
This pretext was seized upon by Christian with joy and he proceeded to make use of it in a way that every churchman in the land would have condemned with horror.
Either to confess yourselves guilty and accept pardon, or to be tried and condemned according to law.
It may readily be conceived that such a king would be pursued by the daggers of assassins; sixteen hundred men were condemned to death by the royal courts of inquisition as having been implicated in such conspiracies.
The condemned resorted to the province which he was alleged to have plundered, and there, welcomed by all the communities with honorary deputations, and praised and beloved during his lifetime, he spent in literary leisure his remaining days.
Hasdrubal and Carthalo, the leaders of the patriot party, were condemned to death, and an embassy was sent to Rome to throw the responsibility on them.
It was protested against most radically by Kant, as indeed it had been condemned by many before him.
But many shall seek and few shall find, and the goats shall be sorted out in droves, condemned to an eternity of torture, none other than the everlasting task of listening to their own prose read aloud.
The author of His Natural Life starting out to capture sympathy, showed the brutal system wreaking itself on an innocent man, of good family, condemned for another's guilt.
Which libel had been condemned by the legislature.
The solid piece of wood on which condemned persons lay their necks when they are beheaded.
It seemed to him that everybody else took their own way without waiting; and why should it be so certain that he alone, whose "way" implied harm to no one, should be the only man condemned to wait?
Though Wodehouse was not clever, he had the instinct of a baited animal driven to bay; and resistance and denial came natural to a man who had been accused and condemned all his life.
These demands were rejected by the bishops, while the royal court in May 1559 summoned the preachers to its bar and on their refusal to appear condemned them to banishment as rebels.
Taylor, who as a man of mark had been one of the first victims chosen for execution, was arrested in London, and condemned to suffer in his own parish.
A month later Surrey was condemned and sent to the block, and his father was only saved by the sudden death of Henry the Eighth in January, 1547.
As a heretic he was now condemned to suffer at the stake.
In its earlier session it had formallycondemned the very doctrine on which Protestantism was based; and to join it now would simply be to undo all that Luther had done.
Pherecrates seems to have introduced into his comedy, which was similar in title, miners as slaves or as personscondemned to serve in the mines.
This method of making tanks is not condemned by us, as is the construction of those tanks without a vent; the latter, which have no opening into the air through which the vapour may discharge freely, are indeed to be condemned.
The Scythians condemned the use of gold and silver so that they might not become avaricious.
Diphilos was condemned to death and his fortune confiscated for robbing pillars.
I condemned myself for the feelings I had been indulging.
Though reason condemned his conduct, and mourned over his infatuation, the holiness of his purpose shone around him and sanctified him from ridicule and contempt.
I proffered kindness, forgiveness, and every comfort the law would permit a condemned criminal to enjoy.
I believe it is one of the savage forty-nine, who were condemned by the judges of the infernal regions to fill bottomless vessels with water, through the unending days of eternity.
Sentence was not passed upon condemned persons until they appeared, dressed up in a San Benito, at the place of punishment.
There is a legendary Tasso, the victim of malevolent persecution by pedants, the mysterious lover condemned to misery in prison by a tyrannous duke.
If sufficiently versed in the infernal heraldry of the Holy Office, a condemned man might read his doom before he reached the platform of the auto.
For this offense the assassin was condemned to death; and would apparently have been executed, but for Marino's generosity.
Maria sopra Minerva, it was as a culprit condemned to death by the Inquisition.
Condemned for the most part in their absence, these homicides entered a recognized and not dishonorable class.
Believing firmly in astrology, he judged that his own horoscope condemned him to ill-success.
Whilst I, condemned to thinnest fare, Like those I flattered, feed on air.
They dragged poor Trusty to the tree: He met his master, and averred That he had been condemned unheard.
I remembered the condemned cell and the mattress upon which I lay, but all after was in a state of confusion.
When I recovered from my fit, I found myself in the gaoler's parlour, and as soon as I was able to walk, I was locked up in a condemned cell.
From my soul I would pity one condemned to such a fate.
He had made her feel that he condemned her course towards Miss Burton that evening, and he had meant to do so.
The crime doctor had once seen the inside of a condemned cell; he could see it still.
Let them try a fortnight in the condemned cell, for one they never did commit, and see how they took to that!
Two munfs' 'ard, that I was never ordered, on top of one in thecondemned cell for what I never done!
Then a sash went up too slowly, limbs crossed the sill and felt the floor with excessive caution, and for a little lifetime Alfred Croucher suffered more exquisitely than toward the end in the condemned cell.
But was such utterly indirect evidence in the least likely to upset a decision already taken, if not already communicated to the man in the condemned cell?
In place of the condemned door, there is one leading into the second bay, the Puerta de los Ramos or de las Palmas, in feeling very similar to the main doors of the west.
He condemned sacrifices, except of fruits and flowers, and was known as the god of peace; for, when addressed on the subject of war, he is reported to have stopped his ears with his fingers.
Quetzalcoatl, the founder of the Aztecs, condemned all sacrifice but that of fruits and flowers.
Some whose whole life is one subtle studied selfishness get the name of self-sacrifice, and other silent heroic souls are condemnedfor want of humanity.
And in the midst of the winter, when his life runs lowest and he is reminded of the empty chairs of his beloved, it is well he should be condemned to this fashion of the smiling face.
I will try to save individuals rather than to condemn them, even though their evil deeds must becondemned and offenders punished.
Many a teacher has condemned pupils for doing what to them was perfectly normal.
She, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold, Patiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice.
It was greeted by packed houses and condemned by the press for my "audacity.
The critics condemned it harshly; some before they saw it and more cruelly after.
Even the daily papers praised the play, but condemned my daring to rob them of their little funny man.
Being condemned by my profession to study beings whose moral balance is unstable, I am in a position to assert that the Roman Church has a complete understanding of human nature.
And Juvenal and Tacitus, who were gentlemen, had good reason to detest those anarchists, who condemned Roman civilization with the fanatical fury of a Trotsky.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "condemned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: condemn; damned; doomed; lost
