The Lelacs were three-quarter Cree and the Indians here have a way of meting out justice to their own people in a case like this that even Canadian officials might envy.
Her tenderness was severe, meting out punishment and reward with equal justice; merit and demerit, she took both into account.
He was peremptory, and sometimes even peevish, with the French executive after he had them in his hand; with Italy he assumed a parental rôle, meting out chastisement and reward as best suited his purpose.
At the close of the second Carlist war, in 1876, Alfonso XII signalized his victory by meting out to them a terrible punishment, abrogating the precious fueros that the Tree of Guernica had guarded for so many centuries.
Their success was due to observing frugality, treating the people with kindness, meting out strict justice, and faithfully obeying the ancestral behest to abstain from seeking high titles.
An annalist of his time says: "Yoritomo was impartial in bestowing rewards, but so severe in meting out punishments as to seem almost inhuman.
The judge who pronounces sentence upon the evil and unfortunate knows as little of the meaning of the terms he uses in meting out punishment as the mail clerk knows of the contents of the letters he handles at his daily task.
Yet before he skyppeth oute of hys couche and departeth from his darling, if he like her well, he will apoint her where to mete shortlye after, with a warninge to worke warely for some chetes, that their meting might be the merier.
In the fore noon I went to meting & heard Mr. Eals his text was in the 5th Chapter of James 16th verse a good sermon I rote a letter & sent home & in the after noon to meeting again.
Being Sunday we went to Hear Mr. Willard[145] and after Meting our Men went to Entrench down at the George tavern and About Brake of day they got Hom.
Being Sunday we went tometing and heard a fine Sermon from psalms 14-11 this day our men went on fatigue as usual but the enemy did not fire upon them.
Being Sunday I went to meting Nothing more this day.
Being Sunday the officers had hard work to get hands for meting it was so cold nothing more this day.
For a year and a half she continued in the Eastern States, speaking in most or all of them with marked success; the papers meting out to her full commendation for her efforts.
For it is a ful noble thing 2905 Whan thyn eyen have meting With that relyke precious, Wherof they be so desirous.
Justice in no wise consists in meting out to another that exact measure of reward or punishment which we think and decree his merit, or what we call his crime, which is more often merely his error, deserves.
The Infinite Justice of God does not consist in metingout exact measures of punishment for human frailties and sins.
His sigh seemed at once to breathe a deep sympathy and to call for the meting out of justice at whatever cost--to some one else.
She was beginning to feel desirous of meting out exact and even handed justice.
He had other concern than the meting of even well-deserved punishment to strange men who masqueraded in the metal of his own house, for he had seen that these men were tricked out in the insignia that marked his personal followers.
But say the word, Thuvia of Ptarth," he begged, "and naught will give me greater pleasure than meting to this fellow the punishment he has earned.
Sunday was the day of days which the tyrant preferred for meting out this punishment.
It was a new way, to my mind, of meting out justice to a prisoner to deny him the right to appear at his own trial.
And he added, as if he were meting out severe but just punishment, "I shall occupy the spare room.
Let's not talk about it," cried she, angry at her own weakness in not meting out to him what he apparently expected and certainly deserved.
But nedes day departe moste hem sone, And whanne hir speche doon was and hir chere, 1710 They twinne anoon as they were wont to done, And setten tyme of meting eft y-fere; And many a night they wroughte in this manere.
Fortunately for our tale and its readers, Nemesis, in dealing out death and meting vengeance, has necessarily allied herself with Justice.
The keen eye of a fanatic had been upon him--one who appeared to have authority for meting out chastisement.
Efterwart again, at ther meting be nycht at the kirk of Northberick, wher the deuell, cled in a blak gown with a blak hat vpon his head, preachit vnto a gret nomber of them out of the pulpit, having lyk leicht candles rond about him.
When evening came on, no doubt Buonaparte began to question the accuracy of his “military arithmetic”--a phrase happily applied to this meting out death by the hour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
