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Example sentences for "ignominious death"

  • Bunyan was to endure a cruel imprisonment, with all the fears of an ignominious death.

  • The jury found a verdict of--not guilty; and thus two innocent persons were saved by an enlightened judge from an ignominious death.

  • What an ignominious death to the lofty right, were it to die by such a hand; but it does not die.

  • To die an ignominious death--the death on the gallows!

  • It was this which brought John Meff, alias Merth, of whom we are now to speak, to an ignominious death, after he had once before escaped it in a very extraordinary manner, as in the process of his story shall be related.

  • Yet though these thoughts reconciled this ignominious death to her reason, her apprehensions were, notwithstanding, strong and terrible when it came so near.

  • There was no one to testify my innocence, to prove that I had no connection with the guilty, or to save me from an ignominious death.

  • And the remembrance of those who had preceded him, ennobling an ignominious death, gave Federico courage.

  • After his narrow escape from an ignominious death, Frank Sydney resumed his nocturnal wanderings thro' the city, in disguise, in order to do deeds of charity and benevolence to those who needed his aid.

  • A thought struck the dying wretch; it was perhaps in his power to make some atonement for his crimes--he might save an innocent man from an ignominious death.

  • The weight of circumstantial evidence against him was tremendous and might produce his conviction and condemnation to an ignominious death!

  • I hope they may, sir; I should not wish to see any fellow-creature brought to an ignominious death in the midst of his offences, and in the prime of life.

  • A board of general officers was appointed to inquire into his case, and notwithstanding the solicitations and menaces of Sir Henry Clinton, who anxiously sought to save him, he was condemned to die an ignominious death.

  • The grand tribunal of the nation, the parliament of Paris, found no difficulty in seconding the wishes of the ministry, and the artificial cry of the day, by condemning him to an ignominious death.

  • I now concluded the vengeance of Heaven had overtaken me, and that I must soon finish my career by an ignominious death.

  • The only prodigy which he was incapable of effecting, was that of convincing the Jews, who, far from being touched with his beneficent and marvellous works, caused him to suffer an ignominious death.

  • This beloved son, equal to God his father, is put to an ignominious death by his favourite nation.

  • Delinquent saved from an ignominious Death, by a proper Mode of Communication with the Government.

  • Delinquent saved from an ignominious Death, by a proper Mode of Communication with the Government--Conclusion.

  • The vast wealth he had extorted from others was confiscated to the crown, and he was condemned to suffer an ignominious death[28].


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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