He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron: thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
The dishes that held Philip's food were rude vessels made of baked clay, of pieces of bark, of bits of hollowed stone, or of wood.
Instead of being pushed along by paddles, it was driven by the wind by means of large pieces of cloth stretched across long, strong sticks of wood.
He had never so much as heard of one before, and he thought it very strange that any one should be afraid of little pieces of lead.
His arrows and spears were tipped with bone or with triangular piecesof flint.
He was never rocked in a cradle, but was strapped in a kind of bag made of broad pieces of bark and covered with soft fur.
He snatched it up, tore it open and removed three pieces of white paper.
Round it were grouped in various attitudes of dejection sundry other pieces of travelling-gear and Mr. Iff.
He found instead this hat, and knowing no better tore it topieces trying to find what he was after.
If I were a man, and had to become a sub-inspector of Native Police, I would at least blacken my face so as to hide my shame when I rode out with my fellow-murderers and cutthroats.
A whiter man--or a better gentleman--never put foot in a stirrup.
These pieces were joined up by any jumble of notes sung by the characters on the stage, usually with no artistic meaning whatsoever, known as the recitative.
I did "it was likely that the car would stop some pieces of metal.
Make no mistake, we shall have to cut the German Army to piecesif we are to win.
They will eat all sorts of things, even wood, mud, andpieces of coal, as if from sheer cussedness.
This continuity is an absolute necessity to every spoken play; imagine the effect if Shakespeare or Ibsen had written little pieces of rhyming verse joined up by any jumble of nonsensical prose!
Clarke's poem (along with Bairnsfather's pictures) is one of the very first pieces I have read that really gets this atmosphere.
The great clock, the pride of Muenster, as that of Strasburg is of the Alsatian capital, was broken to pieces with hammers.
Thereupon Herlembald swept down at the head of his mercenaries, surrounded the crowd, and hewed them to pieces to the last man, "like the vilest cattle.
He was nearly torn to piecesby his clergy; an act of violence which greatly furthered the cause of the Patarines.
They promised her twenty pieces of gold for her pains.
Mark and Aaron were condemned to be torn to pieces alive; and, of course, the usual spoliation ensued.
But Baron Schenk von Teutenburg, imperial lieutenant, met them, utterly routed them, cut to pieces a large number, and made many prisoners.
Then I saw all the saints in heaven snatch the book away, and tear it into a thousand pieces that fell down in a rain.
In those times the collectors of the works of a celebrated writer would insert any fugitive pieces of merit, and pass them under a name which was certain of securing the reader's favour.
He appears to have published about two hundred pieces of this sort, much sought after by the curious for their rarity: Brunet complains he could never discover a complete collection.
Steevens has justly observed, however, on these skeletons, that although "the drift of these dramatic pieces cannot be collected from the mere outlines before us, yet we must not charge them with absurdity.
These pieces must have been detestable, and the actors mere buffoons," exclaim the northern critics, whose imaginations have a coldness in them, like a frost in spring.
One place shows the crust broken up and with the edges of the pieces overlapped, like ice broken by a sudden rise of back-water, and in this position they have been firmly cemented.
I had to hand them over to him, and he tore them up and chucked the pieces into the slop-pail.
After "Stables" we were taken to get our arms and saddlery, and shown how to take our carbines to pieces and put them together again.
We were also taught, after a fashion, how to take to pieces and to lay down a railway line, and two or three times we were shown how to use dynamite.
Here they came in with their loot, their doubloons and pieces of eight"; and John's eyes twinkled with enjoyment of the rich old romantic words, as though they were old port.
In one of the caves I had noticed some broken pieces of fallen rock.
And then I told my story as it is already known to the reader, and I have to confess that, when I came to the chestful of doubloons and pieces of eight, I had a very attentive audience.
Send me word where you are, as soon as you get a chance; and good luck to you, old chap, and your doubloons and pieces of eight!
While we were eating, two or three little lizards with tails curiously twirled round and round, like a St. Catherine wheel, made themselves friendly, and atepieces of bread from our hands without fear.
The ends of the binding-timbers are secured by bolts and oak suspension-pieces to the other two girders inclosing the square.
The semicircular ends of the transept are filled in with tracery, formed by radiating timbers, strutted apart with short pieces placed in concentric rings.
To complete the square, two more girders were raised in a similar manner, and fixed between the connecting-pieces over the columns.
