So vindictively and cruelly did the Governor punish Bacon's followers that in 1677 the Crown sent three Commissioners, Sir John Berry, Colonel Francis Moryson, and Colonel Herbert Jeffreys to look into the grievances of either side.
It was not as though the colony complained of grievances which could be enquired into and put right; it simply adopted towards England now openly and now by equivocation an attitude of 'hands off.
The worst of all her grievances was, that she seemed completely cut off from his delightful society.
It was one of Jenny's standinggrievances against Tom, that he would call her by her name.
The South," said a pungent writer, "has endured a great many wrongs; but the most intolerable of all the grievances ever thrust upon her was the Census Report of 1860!
Their individual grievances are nothing to the public; but this is a grave issue between the Military Power and the rights of the Press and the People.
I should set forth simply, and without periphrasis, our grievances and our resolution to have justice.
These grievances of the common people were at that time heightened by other causes.
Their demands were, that the mass should be restored, half of the abbey lands resumed, the law of the six articles executed, holy water and holy bread respected, and all other particular grievances redressed.
The conscientious mother is ever ready to console, advise and sympathize in all grievances and perplexities which may confront her offspring.
In our schools, too, Negroes have learned that it is theirs to petition respectfully for the enjoyment of their rights, and the redress of grievances so often unjustly imposed upon them.
I learned from Loewen one evening that in the event of the strike not being settled soon, there was a chance of a sympathetic strike of all trades, and that even the musicians might join in it, for they had "grievances also.
The address of its members to their constituents--a temperate and lucid exposition of their grievances and sentiments.
The silent enumeration of these grievancesdecided him.
And feeling himself and his grievances of even more consequence than usual, Master Geoff stalked off.
In a pamphlet of that date there is a dialogue between a tapster and a cook, which sets forth the grievances of both these worthies.
In 1833 an eccentric person, calling himself Sir William Courtney, appeared at Canterbury and attracted much attention by his half-crazed appearance and his frequent harangues on the grievances of the poor.
It is evident, from the records of the first seven years of this reign, that foremost among all the disorders and grievances of the time, stood the extortions of the Jews.
Their own personal grievances had precedence in their minds over all the pressing exigencies of the state.
Fathom, to whom all his grievances were disclosed, lamented his hard hap with all the demonstrations of sympathy which he could expect to find in such a zealous adherent.
The upshot of the meeting was that the Opposition put its grievances before the nation under the form of a report.
However, these committees increased rapidly in number as the grievances of the colonists increased, and they gradually created a feeling of unity in the colonies as a result of a better understanding of common problems.
In 1816, thirty-five western counties of Virginia held a convention at Staunton and demanded that the General Assembly be informed of theirgrievances and be asked to adjust same.
In his name, I pledge myself to full and strict inquiry into all the grievances Robin of Redesdale hath set forth, with a view to speedy and complete redress.
Speak out then, you, their leaders; and, putting aside all that relates to me as the one man, say what are the grievancesof which the many would complain.
The good-natured young man was quite content for the present to sink and even to forget his own grievance in presence of the grievances of his new acquaintance.
He was filled with it personally when he had time to think about it, but the grievances of somebody else were always coming across his path, and drawing away his attention from his own affairs.
Could anything be clearer than the Uitlander's statement of the grievances and oppressions under which they were suffering?
There--it was plain enough that the reasons for wanting some changes made were abundant and reasonable, if this statement of the existing grievances was correct.
Received order from Privy Council committee on grievances regarding the Rodney petition.
We are told, for instance, in one of the popular London magazines for January, 1913, in an article upon the financial grievances of the British navy that were it not for Germany there would be to-day another Spithead.
One of the chief grievances of the Irishman in the middle ages was that the man who robbed him was such a boor.
But it is just as true that each of the other articles was addressed to the grievances of that race and designed to remedy them as the Fifteenth.
The discontented barons took arms and laid their grievances before the king.
The resolution which prevailed was shown by the estates agreeing to make no grant until grievances had been redressed, and by the choice of Sir Peter de la Mare as spokesman of the commons before the king.
A commission of twenty-four was appointed who were to redress the grievances of the nation, and to draw up a new scheme of government.
To the old sources of discontent were added grievances proceeding from enterprises of so costly a nature that they at last brought about a crisis.
Edward redoubled his preparations for war, and issued a long manifesto to his subjects in which he set forth in violent language his grievances against Philip.
The overlord's grievances could not be denied, and it was urged that the formal surrender of part of Gascony might be made by way of recognising them.
More essential points were the re-enactment of the Charters and the redress of some of the grievances against which the Provisions of 1258 were directed.
In 1320 Edward performed in person his long-delayed homage at Amiens, though his grievances against his brother-in-law still remained unredressed.
The sheriffs were changed and were strictly controlled, and four knights from each shire assembled in October to present to the king the grievances of the people against the out-going sheriffs.
A band of the exiles of 1322 gathered round her and her paramour, and sought to bring about their restoration as champions of the loudly expressed grievances of the queen, and the rights of her young son.
Several grievances exist, which will be removed by the proposed amendments.
Sir, we must recognize the existing condition of things, remedy all practical grievances so far as possible, and set our faces towards the true system.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grievances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
