The excesses of the magistrates and the troops before, during, and after the fighting were often of mediaeval atrocity, and the retaliation of the rebels cannot be justified, though it is amply explained by the character of the provocation.
The Manchester men were probably driven to exaggerate their principles by the excesses of Palmerston.
If anything beyond the mere excesses of the Revolution was required to turn a timid friend into a frantic enemy, it was the Assembly's proclamation of its intention to help all other peoples to follow its example.
These opinions, aggravated as they were by the excesses of the French Revolution, may be taken as fairly representative of Toryism during the whole of the reign of George III.
Some of the worst and most ferocious excesses were committed by the Medici family.
This he was unable to effect without recurring, as we have seen, to incredible excesses of violence, which naturally increased the number of his enemies on all sides.
In all the Neapolitan cities he excited the populace to the fiercest excesses against the nobles of Conradin's party.
Her greatest excesses of self-inflicted pain came like sparks of fire from her intense love of the crucified Redeemer.
The wiser heads among them have to tax their ingenuity to the utmost to prevent the worst excesses of this crazy celebration.
This is in marked contrast to the excesses indulged in by the pagan Mohawks at their hunting-camps, where they generally take a keg or more of Fort Orange liquor to keep them warm.
In the Anecdotes, he speaks again, and more fully, of the excesses committed by the blues under the protection of Justinian.
It is time, however, to proceed to the historical evidence on which our statements of the excesses of the Jacquerie are founded.
But he who had permitted the license and excesses to be carried on, unchecked and unpunished, cannot but be considered largely responsible for the natural consequences of such laxity.
Numbers of lives that might have been saved, by care and proper attention, were lost; and the spirit of discontent and insubordination, which had its origin in the excesses committed in the sack of the fortresses, rapidly increased.
There is a similar harmony or disagreement in the course of the seasons and in the relations of moist and dry, hot and cold, hoar frost and blight; and diseases of all sorts spring from the excesses or disorders of the element of love.
We have seen in our own time to what excesses occurrences of this kind may tempt the belief, even when defended with the armour of science.
Curious particulars of his excesses in this matter will be found in a publication wrongly called The Privy Purse Expenses of Henry the Eighth.
They were not inclined to heresy; but the ecclesiastical system was not the catholic faith; and this system, ruined by prosperity, was fast pressing its excesses to the extreme limit, beyond which it could not be endured.
The horrible excesses committed in this sack procured for it the name of the "Spanish Fury.
The destruction of church property in Perth and St. Andrew's had been followed by similar excesses elsewhere.
Was ever, throughout all history, such another example ofexcesses thus scandalous, thus multiplied?
The spirit of anarchy, which had been so strikingly displayed in the excesses of the Parisian Commune, was shown later in various instances of death and destruction by the use of dynamite bombs, exploded in Paris and elsewhere.
The result of these excesses of cruelty was an implacable hatred of the Spaniard, and a determination to carry on the war unto death.
Prominent examples of these were the massacre of the police in Chicago, already mentioned, the excesses of the Commune in Paris, and the acts of violence of the Russian Nihilists.
He would soon forget the excesseswhich he had beheld during eighteen years at all hours and in all seasons.
It was almost swept away amidst the luxury and excesses of the Renascence, the bubbling of living sap which then gushed from eternal nature, downtrodden and regarded as dead for ages past.
It is thought that he will return without making the visit, although there are so many excesses and disorders that demanded that correction be not postponed, that perhaps we can not have it later by human agencies.
The sexual excesses of the ancients, the Baal and Astarte worship of the Assyrians, the Venus, Bacchus, and Priapus cult of the Romans, were at least most favorable means of spreading venereal diseases.
It is in this way that all excesses in the hour of victory defeat the very ends they were intended to subserve.
From the beginning of the excesses of the French Revolution he was possessed by the persuasion that American democracy, likewise, might at any moment crush the restraints of the Constitution to enter on a career of licence and anarchy.
The excesses of Icelandic poetry were specially seen in the so-called rimur, ballads of heroes, &c.
Such excesses were deplored by Washington, but they were defended on the ground that in effect a civil war, as well as a war for independence, was being waged.
This, they argued, was not only just but a safeguard against the "excesses of democracy.
In fact, the Sons of Liberty carried their operations to such excesses that many mild opponents of the stamp tax were frightened and drew back in astonishment at the forces they had unloosed.
Daudet could supply the demand, but as he was not born a realist, whatever social influences he had been subjected to, he remained free from the faults and excesses of the school.
Those that portray the conflict with the excesses and lusts of the flesh, or Youth plays.
Excesses in eating or playing should be automatically corrected the next day and the next.
Peaceable inhabitants were harried and harassed by the excesses of the troops.
It was the place of durance for that other baron Von der Trenck, Franz, the Colonel of Pandours or Austrian irregular cavalry, whose terribleexcesses disgraced the Seven Years’ War.
Excesses were committed in the town; the case became a subject of heated dispute in the popular assemblies, and more than once occupied the attention of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies.
Moreover, it is absurd to exaggerate the effects of onanism and sexual excesses in themselves, and thus increase the anxiety of a number of unfortunates.
Sexual excesses in the country are more conformable to nature.
No doubt excessesdisturb the ties of marriage and of the family, and often provoke impotence and other disorders of the sexual functions.
The excesses of female inverts exceed those of the male.
It is needless to say that it is not sufficient to combat the excesses of criminal and dangerous individuals, such as sadists, for example, by placing them under supervision and preventing them doing harm.
This is how it happens that a normal woman, systematically seduced by an invert, may become madly in love with her and commit sexual excesses with her for years, becoming herself essentially pathological.
Sexual braggardism has, moreover, grave consequences for the man himself, for it urges him to excesses which far exceed his appetites and especially his natural wants.
Such excesses in woman take on a more pathological character than in man, and go under the name of nymphomania.
In spite of other advantages, he wishes to shine by these excesses among his fellows and even among the grisettes whose minds are full of sexual matters.
Numerous sects, both ancient and modern, have entered on the scene in a hardly less libidinous manner; for example, the sexual excesses of the anabaptists in former times and the sexual ecstasies of certain modern sects in America.
Apart from marriage, we meet with concubinage, infidelity, and sometimes prostitution, but these excessesare never widely spread in small places where every one knows each other.
Lombroso remarks on the brutal excesses of soldiers when excited after battle.
He was attracted rather more by men than by women, but committed excesses with both sexes.
In Chapter VIII we shall prove that not only the anomalies of the hereditary sexual disposition, but artificial excitations and bad habits may also produce all kinds of misconduct and excesses which should be energetically combated.
And these were followed by orgies which left the celebrants, in the last excesses of intoxication, to be gathered up at break of day and carried helpless to bed.
From violent excesses in eating and drinking, he would pass to no less unnatural periods of utter abstinence.
Here we give Mr. Moore full credit for all his abatements in regard to Lord Byron's excesses in his early days.
Neither the Bible nor the Qur'an is responsible for the cruel excessescommitted by Christians or Muhammadans in the name of Religion.
He felt, perhaps, that it was men such as this who had driven the other side to excesses such as these; and he hardly repressed a sneer.
Owing to the position of her chamber, she saw nothing of the excesses to which Paris gave itself up during the remainder of that day, and to which it returned with unabated zest on the following morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
