The laws of the State affixed the death penaltyfor stealing a slave.
Though Dillingham committed a crime to which the death penalty was attached in some of the States, the jury affixed the minimum penalty of three years' imprisonment for the offense.
She remembered there was a terrible penalty attached to hesitation or disobedience.
And when they are discovered, the penaltyis death.
I think never again will I sanction the use of women in enterprises of this character, however willing they may be to take the risk and pay the penalty of failure.
But she said whoever was caught sending him any would suffer the penalty of death.
Tyranny drove him into madness, and then exacted the full penalty of the wild acts which that madness prompted.
The riches of the banker were of a doubtful character, however; some time afterward she was convicted of forgery, and paid the penalty with his life.
The common penaltyfor tipplers continuing to drink in an alehouse, was that such persons should forfeit 3s.
Sometimes as an alternative penalty for crimes was the system of enlistment for the Army and Navy, with which may be coupled the high-handed proceedings of the "Press-gang.
When people have the wrong sort of profile, they pay a very heavy penalty for being glad.
Now, as a penalty for that speech, I shall pelt you with proofs,' said Langdale, laughing.
It was not only the irreparable mischief to both their lives that made Mrs. Tareling's immunity from allpenalty so intolerable to him, but also the recoil against injustice which, as a rule, moves a man more keenly than a woman.
No specific acts of treason were even charged against him; and he earnestly denied any designs whatever against the Queen and kingdom, nor can it be doubted that he merely paid the penalty of others' misdeeds.
Would it be safe to speak according to knowledge, when "damnation" is the penalty for so doing?
No man shall be compelled to agree with it upon penalty of losing his standing in the community now, or his "soul" in the hereafter.
He ordered that the priests and their children should attend school, onpenalty of being whipped.
Under the Czar Alexis, the penalty for such offense was death.
In two or three weeks I'll step down and out of your life; that will be penalty enough, don't you think?
Penalty for injury or defacement of any board, &c.
The person on whom the notice is served is liable to a penalty if it is not complied with.
The keeper of any such house who, after requisition in writing from the local authority, refuses or neglects to affix or renew such notice, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding L5, and to a further penalty of 10s.
L5; for second or any subsequent offence, double the amount of the last penalty which has been imposed, but in no case to exceed L200 (s.
The court may impose a penalty of L5, or less, with regard to nuisances generally (s.
For wilful damage of works or property belonging to a local authority, in cases where no other penalty is provided, L5, or less (s.
We Saints have to let you Vogarians kill some of us, first--our penalty for being ethical.
There is a severe penalty for those who disobey this rule.
There's a severe penalty for unauthorized fraternization.
The penalty of disobedience and detection was death.
Liberal grants of land were made to settlers who were compelled to provide themselves with wives under penalty of forfeiture within eighteen months.
I translated this, to show in what subjection the Portuguese keep all the natives of these countries, as without such a pass they are not suffered to navigate these seas, under penalty of losing their lives, ships, and goods.
These Articles to be performed, according to the time specified, under the penaltyof fifty pounds, payable by either party's default in performance.
The author was pilloried, fined, and imprisoned; his publisher condemned in the penalty of five hundred pounds, and barred for ever from printing and selling books, and the licenser removed and punished.
We forbid the said butchers to retain any skins and make French shoes, under a penalty of 3 livres for each skin retained, but we permit them to retain some of an inferior quality to make shoes for the savages.
On August 4th he forbade Queylus to go to Montreal under penaltyof disobedience.
Champlain forbade anyone to trade wine or eau de vie with the natives under penalty of corporal punishment and the loss of their salaries as servants of the company.
He was not punished, for Ham knew well that no further penalty was required.
Its penalty was death, and more than death, for it was usually death by torture.
The fault of the man who hesitates to obey my word is entirely his own, and the penalty thereof he knows," said Umzilikazi, pitilessly.
A man's first duty is to his own home, but he is not thereby excused from doing his duty to the state; for if he fails in this second duty it is under the penalty of ceasing to be a freeman.
I am afraid he deserved the penalty pretty often, and got it sometimes.
And Pompey went away grinning with his chocolate tray as Miss Beatrix ran up to her mother and ended her sally of mischief in her common way, with a kiss--no wonder that upon paying such a penalty her fond judge pardoned her.
