The people feel more bitterly about these things when they consider injustice is perpetrated with a semblance of generosity.
I think that the Lord Advocate has described in the indictment the place where the crime was perpetrated with sufficient accuracy, and therefore I am for repelling the objection.
This fatal result was brought about, in a great measure, by the reaction in the minds of the people of the country, which resulted from the shocking cruelties perpetrated by her and by her party after the battle of Wakefield.
The queen perpetrated fresh cruelties, ordering the execution of all the principal leaders from the other side that fell into her hands.
Stealing through the most concealed part of his garden, he was approaching his own mansion with the air of a man who returns home in the morning after having perpetrated some dreadful deed of turpitude under cover of the night.
But who could have perpetrated the appalling deed?
Who is the lost man that has perpetratedsuch a dreadful crime?
All the windows, as is believed, were once filled with stained glass, for the large east window was glazed in 1733 with the numerous fragments that remained after the destroyers of ecclesiastical art had perpetrated their mischief.
The excessive destruction and cruelty perpetrated by the indiscriminate procedure of the Witchfinder-General incited a Mr. Gaule, vicar of Great Staughton in Huntingdonshire, to urge some objections to the inhuman character of his method.
Scotland one of the most Superstitious Countries in Europe--Scott's Relation of the Barbarities perpetrated in the Witch-trials under the Auspices of James VI.
Scotland one of the most Superstitious Countries in Europe--Scott's Relation of the Barbarities perpetrated in the Witch-trials under the auspices of James VI.
The darker characteristics of the practice, however, are presented in the burning declamations of Juvenal, only too faithfully exhibiting the unnatural atrocities perpetrated in the form and under the disguise of love-potions and charms.
Instead of this, they committed one of the most stupendous acts of short sighted folly ever perpetrated by a people.
It was an age of cruelty and the outrages perpetrated provoked reprisals on the part of the New Englanders.
The atrocious crime was perpetrated of bringing out the mother of Pole, the aged Countess of Salisbury, last of the Plantagenets, from her prison in the Tower to the headsman's block.
Happily Kaspar Commelyn died in 1731, before the joke was perpetrated in "Species Plantarum.
A grand razzia is being perpetrated by the united forces of the Sultans of Maradee, Gouber, and Korgum, with the assistance of a thousand Tuarick horse, on the territories of the Sultan of Sakkatou.
I think it well that you, a general high in command under the French king, should know the atrocities perpetrated in his name by this man upon defenseless people.
Surely such an outrage could never be perpetratedby civilized soldiers?
Las Torres at Almenara, where he had again perpetrated a horrible massacre, heard the news of great preparations that Peterborough was making for the supply of his army, and considering his position to be unsafe again retreated hastily.
Better a thousand times that a handful of French officers and men should be allowed to join the enemy's ranks than that the national honor of Spain should be soiled by a massacre perpetrated just after a surrender.
No sooner, however, is the murder perpetrated than the chief who bespoke it hastens in seeming indignation with a band of followers to the murderer's village.
When a man has died, and his death is believed to have been caused by magic, the people resort to divination in order to discover the wicked magician who has perpetrated the crime.
Sheridan said, that no robbery committed by the most desperate of the French, and no crimes that had been perpetrated in France, exceeded in infamy the injustice and tyranny of those sovereigns.
Wheeler was not relieved on the advance of Havelock: the Nana, driven to despair, perpetrated the wholesale murder which blackens the page of Indian history with the name of Cawnpore.
This audacious departure from every decent observance of truth and honesty was perpetrated by a man who is lauded by the savons of France to this day as one of their illustrious number.
Robberies of arms were perpetratedby unarmed bands, who were nevertheless not resisted.
His object was to prevent substantial bribery from being perpetrated under the mask of giving employment, and therefore to deprive all persons of the right to vote who should be employed by a candidate at the election.
Various acts of oppression and cruelty to British subjects were perpetrated by the authorities of Ava.
The Poles in Posen revolted, and perpetrated the utmost atrocities, but were put down by the Prussian troops without obtaining any of the objects for which they so wildly fought, and so vaguely demanded.
Cruel oppressions were perpetrated by the mine owners and overseers, especially upon women and children; and frequently parents showed an utter callousness to the sufferings of their offspring.
It hardly required a new outrage, perpetrated by Bacchides, to light the torch of civil war.
And he, Merlin, gloried in this, the most fiendishly evil law ever perpetratedfor the degradation of the human race.
The hierarchy liked you, but were not sure that they ought to approve a Vestal who had perpetrated such exploits as yours, particularly your trouncing poor old Faltonius.
Almo has practically repeated the vagary he perpetrated at Hippo.
Mr. Prescott, you are fully informed as to the hoax that was perpetrated on me yesterday morning?
The murder of the housekeeper was given glaring prominence because of the general belief that it had been perpetrated by the Gray Phantom.
Was it possible no one had yet discovered that a second murder had been perpetrated in the Sylvanus Gage house?
The total absence of finger prints and other tangible clews strongly suggested that the deed could have been perpetrated only by a criminal in the Phantom's class.
I perpetrated another good joke myself when I went to you and borrowed your identity, never guessing that you were the murderer.
As you may remember, I perpetrated the same kind of joke on the Duke, and he doesn't seem to relish that brand of humor.
Provided, of course, we learn who perpetrated the outrage.
Syrian ecclesiastic Dom Denis Chavis, the accomplice of Cazotte in the extraordinary literary atrocity shortly afterward perpetrated by the latter under the name of a sequel or continuation of the Thousand and One Nights [6] (v.
Indeed, I confess the latter version seems to me so curiously and perversely and unutterably bad that I cannot conceive how Cazotte can have perpetrated it and can only regard it as a bad joke on his part.
During his lifetime no such crime had been perpetrated in the village, and his only comfort was that the actors in it were strangers.
If the deed was not, in your opinion, perpetratedwithin the last few hours, when do you suppose it was done?
During this time South Carolina has twice called her people together in solemn Convention, to take into consideration, the aggressions and unconstitutional wrongs, perpetrated by the people of the North on the people of the South.
How have you dared to plot and carry out the dastardly deed that you have perpetrated this night?
Peel had announced to the House of Commons in very lofty language that Government would exact an ample reparation for the outrage perpetrated on Pritchard at Tahiti, while Guizot evinced no disposition to make any.
Ellenborough's ridiculous and bombastic proclamations, and the massacres and havoc perpetrated by his armies, are regarded with universal contempt and abhorrence.
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