Besides these murders, five homicides had been committed in the course of perpetrating other crimes, including burglary and robbery.
While perpetratingatrocities which cannot be named, a man was captured who had letters from the governor of Santiago to some of the leading inhabitants.
Pluto, in perpetrating the rape of Proserpine, started up in his chariot through a cleft of the earth in the vale of Enna in Sicily, and, having seized his prize, disappeared again by the way that he came.
And not content withperpetrating these enormous atrocities, you have degraded yourself in the eyes of all Rome to the level of the lowest mountebank and buffoon, so as to make yourself the object of contempt as well as abhorrence.
In this reply Warburton extenuates, without justifying, the act of his friend, and is more successful in his attack upon Bolingbroke for exposing the treachery than in his defence of Pope for perpetrating it.
But in the case of the counterfeiter the very act of committing the crime reminds him of the threat of the law, and yet he is imperturbable while perpetrating it.
The new impetus given to mob violence, however, was not to spend its force without perpetrating some outrage, and a number of cowardly attacks were made upon Mormons.
But when we consider our cause further and take our general position into consideration, then the question arises whether we are not perpetrating a murder on our people if we continue the war.
She managed to convince the king, by means of her fellow conspirators, that the Huguenots regarded him as an accomplice in the perpetrating of the outrage, and that so his life was in danger because of them.
He forbade the building of churches, punished many with fines and dishonour, inflicted in some cases bodily pains and even death, and gave official sanction to perpetrating upon them all sorts of scandalous enormities.
Also, that the efficacy of the laws should be tried against those citizens of the United States who had joined in perpetrating the offence.
So that men sometimes come to their senses long before perpetrating the suggested crime, sometimes at the very moment before perpetrating it, sometimes only afterward.
The soldiers were glad to be fired upon from a house, for it furnished them with an excuse for rushing in, and perpetrating deeds of atrocious violence in its secret chambers.
A great number must have perished, had not the flight of the American troops, after perpetrating their unfeeling act, enabled the inhabitants of the country to come to their relief.
The Trappists, a monkish order of highway robbers, were constantly employed in abducting females, confining them in their monastery, andperpetrating the most atrocious rapes.
These disorders gave Henry the opportunity of gratifying his revengeful feelings in accusing the inhabitants before the pope of sacrilege, and of entering their territory and perpetrating the most barbarous cruelty.
It would expose them to persecution forperpetrating a crime.
He has never been able to visit his mother's grave except by secret and at night, and as one who wasperpetrating a crime.
General Taylor immortalized himself by perpetrating one of the grandest bulls on record, in which he attained what a certain literary professor calls "a perfection hardly to be surpassed.
The significance of this act, in part, may justify its commission, though it would be more in harmony with our ideal to believe him incapable of perpetrating such an offence.
His heart relented when he remembered that his mistress had been so kind to him; but then he thought that there was no one in the house who could hear him, and he determined upon perpetrating the deed.
Within an hour of perpetrating this barbarity, he has met me with a look pleading for forgiveness, which I would have given him had he offended me, oh much--much more.
In the end the party, after perpetratingseveral murders, encountered a considerable number of the enemy, with the loss of one of their men severely wounded.
This did not offer itself, but they actually drove the Illinois out of their own country, after perpetrating a butchery of women and children.
Kirke, who could be bold enough in perpetrating barbarities on defenceless people, was too faint-hearted to attempt forcing the boom in the river, and relieving the place.
In this campaign the Royalist generals accuse him of still perpetrating unnecessary cruelties, though they endeavoured to set him a different example.
The whites in the District are perpetrating these identical acts upon seven thousand blacks daily.
The whites in the District are perpetrating these identical acts upon seven thousand blacks daily.
If charged with perpetrating outrageous cruelty upon them, all those oppressors would have repelled the charge with indignation.
If any thing further were needed, we might speak of the peculiar facilities which these men have for perpetrating acts of cruelty and injustice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perpetrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
