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Example sentences for "hundred lashes"

  • Moreover, the condition to which she has reduced me does not suffice her: but every day she strips me and gives me a hundred lashes with a whip, so that the blood runs down me and my shoulders are torn.

  • And he sentenced him to receive a hundred lashes.

  • Proselytism from Christianity was punishable by death and confiscation, and any insults offered to God, the Virgin, or the saints, were visited with a fine of ten maravedís or a hundred lashes.

  • There could be no clearer case of a foul conspiracy to ruin an innocent man, but he was sentenced to reprimand and exile and was threatened with a hundred lashes if he dared to speak of his treatment.

  • This was done in the most superficial way, the consulta de fe when reassembled voted to acquit him, with a warning that if he persisted in his wild talk he should have a hundred lashes, whether insane or not.

  • In his audiences he replied unintelligibly to the questions asked and, when the case came before the consulta de fe, it summoned him and asked whether he would take a hundred lashes or confinement in a hospital.

  • She was tortured without extracting further confessions and then was sentenced to a hundred lashes, three years' service in a hospital and perpetual exile from Puebla.

  • He would not have such work--such snivelling; and unless she ceased that minute, he would take her to the yard and give her a hundred lashes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    conspicuous place; hundred and fifty feet; hundred and fifty miles; hundred and twenty thousand; hundred and twenty years; hundred different; hundred dinars; hundred dirhems; hundred eyes; hundred francs; hundred knights; hundred lines; hundred louis; hundred million; hundred millions; hundred paces; hundred pistoles; hundred sequins; hundred sons; hundred sous; hundred talents; hundred things; hundred weight; hundred yards; little band; manifests itself