The figure of a fallen Minister boozing away his own intolerable reflections, was not calculated to pacify that notoriously hard drinker, Sir Robert, already soundly pilloried in the Register, and severely indited by Pasquin.
Doctor Shebbeare was pilloried in 1759, for his "Letters to the People of England.
Daniel Defoe, again, waspilloried in 1703 for his pamphlet, "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters.
Defoe gave himself up, and waspilloried first in Cheapside, and afterwards in the Temple.
Again, in 1814, he ordered Lord Cochrane, the famous sea-fighter of Brasque Roads fame, to be pilloried for conspiring with others to spread false news.
At Preston, Lancashire, in 1814, a man about sixty years of age was pilloried for a similar offence, and it is said that he was the last person punished in this manner in the town.
One pilloried individual, grimly jesting at his own sorrows, told an inquiring friend that he was celebrating his nuptials with Miss Wood, and that his neighbour, whom the beadle was whipping, had come to dance at the wedding.
The last occupants, a man and a woman, were pilloried together about 1810, for fortune-telling.
Revolt simmers beneath the calm words; the butchers are pilloried by the bitter satire.
In his admirable book La Guerre infernale,[58] Gustave Dupin has pilloried gruesome specimens of militarist Christianity.
He was pilloried and imprisoned, and his books burnt by the hangman.
He won the first prize on five occasions, was pilloried by the Conservatives though he was a favourite with the masses.
The Socrates here pilloried is certainly not the Socrates of history; his teaching was not immoral.
I saw one Carr pilloried at Charing-cross for a libel, which was burnt before him by the hangman.
Oates was sentenced to be whipped and pilloried with the utmost severity.
A person who exported fuller's earth, contrary to the King's proclamation, waspilloried and fined 2,000 pounds.
Pyrnne was sentenced to be degraded by Oxford and disbarred by Lincoln's Inn, to be fined 5,000 pounds, to be pilloried and to have his ears cut off, and then to be imprisoned for life.
Jacob Ilive, for denying in a pamphlet (1753) the truth of revelation, was pilloried thrice, and sent to hard labour for three years.
A person who exported fuller's earth, contrary to the King's proclamation, was pilloried and fined two thousand pounds.
Whomsoever he pilloried was laid bare in all respects; physically and morally, no single trait of him was forgotten.
At the foot of every prison-scene he inscribed the name of the vice that he had pilloried there, and subjoined the predicted damnation from Holy Writ.
He contributed materially to the former result, but as to the latter, the sixth year of his appearance upon the stage as Prince Mochihito's mandate-bearer saw his own head pilloried in Kyoto.
Her reputation has been pilloried forever by the eloquent advocate in his defence of Marcus Coelius.
That men were pilloriedand women ducked by our law-abiding forbears rouses a thrill of hot indignation which dies down into a dull ember of curiosity when we reflect that they will never be pilloried or ducked again.
His weeping wife stood on a stool and kissed his poor pilloried face, and when his ears were cut off she placed them in a clean handkerchief and took them away, with emotions unspeakable and undying love.
As late as 1830 a man was pilloried for that crime.
So fierce sometimes was the attack of the populace with various annoying and heavy missiles on pilloried prisoners that several deaths are known to have ensued.
A boy lifted his hand and flung a rotten egg at the pilloried wretch.
On the day on which Oates was pilloried in Palace Yard he was mercilessly pelted and ran some risk of being pulled in pieces.
It was on the day on which Oates was pilloried in Palace Yard that the illustrious chief of the Puritans, oppressed by age and infirmities, came to Westminster Hall to make this request.
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