My intention is not to inflict fresh wounds, but to heal old ones.
There is little or no diminution in the frequency of outrages upon persons and property, or abatement in the determination to inflict summary and extra-judicial punishment upon the offenders.
It does not inflict civil pains or corporal punishments.
All scandals are punishable, as well as any, and to inflictpenalties on some, and not on others as bad or worse, is inexcusable partiality.
Nevertheless, if the Almighty, to punish us for our own sins and for those of our forefathers, should be pleased to inflict upon us some day that horrible malady, we confess we should be greatly embarrassed.
He caught me by the arm and asked what punishment he should inflict upon me for being so careless.
In this, however, I was disappointed; and I at length became weary of trying to do right, for they would inflict severe punishments for the most trifling accident.
Sometimes we would forget, and take a step or two in the usual way; and then it did seem as though they rejoiced in the opportunity to inflict punishment.
It is frequently said, "How can we suppose that God would inflict eternal punishment as a penalty for a few short years of sin?
It is contrary to His benevolent mind and His beneficent nature to inflict pain on any of His creatures.
Mademoiselle," said he, "pardon me if I inflicton you a serious conversation, for I wish to express all that is in my heart.
Jacob in German, not wishing to inflict the French language on his interlocutor, and desiring also to escape torture himself from the execrable pronunciation of the compatriot of Goethe.
George, I do not think it is very good taste of you toinflict your grievances upon these gentlemen, who have just come to make an afternoon call.
I had no right to inflict upon you a recital of my private grievances against the inhabitants of this wretched town.
But please don't inflict these cheerful theories on my cousin.
I intended to inflict it upon myself, but I could not; and besides, it is not so efficacious as to suffer the humiliation of receiving it from the hands of another.
The vile and horrid mutilations which the tribesmen inflict on all bodies that fall into their hands, and the insults to which they expose them, add, to unphilosophic minds, another terror to death.
Incidentally they would deal with the Hadda Mullah's village of Jarobi, and inflict such punishment on the tribesmen as might be necessary to ensure their submission.
Those who know the range and power of the Martini-Henry rifle will appreciate the skill and marksmanship which can inflict loss even at so great a range.
Daring riflemen, individually superior to the soldiers, and able to support the greatest fatigues, can always inflict loss, although they cannot bar their path.
Baron and Feme," B), it was stated that a husband might inflict moderate corporal punishment on his wife in order to keep her "within the bounds of duty.
At common law the master of a ship is entitled to inflict reasonable chastisement on a seaman for gross breach of duty.
A master has a right to inflict moderate chastisement upon his apprentice for neglect or other misbehaviour, provided that he does so himself, and that the apprentice is under age (Archbold, Cr.
I receive, with entire submission, the stroke thou hast been pleased to inflict upon me.
This is the punishment I inflict on those to whom I have given my heart, when they falsify their promise.
But to inflict this enfantillage upon the unmarried reader would be an act of wanton cruelty.
She perceived that she had been treacherously kidnapped by those who detested her conduct, but had no right to inflict the punishment.
If your work is denounced and to be released at once from your sufferings by one blow from the paw of a tiger, than to be worried piecemeal by creatures who have all the will, but not the power, to inflict the coup de grace?
But Lord Aveleyn had come on board to pay a debt of gratitude, not to inflict mortification.
There the holy man almost verges on blasphemy until he is told that the Babylonian king should come and inflict punishment upon the unbelieving scoffers.
This is the true explanation of the fact that, though there are signs of terror in wild animals, we are nevertheless afraid of them, and they inflict harm upon us.
I 'm not going to inflict you with my own opinions on this theme.
My dear Tom,--I had thought to have despatched this prosy epistle without being obliged to inflict you with any personal details of the Dodd family.
They knew that rapine, murder, and all the worst evils which man caninflict on his brethren were pent within it, and would soon descend.
The death of Requesens had offered the first opening through which the watchful Prince could hope to inflict a wound in the vital part of Spanish authority in the Netherlands.
She had a softer side, and, in the moment of reconciliation, dreaded to inflict further pain upon one to whom she owed much.
Is it not amusing that you inflict upon it, at once and already, the misfortune of this system, in the fear that it runs the risk of getting there some day without you?
No, dear child; why should I inflictmy troubles upon her?
Just conceive the injury you will inflict upon society generally--nobody will thank you.
Unfortunately it too often happens, Lady Ursula," I said, "that it is necessary to inflict a temporary pain to avert what might become a permanent misery.
They will neverinflict on you but a trifling damage; and if they do battle with you, they shall turn their backs to you: then they shall not be succoured.
If after marriage they commit adultery, then inflictupon them half the penalty enacted for free married women.
Whenever a people is punished (for idolatry) the beings honoured by them as gods, shall also be punished, for so it is written, on all the gods also of Egypt will I inflict judgments.
Thus doth God inflict dire punishment on those who believe not.
Thy wife;on whom he had sworn that he would inflict an hundred blows, because she had absented herself from him when in need of her assistance, or for her words (Job ii.
This, for what your hands have sent before you; and because God will not inflict a wrong upon his servants!
Why should God inflict a chastisement upon you, if ye are grateful, and believe?
Besides the ordinary instruments of mortification which they employed, they had a thousand new inventions to inflict suffering upon themselves.
She would not inflict herself on the one friend she had left.
It made you inflict an undeserved hurt on a man who should have had better treatment at your hands; not only because he loves you, but because he is one of the few men who deserve the best that you or any woman can give.
After that they divided the household duties, and Hazel forgot that she had vowed to make Bill Wagstaff wait on her hand and foot as the only penalty she could inflict for his misdeeds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflict" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
