The King, over heaps of ruins, made his triumphant entry into the unhappy metropolis, which had so cruelly expiated the weak and perfidious policy of its sovereign.
Shall an insult offered to the Caesarean majesty be expiated by death; and shall there be no penalty for him who degrades to the rank of a creature the almighty, the infinite Creator?
In the succeeding reign, Bacon had not a word to say in defence of this performance, a performance abounding in expressions which no generous enemy would have employed respecting a man who had so dearly expiated his offences.
As the tragedy proceeds, we feel that it is no longer our Joan d'Arc that it concerns--so impossible is it for us to forget, that the village maiden of Dom Remi expiated her pious and visionary patriotism in the flames at Rouen.
This is the case: a cruel fatality and the crime of fratricide have disquieted the Romans, from that time when the blood of the innocent Remus, to be expiated by his descendants, was spilled upon the earth.
Potions [said he] have a great efficacy in confounding right and wrong, but are not able to invert the condition of human nature; I will persecute you with curses; and execrating detestation is not to be expiated by any victim.
Many vagabonds expiated their crimes with their lives after the subsequent trial; but a far greater number were victims to their own brutal acts, when plundering and drinking, surrounded by fire and falling walls.
A tumult of a different description in some particulars, but originating from an execution, happened in May 1725, when the infamous Jonathan Wild expiated his numerous offences at Tyburn.
Two of them, however, were pardoned, but the remainder expiated their offences on the scaffold.
There he sat as before, with the heavy fetters on his limbs, and beside him sat his three companions who had since expiated their offences on the gibbet.
In order to take away all hope from her lover, she pretended a sudden affection for her husband, and in spite of her secret remorse she persisted in this role for two days; but during the night her tears expiated her treachery.
Society will never forgive the heart that catches a glimpse of the joys it is unacquainted with; even a brief hour in that paradise has to be expiated by implacable social damnation and its everlasting flames.
For the blood is expiated by this Blood, and the body cleansed by this Body.
The idea that sins could be expiated by the death of one who {67} had not deserved it, was familiar to the Hebrews.
The idea that sins may be expiated by certain acts of self-mortification is familiar both to Muhammedans[100] and Jews.
Chalmers, murder is punished capitally, whereas a death caused by accident is expiated by a fine.
The sins of Manasseh are expiated even by the better generation under Josiah.
Minor caste offences areexpiated among the Gonds by a fine of liquor, and by drinking it the culprit is purified.
In Sambalpur a woman is finally expelled from caste for a liaison with one of the impure Gandas, Ghasias or Doms, and a man is expelled for taking food from a woman of these castes, but adultery with her may be expiated by a big feast.
Here was the unpardonable crime which could only be expiated by the blood of the victor.
The greatest crime, however, was to be rich, and one which could be expiated by no virtues, however signal.
Whether sadly unwise or fearfully criminal, the kingexpiated his mistakes with his life.
Faults which ought to be expiated by prayers and fastings are atoned for by money, in order that the officials may pay large sums to their respective bishops, and retain a portion of the gain for themselves.
Such an insult among the followers of Islam can only be expiated by blood: the monarch was assassinated by his exasperated officer.
For now two lusters I have seen thee come, Clothed on with darkness and with dreams of blood, And blood that should have expiated thine Is not yet spilt!
The latter is a poem of some length, in which the poet, figuring himself upon a battle-field on the morrow after a combat between Italians and Austrians, "wanders among the wounded in search of expiated sins and of unknown heroism.
It is equally clear how the violation of certain taboo prohibitions becomes a social danger which must be punished or expiated by all the members of society lest it harm them all.
And if this sacrifice of one's own life brings about a reconciliation with god, the father, then the crime which must be expiated can only have been the murder of the father.
The conspiracy of a young courtier, the last of the efforts of the aristocracy to shake off the heavy rule of the Cardinal, was detected, and expiated on the scaffold.
But his gay horsemen dashed in vain against the serried ranks of the royal infantry, and he expiated his fault upon the scaffold.
Eight of them were strung up in one day at the guard-house on the New Market square, as a warning and example to the others, and expiated their robberies by a summary death.
This idea was that the soul would be lost unless sins were expiated, and expiated by self-inflicted torments on the body.
No Sadhu of the Swami-Narayan sect might ever touch a woman, even the accidental touching of any woman other than a mother having to be expiated by a whole-day fast.
Until this offence has been expiated his relationship with the tiger as head of the clan is in abeyance, and the tiger will eat him as he would any other stranger.
Murder must sometimes be expiatedby a pilgrimage to the Ganges, but other criminal offences against the person and property are not taken cognisance of by the caste committee unless the offender is sent to jail.
To that conviction she remained faithful until death, and expiated her six years of deviation by a penitence which lasted for five-and-twenty, and continued ever on the increase.
Heroic or frivolous, Mademoiselle expiated her pranks by an exile of four years in her manor of Saint-Fargeau.
You know my crime, now let me tell you how I have expiated it.
This terrible scene has reopened the wound again and revived my remorse, and yet you know how much I have suffered, and how bitterly I have expiated that momentary madness.
In less than a fortnight after Lord Edward expired in Newgate another Irish rebel, distinguished by his talents, his fidelity, and his position, expiated with his life the crime of "loving his country above his king.
He expiated his patriotism by a long imprisonment.
The Huns have a short way and bloody with British stragglers and despatch-riders and patrols, and I fear that the poor lad expiated his weakness with a cruel death.
They have expiated their other murders by a new murder.
Think or say what you will in Ireland, I shall ever think it a crime hardly to be expiated by his blood.
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