A century of misery to the professors of religions had passed, in which the persecutions of Papists and Puritans, hanging, transporting, murdering by frightful imprisonments all those who dared to dissent from the church of England.
The Bible in Spain; or The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula.
The following list of imprisonments of children attending the schools of the Bristol Ragged School Union shows considerable progress in the right direction: |1847.
They tried to set limits to the arbitrary imprisonments that had been hitherto the order of the day, by definite reference to the law of the land and the verdict of sworn men.
All men could see as they looked upon his goodly form, not then marred by cruel imprisonments and sufferings, that he was a man among ten thousand.
He, a Quaker preacher and master mariner, having been himself a great traveller and having endured repeated imprisonments in distant countries, could appreciate the courage and success of her unprecedented journey.
William Dewsbury had earned the esteem of his keepers during his successive imprisonments which lasted altogether for nearly nineteen years.
Richard Carlile had not long been liberated from successive imprisonments of more than nine years duration in all.
In the aforesaid examination, he shall take particular care to follow the established practice, so that there may be suitable method and system, in order to avoid long imprisonments and delays in the cases.
We all thought that the days of arbitraryimprisonments were gone by.
Fines and imprisonments began in earnest and were continued, more or less frequently, for many years.
Paul's hunger and thirst, and stripes and shipwrecks, and perils and imprisonments were not the vain froth of a mortal mind.
Beyond his wanderings he saw a destination; above his imprisonments he saw a freedom; after his shipwrecks he saw a haven; and the destination and freedom and haven were all expressed in the words "at home.
The two imprisonments in less than ten days had made terrible drafts on my strength, and the coldness of the Holloway cell had brought on a painful neuralgia.
This statement, that the number of imprisonments had decreased since the adoption of the Cat and Mouse Act, was of course, incorrect, or at best misleading.
The fact was that the number of imprisonments decreased because, where formerly the militants went willingly to prison for their acts, they now escaped prison wherever possible.
The present system of inflicting short imprisonments at first, and reserving long imprisonments and transportation for criminals who have plied their trade of pillage for two or three years, should be abolished.
So far as long imprisonments are concerned, the association holds that the length of the imprisonment must depend not only on the material and moral gravity of the offence, but on the results obtained by treatment in prison.
But the short-term imprisonments reveal quite as clearly the inadequacy of the system.
So far as short imprisonments are concerned, the association considers that the substitution of measures of equivalent efficacity is possible and desirable.
That we have very scanty notice of St. Paul's doings between the two imprisonments does not render the existence of such an interval at all doubtful.
Oh, the blows, punchings, beatings, and imprisonments that we underwent for not putting off our hats to men!
This iron constitution carried him through the longimprisonments which thinned the ranks of his co-laborers.
There were great imprisonments in this and the former years, while I was prisoner at Lancaster and Scarborough.
The Bible in Spain; or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula.
Surely a plan of this description would be infinitely better than continued imprisonments for miserable offences, and much less expensive, too!
Idleness, hooliganism and repeated imprisonments for petty crime, until something more serious happens, and then longer sentences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imprisonments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