There was great rejoicing on her coming, for they all thought that she had been torn to pieces and had long been dead.
The only evidence of sheer femininity was a tea table furnished with old pieces of silver she had picked up in France.
That the inhabitants of the lake-dwellings were acquainted with textile art, is proved by the discovery of an innumerable quantity of clay-weights for weaving purposes, and by pieces of burnt woven flax.
The contrast between the unartistic architecture of the Romans, and the master-pieces of Greek art, was so striking, that they were forced to endeavour to improve their architecture, and art became to a certain degree fashionable.
Nothing is left us of these two master-pieces but the glowing descriptions of those who saw and admired them.
They are generally painted, often ornamented with pieces of foliaceous mica to make them glitter, or with turquoises and other precious stones.
They often cut out the decorated parts of a pillaged Greek temple, and fixed these pieces at random in their houses, caring very little whether there was a congruity between these and their own wall-decoration or not.
This embryo, by degrees, developed into the master-pieces of Greek sculpture.
The white man alone, has produced idealised master-pieces in sculpture and painting.
All the pieces of the boat were recovered, and, under the skilful hands of our ship carpenters, have been put together and the whole vessel is now set up and on view in our museum.
At night, after his wife had cleared off the supper table, he laid the foot-long pieces in their place.
The scene in which Tircis describes the lovely Silvia bound naked to a tree by a brutal satyr, and released by Amyntas, whose passion she treated with scorn, is one of the most beautiful pieces of poetic painting.
Chips concerning Scotland, being a collection of his Pieces relative to that country; with Historical Notes, and a Life of the Author.
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, consisting of old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and other Pieces of our earlier Poets, together with a few of later date.
Popular Ballads and Songs from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions; with Translations of similar Pieces from the Ancient Danish language, and a few Original by the editor.
From the point of view of a general principle, the two pieces naturally followed each other; they were two chapters of the same gospel.
He had made a hole in the dungeon of Pignerol by scratching with old knives, pieces of kitchen utensils, etc.
Turenne once broke up his plate to distribute the pieces to his troops, who were perishing from want.
Footnote 221: Plaques: pieces of embossed silver, at the lower part of which was placed a chandelier.
The enemy's field-pieces were out of our sight behind the ridge which the enemy had to pass in charging, and they went on firing without any intermission.
Four burghers with me were blown to pieces and my rifle was smashed.
Their big lyddite guns sent over huge shells, which mowed down all the trees on the kopje, while about fifty field pieces were incessantly barking away from a shorter range.
At twilight we were still marching, and by the light of the last rays of the sun we fired our two valuable field-pieces simultaneously, as arranged.
There were naval guns shelling it from different directions, while batteries of field-pieces pounded away incessantly.
Nothing daunted by the repeated failures in the morning, our assailant charged again, now one position and then another, trying to get their field-pieces in position, but each time without success.
We preferred the tar cans because the beef tins often came to pieces after the solder with which they are fastened had been subjected to the heat of the fire.
Smith, was stormed again, this time the British being assisted by two field-pieces which they had brought up with them in the ranks and which were to be used as soon as the soldiers were under fire.
Their right and left flanks were composed of cavalry, whilst the centre was formed of infantry regiments; their big guns were placed in good positions and their field pieces were evenly distributed amongst the different army divisions.
Commandant Du Toit had gone there with a patrol and found the bodies in a shocking condition, plundered and cut to pieces with assegais, and, according to the trace, the murderers had come from Nelspruit Station.
But the scriptures assure us that the kingdom of God will break inpieces all other kingdoms, and be established on earth, even as it is in heaven, and the palace of God (tabernacle) be in the midst of the human family.
They got up, and looking down the face of the cliff, saw, some eight feet below them, a projection half hidden by the branch of a tree, on which the scattered pieces of stick clearly showed the existence of a rude nest.
Which of you had the audacity to throw pieces of bread at me?
At one end of this hall was a board used for the various school notices, to which there were always affixed two or three pieces of paper containing announcements about examinations and other matters of general interest.
Isabella was called out of the carriage, two pieces of wood were laid between the seats, and on these one of the cushions was placed, so that he could rest, and indeed lie down, for the carriage was a large one.
Our piquets and advanced posts were several times attacked, and on the 19th April a company of De Rolle's was surrounded and cut to pieces by the Turkish horsemen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
