In another, she had an altar, whereon they immolated all those whom shipwreck had thrown on their inhospitable shores.
They frequently placed on his back the statue of Minerva, and offered to him the tongues of the victims whom they immolated to the goddess.
Shortly before the meeting of the Assembly, a number of young pigs were immolated and a few drops of their blood were sprinkled on the seats of the Prytanes; this sacrifice was in honour of Ceres.
Then their sacrifices began; the people of Ilocab were immolated before the god, and that was the penalty of their crime, which was inflicted by the order of Cotuha.
People of distinction who laboured under the more fatal diseases, and those who engaged in battles and other dangerous undertakings, either immolated human beings, or vowed that they would immolate themselves.
To atone for past shortcomings, two hundred children of the best families in Carthage were sacrificed, and further, to obtain the god's favour, three hundred adult citizens immolated themselves.
For centuries they have immolated thousands upon the scaffold, and justified their acts by appealing to an all-loving Deity.
The same day these four victims wereimmolated upon the fatal guillotine.
He was the father of the French dramatist, Alexander Dumas, who has immolated as many victims in his dramas, as his father destroyed in the enemies of his country.
No virgin could be immolated by the Romans; and Octavia was reduced to infamy ere she could be lawfully sacrificed to the vengeance of Nero.
Underneath this stone was a trench, in which the person whose offence called for expiation received upon his body and his face the blood of the immolated animal.
He merely exhorts them not to eat viandsimmolated to the gods, before those brothers who might be scandalized at it.
It was in this dreary solitude that the Jews immolated their children to their god, whom they then called Moloch; for we have observed, that they always bestowed a foreign name on their god.
Krimhilt brings up a wild hawk; Brunhilt, when she throws herself upon the funeral pyre, that she may not survive Sigurd, has two dogs and two hawks immolated along with her.
On these occasions the beast was immolated while standing, and the blood which poured in streams from the victim was looked upon as a means of cleansing and of life-giving.
The Phoenicians and Carthaginians immolated their children to their gods.
He thought he could already foresee that he was to be deliberately immolated to avarice; yet, so thoroughly was he the slave of Louisa's beauty and his own passion, that no worthlessness on her part could have set him free.
For Henry Lindsey was one of the many living sacrifices hourly immolated on the altars of pride, and how many a holocaust has been offered up upon those altars!
This victim, Purusha, born in the beginning, they immolated on the sacrificial grass.
The dead man was buried apparently in full attire, with his bow in his hand, and probably at one time his wife was immolated to accompany him.
Another story runs thus: In Sparta the maiden Helena was about to be immolated on the altar of the gods, when an eagle carried off the knife of the priest and laid it upon the neck of a heifer, which was sacrificed in her stead.
Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter, Iphigeneia, before going to Troy, and Polyxena, daughter of Priam, was immolatedon the tomb of Achilles to his manes.
The son bought a substitute, and when he was about to be immolated he was marvellously rescued.
The Mussulmans, irritated by their defeat, immolated to their vengeance every Christian that fell in their way.
All Christians were about to be immolated to the revenge of the Mussulmans, and already were they prepared for death, when a young man, whose name history has not preserved, presented himself in the midst of them.
They fancied that millions of Crusaders had arrived from the West; they forgot both their oaths and their threats, and only remembered the fate of the Mussulmans immolated after the conquest of Jerusalem.
Others were conveyed to Mecca, where their blood was shed with that of the victims immolated at the ceremony of the great Bayram.
His soldiers who fell into the hands of the Mexicans, were immolated with horrid barbarity on the altars of the god of war.
The island of Sacrifices was so called, from the first discoverers observing the numerous remains of the victims immolated by the Mexican priests.
And the priests immolated them, and sprinkled their blood before the altar for an expiation of all Israel: for the king had commanded that the holocaust and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to the Lord.
And they immolated the phase on the fourteenth day of the second month.
At Bali all the women of the harem are immolated upon the grave of the defunct sultan.
In Dahomey, when a king dies, a hundred of his soldiers are immolated on his tomb as a body guard.
One morning the cook brought himself into special notice by giving us a fry of the self-immolated creatures.
Though it is a nunnery, and has its body of completely isolated, self-immolated nuns, still there is not the dead and forgotten aspect about it which so characterized the old monastery we had just left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "immolated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
