Every effort was made by the inquisitors and their familiars of high and low degree to induce her to recant, but she continued contumacious.
Not a reply could he get from any of the stern familiars who attended him.
Officers and familiars of the Inquisition were also placed on the highways leading to the frontiers, so that any suspected person attempting to escape from the country might be captured.
Antonio fancied that he could see the dark eyes of the familiars flashing under their hoods as they handed the books to each other.
These were the persons who were to take the chief part in the performances of the day; they were followed by their familiars on horseback, who, with many of the principal gentry of the country, formed their body-guard.
In vain she made the attempt to rush into his arms, for the cruel familiars held her back.
Antonio Herezuelo, from the moment he saw his wife dragged off by the familiars of the Inquisition, had been kept in utter ignorance of what had become of her.
Mr. Motley had spoken in one of his histories of "a set of venomous familiars who glided through every chamber and coiled themselves at every fireside.
He set to work, raking up all the scandal of the Papal household, and acting the spy upon all the movements of the familiars of the court.
When all were seated, the king and his familiars distributed food to those invited.
Holiness was so good, and had such a blind faith in the goodness of others, that he had not always chosen his familiars with the critical care which he ought to have displayed.
He well understood that as one of the familiars of the mansion he must pay his respects to Donna Serafina and the Cardinal, and he at once sought admission to the neighbouring room where the Princess was receiving her friends.
Walking in the shadow of every cardinal who is a candidate to the papacy, there are familiars of low degree who stake the ambition of their life on the possibility of that cardinal's election.
Towards his familiars he was mild, and not easily incensed; zealous, and even vehement in returning kindnesses.
We must not allow ourselves to forget that it is a state of mind fostered largely by our National habit of treating children as familiars and equals.
He rarely himself saw anything at the army, trusting to his familiars when ready to trust anybody.
The familiars had, apparently, fled at the sudden attack upon the jail, and no one appeared to bar their exit.
Brave as the lads were, they could not avoid a thrill of horror, at the presence of the familiars of this dreaded body.
The judges were too astonished even to rise from their seats, and the familiars paused in their advance.
The familiars in human form were human beings usually of the sex opposite to that of the witch.
Her statements regarding the change of witches into animals I have examined in the section on Familiars (p.
The Essex witches, tried in 1645, also inherited familiars from their mothers.
On the analogy of these two examples, I suggest that in the accounts of familiars offering themselves to the witch, there was, previous to such appearance, some formula of words or some magical action which are not recorded.
Nor does it look agreeably, That the Dæmons, which were the Familiars of such a Man as the old Apollonius, differ not from those baser Goblins that chuse to Nest in the filthy and loathsom Rags of a beastly Sorceress.
Otherwise I will turn you all out upon the cold mercies of a heartless world and you will have to work for your living.
It is my intention to treat you all as a Virginia gentleman should treat a body of American ladies and gentlemen gathered here from all parts of our beloved Union, and I shall expect the same consideration in return.
Among his familiarswas Colonel North, the English money magnate, who said the same thing.
Being a man of fortune, he was able to live like a gentleman without public preferment, and this he did, except to his familiars aloof and sensitive to the last.
One of his familiars started the joke that when Wake drew the second white bean "he got a peep.
He seriously lacked the sense of humor, and even among hisfamiliars could never take a joke.
To his familiars Mr. Tilden was a dear old bachelor who lived in a fine old mansion in Gramercy Park.
Their priests proper they believed to possess numerousfamiliars who were attached to them after death.
Thus equipped and escorted by his friends and familiars he presently arrived at Harran-city after the fairest fashion; and, when occasion offered itself, he made act of presence before the King and did his obeisance at Darbar.
Anne Cate, another of the witches who was executed at Chelmsford, said she had three familiars like mice and a fourth like a sparrow.
The imps or familiars of witches embody the same idea.
Fox-possession and fox-familiars are common beliefs among the Japanese; women, weak men, and even children suffering from the idea of having been transformed into animals.
Sometimes battles occur between sorcerers who send forth their familiars to encounter one another before they themselves meet in the flesh.
The Kaju wizards make familiars by digging up a corpse and giving it medicine, which restores it to life.
An apparition of this character may be regarded as belonging to the familiars or elementals rather than to the animal-ghosts.
So much had he been courted for his wealth and personality, this Harry Banks, that among his familiars he assumed the privilege of falling into moods without reason or preliminary notice.
Presently, they were telling freely about the fare at Coffee John's, about their familiars and companions in the little Eddy-Street lodging house, about the drifters of the Latin quarter.
From his familiars I learned that nothing pained the old man more than when a civilian population had to be evacuated or was otherwise subjected to hardship due to the war.
His crews might have ever stood in fear of him, but his familiarswould look upon him with the respect that is brought any man who knows that friendship's best promoter is usually a judicious degree of reserve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "familiars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
