Of these he prosecuted only two (who escaped during the proceedings), and, dismissing the rest, appealed to the impending battle as the great tribunal which would acquit them of the charge and prove their loyalty to the state.
Coaxing the reluctant Mouston from the seat where he still sulked she tied him to the gate, took the armful of flowers from the grave-faced footman, and dismissing the carriage walked slowly up the lime-bordered avenue.
We will call you Margaret," insisted Mrs. Chichester, dismissing the subject once and for all.
Pombal followed up the outrage by flinging all the exiled Jesuits on the Papal States; and then, in 1760, by dismissing the Papal ambassador from Lisbon.
I also judge it advisable to shut up St. Lucia, by dismissing the Jesuit theologians and philosophers.
But there they are," said he, dismissing this subject, like the other, unsatisfied.
Now,' said the old man, dismissing this passionate outburst as suddenly as he had yielded to it, 'is your mind made up to bear this likewise?
Mr Tigg, surveying his adopted brother with an air of profound contemplation after dismissing this piece of pantomime.
In the pamphlet: "The Convention included me in the vote for dismissing foreigners from the Convention, and the Committees imprisoned me as a foreigner.
The President is on trial for a misdemeanor--for dismissing his Secretary without sufficient cause.
It was, for dismissing Mr. Duane because he would not remove the deposits, and appointing Mr. Taney because he would remove them.
This was effected by yielding to him the kingly prerogative of dismissing officers without the formality of a trial, or the consent of the other part of the appointing power.
These, too, have been under the necessity of dismissing many of those employed by them, which necessity brought this matter of Executive interference home to every man's labor and property.
Nay, once he was on the point of dismissing Mr. Gibson because he insisted on a consultation with Dr Nicholls, the great physician of the county.
The Suprema rebuked the tribunal for parting with so choice an investment, but there was no talk of dismissing or punishing the guilty notary.
He was curtly dismissing her, when she mentioned her desire to pay her respects to the young Duchess.
Dismissing her slaves to that part of the house set apart for their entertainment, Julia entered the baths with Nydia, and declining the offers of the attendants, passed by a private door into the garden behind.
Dismissing faith in the confused creeds of the heathen world, he reposed the greatest faith in the power of human wisdom.
I think I have met you before," he remarked with a meaning smile on dismissing me, "when you occupied a different position from your present one?
The Anti-Corn-Lawites were so enraged and mortified that they punished their blundering advocate by dismissing him from his post of President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; and his constituents invited him to resign.
So, dismissing Picard from their thoughts, they leave him to Frank Vanguard and breakfast.
He greeted her arrival with extreme satisfaction, and, before dismissing the slaves, had a place made for her beside him, and food and wine brought for her refreshment.
The heat of the day was passed; and the prince, dismissingfrom his mind all further thoughts of work, commanded his chariot again.
Ribata recognized the change and hastily obeyed his companion's suggestion, dismissing his secretaries, and slipping a familiar arm through that of Belshazzar, as they started away together towards the women's apartments.
Then comes the anecdote--more than a hundred years after date--of Leven's dismissing him with contemptuous lenity.
Dismissing the thought of killing himself, he confirmed himself in his purpose to kill superstition; and whilst maturing his plans for the achievement of this resolve, he determined to pursue his literary enterprises.
For this contumacy alone the authorities would have been justified in dismissing him from the college.
The 'dons' had traced the offence to its actual doers before dismissing them from the college.
They added also to his chagrin by dismissing from the service an army physician in whose appointment he had particularly interested himself.
I am reduced to the painful alternative, either of dismissing a part of the militia now assembling, or of letting them come forward to starve; which it will be extremely difficult for the troops already in the field to avoid.
Congress can put us on a par by dismissing one or the other from the service.
These words, "during good behavior," are intended to prevent the President from dismissing you from office, and not the Legislature from destroying your office.
Dismissing Rachel to her rest, I walked up and down my room, in an agony of misery for what had been done, and suspense, not knowing what might further happen, or how or when that unhappy creature would come up to bed.
After dismissing him for the supposed murder of her brother, she was to take the actual murderer to her arms.
He awakened when the first violet tints of dawn were in the east, and quietly dismissing the weary slaves to their rest, he kept watch alone thereafter.
When the man had disappeared over the crest of the hill, the cowboy muttered a bewildered something, and, touching his horse with the spurs, loped away, as if dismissing a problem too complex for his simple mind.
Perhaps he reasoned that this man who was always doing such strange things was purposely dismissing him.
The chief himself, though ostensibly accepting my statement, has his own suspicions to the same purpose, and before dismissing them he shakes his finger menacingly at the sowars and significantly touches the hilt of his sword.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dismissing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
