Warrants soon followed, as a matter of course, which had to be answered by a personal appearance before city magistrates, thus causing theinfliction of a deeper mortification than had yet assailed him.
It would be seeking to do right, in the inflictionof a wrong to himself.
At this very moment the Lord appeared unto Moses, and bade him inform Pharaoh of the infliction of the last plague, the slaying of the first-born.
The various steps, in this course of moral degradation, are here represented as a judicial infliction by the Deity.
Resentment, in cases which concern the public peace, naturally leads to the infliction of punishment; the object of which is to prevent similar conduct in others, not to gratify personal vengeance.
I bore the infliction for a little while patiently enough, listening to this charivari of sounds, but finally retired.
During my whole stay in Bokhara the heat was intolerable, and I had to undergo besides the additional infliction of drinking warm water as a preventative against getting the rishte, viz.
Suffice it that I submitted and went through with the cruel infliction of a shave by a French barber; tears of exquisite agony coursed down my cheeks now and then, but I survived.
And the first thing that occurred was the infliction on us of a placard fairly reeking with wretched English.
The seats and backs are thickly padded and cushioned and are very comfortable; you can smoke if you wish; there are no bothersome peddlers; you are saved the infliction of a multitude of disagreeable fellow passengers.
In addition to this, in as far as the university is concerned, there is the infliction of perhaps the very worst patronage that could be devised or even imagined.
Even the Castle has suffered the infliction of the modern Athenian taste, by the erection of two or three piles within its ramparts which have every appearance of being cotton manufactories.
And now the reporters, who had sat listlessly under the infliction of the previous remarks, woke to sudden life, and every word of his lordship was caught and taken down as eagerly as if it had dropped from the lips of Shakespeare.
Or can it be that this rule had its origin in the wisdom of their remote predecessors, devising artful means to escape the infliction of a tedious charge without appearing disrespectful to the Bench?
Swanhilda turned upon her homeward way, the adhesive Elf still tripping ceaselessly about her face, and bore her infliction with a virtuous patience.
What is to be done," exclaimed the king, as he entered "to meet this infliction of divine justice?
Now in God's infliction of suffering these two principles come clearly into view.
Besides; Christ bore the penalty of all sin; infinite justice demands no more, any further infliction of suffering is intended only for discipline.
Hence the suffering that is inflicted is not punishment; it is discipline; the Fatherly infliction of love.
She mimicked the expected guests in turn, and did it so cleverly that her companions were both obliged to laugh, so everybody prepared for the infliction of a country dinner in the best possible spirits.
Besides, why should a man with such a frightful infliction attach himself to ladies in a public place, and subject them to insult, without so much as warning them what they might expect to meet with?
Another second must elapse before the command can reach the tail, so that more than two seconds transpire between the infliction of the wound and the muscular response of the part wounded.
The quickness of thought has passed into a proverb, and the notion that any measurable time elapsed between the infliction of a wound and the feeling of the injury would have been rejected as preposterous thirty years ago.
He proved that the worms inoculate each other by the infliction of visible wounds with their claws.
When the infliction ceased, an involuntary feeling of thanksgiving to God, for the fortitude with which I had been enabled to endure it, arose in my soul, to which I began aloud to give utterance.
He was fond of seeing with his own eyes the infliction of tortures.
The nobles were reduced to obedience by the infliction of severe punishments.
My present observations refer to corporal punishment, and the implements for the infliction thereof.
Sir Rupert, however, would not have a breath of murmur against the three maids, and the Duchess made herself so thoroughly agreeable and sympathetic in every other way that Helena soon forgot the infliction of the three maids.
Ericson had a strong general objection to the infliction of capital punishment--to the punishment that is irreparable, that cannot be recalled.
Taking a wide view of the field, I think there may be several cases in which a resort to the infliction of physical pain as the only available means of establishing authority may be the only alternative.
The Infliction of Pain sometimes the speediest Remedy.
Although, by these various modes of exciting imaginary fears, there is no direct and outward infliction of bodily suffering, the effect produced on the delicate organization of the brain by such excitements is violent in the extreme.
Slight as this is, it will prove to be sufficient if it always comes--if no case of disobedience or of willful wrong-doing of any kind is allowed to pass unnoticed, or is not followed by the infliction of the proper penalty.
By such management as this, it is plain that Egbert is brought into actual co-operation with his mother in the infliction of a punishment to cure him of a fault.
The child may be whipped, or tied to the bed-post, and kept in a constrained and uncomfortable position for a long time, or shut up in solitude and darkness, or punished by the infliction of bodily suffering in other ways.
There are many cases in which, by the exercise of a little tact and ingenuity, the parent can actually secure the co-operation of the child in the infliction of the punishment prescribed for the curing of a fault.
But the evil is unmistakeable and most pernicious, when it is proclaimed, that in the new and expected order of things, the old morality will be entirely superfluous, a mere folly, an infliction on ourselves and others.
Here, in his opinion, the Christian was bound to put up with even an abuse of power and the infliction of unjust punishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infliction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
