If you do tremble in anticipation of heel discipline to be inflicted in gym costume.
Previous to their retreat they wreaked upon Springfield the same vengeance they had inflicted on Connecticut Farms.
Congress adhered to their vindictive policy, merely directing that no other hardships should be inflicted on the captive officers than such confinement as was necessary to carry their resolve into effect.
No, you needn't fret; he deserves all he suffers, for what he has inflicted upon you, my precious one.
Great are the sufferings inflicted on a sensitive ear by listening to one's favourite passages, touching in pathos, or glorious in sublimity, travestied into twaddle by the false taste or the want of practice of the reader.
The best time to set vigorously about such practice would be when you have but just listened with dismay to the injuries inflicted on some favourite poet by the laboured or tasteless reading of an unpractised performer.
All the laws prescribing punishment for slaves fell with slavery, and they were subject afterward only to the penalties which were inflicted upon the free colored population, they then being free.
It declares that there shall be no different punishment inflicted on a colored man in consequence of his color than that which is inflicted on a white man for the same offense.
Now, sir, I say no more strong inducement could ever beheld out to them; no more severe punishment could ever be inflicted upon them as States.
In some communities in the South a custom prevails by which different punishment is inflicted upon the blacks from that meted out to whites for the same offense.
Here is the mildest of all punishments ever inflicted on traitors.
In the sixth division dwell those who died in performing a pious act, and in the seventh division those who died from illness inflictedas an expiation for the sins of Israel.
He would die an unnatural death, such as he had inflicted upon his fellow-man.
To punish the Patriarchs for the affront they had offered her, she was made the mother of Amalek, who inflicted great injury upon Israel.
But Adam explained to them what sickness and pain are, and that God had inflicted them upon him as a punishment for his sin.
Not knowing what injury was fatal, Cain pelted all parts of his body with stones, until one struck him on the neck and inflicted death.
Yet some of the punishment was inflicted upon him on his own account, for it had been Canaan who had drawn the attention of Ham to Noah's revolting condition.
God inflicted the curse upon the serpent without hearing his defense; for the serpent is a villain, and the wicked are good debaters.
The end of Cain overtook him in the seventh generation of men, and it was inflicted upon him by the hand of his great-grandson Lamech.
Nevertheless he inflicted a severe blow, and when a band of two thousand men beset him, he leapt up in the air and over them and vanished from their sight.
Terror seized her at the knowledge, and, trembling, she fell from the camel and inflicted an injury upon herself.
Isaac thought: "Jacob is a righteous man, he will not murmur against God, though it should come to pass that suffering be inflicted upon him in spite of his upright life.
He said to Esau: "I foresee that in future days suffering will be inflicted by thy children upon mine.
The famine in the time of Abraham prevailed only in Canaan, and it had been inflicted upon the land in order to test his faith.
They felt keenly, in many instances, the wrongs inflicted on them, but they had no power of resistance against a disciplined European force.
The soldier who was appointed to guard him, fired upon him, and inflicted a mortal wound, it having been, as was supposed, an act of private revenge.
They inflicted no greater tortures upon the English than they ofteninflicted upon other prisoners of their own complexion.
The Indians were wont to boast of their feats, and of the tortures inflicted upon the captured English; in some instances, the friends of those with whom they were now holding intercourse.
They had in view the avenging of some murders, which a foreigner, an Englishman, had a while before inflicted on their people.
They had joined the British in the war of 1812, and inflicted much injury on the Americans.
The child clung to the sisters, in spite of every hardship and trial inflicted on her to persuade her to go.
He underwent all the pains inflicted on him as an atonement for the sins of his past life.
But would to God it were only innocent suffering that is inflicted on the children of our land.
Take but one instance out of the many that crossed my via dolorosa of the anguish inflicted on the mothers of the poor.
They had now been joined by all the vessels left behind at Rhodes, and it was found that only a few were missing, and that the great storm, terrible as it had been, had inflicted less damage upon the fleet than was at first feared.
He no longer minded her having lied about the jeweller; what pained him was that she had been unconscious of the wound she inflicted in destroying the identity of the jewels.
This abasement wasinflicted on her in the staring gold apartment of the Hotel Nouveau Luxe in which the Rollivers had established themselves on their recent arrival in Paris.
The humiliation her father had inflicted on her was merged with the humiliation to which she had subjected herself in going to the opera, and she had never before hated her life as she hated it then.
To the miseries that had been inflicted upon Belgium, and which he himself had had opportunity to view at first hand, he gave no heed--this scholarly pundit-preacher of the tenets of Prussianism.
But unfortunately this punishment, the most severe that could be inflicted upon him, grieved his sister as much as it did him, so it was used rarely and only in grave cases.
She heard of the active surveillance exercised by the Committee of Public Safety, and of the terrible punishment inflicted upon those who were guilty of no crime save that of being regarded with suspicion.
In a minute the guns of the lugger spoke out again but, although a few ropes were cut away, and some more holes made in the sails, no serious damage was inflicted and, before they were again loaded, the spanker was rehoisted.
They had, however, inflicted enormous loss upon the garrison and defences; and the siege would now be taken up by the army and fleet, and vigorously pushed to a successful termination.
But unlike Williams and Anne Hutchinson, the Quakers came back as often as they were banished; and as often as they returned, their conduct became more outrageous, and, the penalties inflicted more severe.
To fall to mere flogging after having inflicted the death penalty was a fatal anti-climax which marks a turning-point in Massachusetts history--the beginning of the end of Winthrop's Bible Commonwealth.
Those who wrote the Constitution "well knew the dreadful punishments inflicted and the grievous oppressions produced by [the doctrine of] constructive treasons in other countries.
But the Republican condemnations of the severe punishment that the Federalists inflicted upon anybody who criticized the Government, raised fundamental issues and created conditions that forced action on those issues.
He told a straightforward story of brutality inflicted upon him because he could not readily answer the printed questions sent out by Jefferson's Attorney-General.
The sufferings inflicted on endeavors to vindicate the rights of humanity are related with all the frigid insensibility with which a monk would have contemplated the victims of an auto da fe.
For a list of some of the disastrous alterations and demolitions inflicted upon other cathedrals, the reader may be referred to the pages of Mr. Mackenzie Walcot.
But the wounds inflicted in the late war were scarcely staunched; and the time had not arrived to speak of cordiality, or of community of Church interests.
Had she been less beautiful, less queenly, less generous, great and noble, he might have forgiven her that self-inflicted shame more easily.
But he bore the stab she inflictedwithout flinching under its cruel pain, and he robbed her of the gratification she had hoped for.
It had not been through the dead man's body; it had inflicted only a surface wound.
I had myself inflicted the wound with a pistol ball--but the hurt was trifling.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation, as the most terrible mode in which disgrace could be inflicted on me.
I can claim on my side that if I realise what I have suffered, society should realise what it has inflicted on me; and that there should be no bitterness or hate on either side.
It is really ashamed of its own actions, and shuns those whom it has punished, as people shun a creditor whose debt they cannot pay, or one on whom they have inflicted an irreparable, an irremediable wrong.
Mr. Lewis was a very severe master, and inflicted such punishment upon us as he thought proper.
She then flew into a rage and told him I was saucy, and to strike me, and he immediately gave me a severe blow with a stick of wood, which inflicted a deep wound upon my head.
And the poacher having dealt his own broad breast a blow that would have knocked a tailor down, stretched out to Acton the huge hand that had inflicted it.
North River; it had previously been pursued by a skater, who had seized it by the tail, when it turned upon him and inflicted a considerable wound on his wrist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflicted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
