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Example sentences for "handed over"

  • The houses of the regular clergy were broken up; their property was disposed of or handed over in trust to some reliable neighbour, and the priests prepared to go into exile.

  • The Sees of Westminster and London were combined and handed over to Ridley of Rochester, one of Cranmer's ablest and most advanced lieutenants.

  • Olaj Beg has just come hither with the Sultan's command that if the Prince of Moldavia comes here he is to be handed over.

  • And when think you you will require this woman to be handed over?

  • The women and children brought from Bir Om Lawai I handed over to Muslem Wad Kabbashi with directions that he should take them to Hilla Shieria, and thence to their homes at Fafa and Woda.

  • He accepted the offer gladly; so I handed over to him a bright little Fertit boy called Kapsun, whom he agreed to bring up in Europe.

  • Thereupon he handed over to me a 50-centime piece, and then reached the door of his house with my help.

  • I then returned to the Sergeant-major's room, in order to supply him with particulars about myself such as have to be registered in the livret (regimental book) handed over to every French soldier.

  • But to proceed: I went through the same ceremony with all the other clothes which were handed over to me.

  • If he proves obstinate, he is to be handed over to the secular judge.

  • If then he continues contumaciously to deny what has been or may be proved against him, he is to be handed over to the secular arm, in accordance with the canon law, as a pertinacious and incorrigible heretic.

  • The males were cruelly put to death, and their wives and families were handed over to the Greek householders as slaves.

  • He was then to be handed over to the regular police and imprisoned for a time.

  • He bore a package of papers in his hand, and these he handed over to Matt.

  • That glass is worth at least a dollar, and unless it is paid for, somebody will be handed over to the police.

  • From the very beginning, even in the very year when I handed over to you all our father's money--I sent you more.

  • She had in fact hardly let Louie Grieve out of her sight since her boarder was handed over to her.

  • The consequence is that each newcomer finds certain ideas and forms of speech ready for his acceptance, and is handed over, bound hand and foot, to influences that are the least capable of sane direction.

  • Over and over again we can observe how the promptings of disease are taken for the voice of divinity, and men and women who to-day would be handed over to the care of the physician hailed as an incarnation of deity.

  • Our house was mortgaged and mother brought back the five hundred dollars which I handed over to Mr. Scott, who soon obtained for me the coveted ten shares in return.

  • It is twelve years since the Glen was handed over to the trustees and certainly no public park was ever dearer to a people.

  • I handed over to mother, who was the treasurer of the family, the eleven dollars and a quarter and said nothing about the remaining two dollars and a quarter in my pocket--worth more to me then than all the millions I have made since.

  • If the lands are confiscated, so long as the proletarians rule in the great centers, and all political power is handed over to the proletariat, the rest will take care of itself.

  • Stolypin demanded that all the Social Democrats be excluded permanently from the Duma and that sixteen of them be handed over to the government for imprisonment.

  • At that meeting Sulla should be handed over to Jugurtha.

  • The deserters from the Roman army must be handed over.

  • A bolder spirit Mummius, the man who had been made by the deposition of Octavius, asked that the conduct of the assembly should be handed over to him.

  • It might even mean that a more prolific source of revenue would be handed over to the care of the publican.

  • The young monarch, handed over to the conspirators, was to serve as a passive instrument to re-establish the ancient constitution, and legitimate their crime.

  • He handed over to kings the civil liberty of the people, provided that they would aid him in acquiring the liberty of consciences.

  • The constitution, handed over to ridicule and hooted in full assembly, had now become the plaything of the populace.

  • The rent of a house might also take the place of interest upon a loan, and the property be handed over to the creditor as security for a debt.

  • The first will be handed over to the creditors of the State.

  • I propose a premium of five francs to be levied from the public taxpayers, to be handed over to the shipbuilder for each ton of iron he shall employ.

  • To make me pay for houses, seed, and cattle, to be handed over to Greeks and Maltese, when we have so many poor people to provide for at home!

  • None of the Vellalas can refuse the annual subscription, on pain of being placed under the ban of social excommunication, and the Andi will not leave the Vellala's house until the infirm child is handed over to him.

  • At the bride's house, these presents are touched by those assembled there, and the box is handed over to the bride's father.

  • At the end of a year, a portion of the balance of the pay is handed over to him, leaving a small sum to be paid at the end of the contract period.

  • A silver umbrella belonging to the temple is handed over to him, to be used when he comes to the temple again in the evening.


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