All the rebellion that she had sometimes felt at the anomalous attitude exacted of her sex in regard to such matters was gone.
The leader who invited them to this expression of good feeling exacted the full tale of nine cheers for each person he named, and before he reached the last the 'rahs came in gasps from their dry throats.
It was an insult for which reparation, if not offered by one state, might be rightfully exacted by the other; and Mr. M’Neill was not a man to sit down tamely under such an outrage as this.
He was coldly received in the Persian camp; but he demanded and obtained admittance to the Shah, and having exacted the customary formalities of reception, presented his credentials recently received from the Queen.
The story of the vengeance which Odysseus had exacted was so incredible that it must have been the act of a god, not a man.
In the name of the perfect justice I have exacted for my daughter, in the name of Ruin and Vengeance, to whom I have sacrificed him, my hopes cannot tread the halls of fear so long as Aegisthus is true to me.
As a teacher, he was earnest and efficient, eloquent and inspiring, but he expected and exacted rather too much work from the average student.
But he did not obey with the readiness exacted on board ship.
She and Mr. Brandon had already exacted a promise from me that once a-week at least, so long as I remained in London, I would write to each of them to give news of Roger's welfare.
A tariff of tolls was also issued, and pontage was exacted from all vessels for the passage of which the drawbridge was raised.
On both days the men and women alternately, with great merriment, intercepted the public roads with ropes and pulled passengers to them, from whom they exacted money to be laid out for pious uses.
A tax was exacted from these foreigners, and in 1309 the Friscobaldi were appointed by the King to receive the 'new custom,' and two years later he ordered their arrest for failing to render an account of the money received under that head.
The king was, to begin with, the chief entrepreneur.
All these factors we have noted must have contributed to this development, and various writers have laid most stress upon one or other of them.
Of the loss of her baby she said nothing, but before Mark left the room she exacted a promise that he would come to see her during the period of convalescence.
His joy had expanded so quickly, that it exacted a larger habitation.
Unused to such toil as was exacted of them under the lash of worse than Egyptian task-masters, the Indians wasted away by millions in the mines of Mexico and Peru, and upon the sugar plantations of the West Indies.
Attila defeated the armies of the Eastern emperor, and exactedtribute from the court of Constantinople.
But the oath of allegiance to himself exacted by William of all holders of fiefs, just reversed this, and made it the first duty of the sub-vassal, even in the case of a war between his lord and the king, to follow and obey the king.
The corn for this enormous distribution was derived in large part from a grain tribute exacted of the African and other corn-producing provinces.
With the object of preserving the books, a solemn oath was also exacted from all graduates on admission to their degree, that they would use them well and carefully.
It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity.
Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening on the very morning of the wedding.
Part of his small salary went to the family of a brother; part disappeared each year in the buying of books--at once his need and his passion; there were the expenses of living; and Miss Anna always exacted appropriations.
Open disrespect marked his speech and manner with her always; and sooner or later she exacted full punishment.
Gigantic as they were, they could be met from the purchase money of Louisiana, the taxation and voluntary gifts of the French dominions, the subsidies of the Italian and Ligurian Republics, and a contribution which he now exacted from Spain.
After Brumaire he suppressed the oath previously exacted from the clergy, and replaced it by a promise of fidelity to the constitution.
He even exacted a promise to the same effect from Count Wratislaw, who at this juncture arrived at the camp to attend him during the whole campaign.
These self-contained people made one feel such a brute, and exacted so heavy a penitence for a slight offence!
A glass of water, the assurance that Seymour would do well, if not too much agitated, and a promise exacted from her to say but little, was followed by an interview which had a reviving effect upon both.
Expenditures which the poor can ill- afford are remorselessly exacted for the maintenance of ancestral worship so that the living are often impoverished for the sake of the dead.
The "conversion" or psychic convulsion which is sometimes regarded as an essential preliminary of any vivid awakening of the spiritual consciousness, is really a tributeexacted by our wrong educational methods.
As a result the retribution exacted was terrible; the scenes of violence which followed being upon a scale which went far to cause even the excesses committed by the rebels themselves to pale into insignificance.
He also exacted a tribute of "nose money," which if not paid entailed the forfeit of the feature it was called after.
His warrior-soul was elevated by the thought that a single, omnipotent, never-erring Power guided the universe and the lives of men and exacted implicit obedience from the whole creation.
But he now explained gravely and resolutely that the obedience he exacted from them he intended to practise rigidly himself.
Through all the revolutions of time the great luminary of heaven hath exacted from the generations of men the tribute of devotion.
A heavy penalty should be exacted from any corporation which fails to respect an order of the commission.
In return the most rigid performance of duty should be exacted from them.
Every consideration should be shown him, and in return the highest standard of usefulness should be exacted from him.
Arthur Price believed honestly that more was exacted from him than from other chief mates; and early in that passage he concluded that the Old Man was severer than ever.
But these, in his final effect, were subordinate to 'a certain breadth and majesty of brow, a cast of countenance at once benign and austere, as though the art he practiced so supremely both exacted much and conferred much.
Only the name of friendship exacted these visits from him; Regnault, dying where he had worked, was secure against desertion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exacted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
