Kallias, the torch-bearer in the Eleusinian mysteries, a relation of his, was being prosecuted on a capital charge by his private enemies.
He conducted the war ill, and on his return he was prosecutedfor peculation and convicted.
The festival was then resumed and prosecuted in its usual order.
This commission prosecuted its inquiries with unusual despatch, but its report was not in the hands of members on July 5, when the bill came on for its second reading.
Finally, theyprosecuted Carlile and Cobbett for instigating the poor labourers to crime.
Wellesley stipulated that the catholic question should be left open, and that the war should be prosecuted with the entire resources of the country, while Canning declined co-operation on the ground of the catholic question alone.
Having established himself close to Keswick in 1804, he prosecuted a literary career with the most untiring industry until his mental faculties at last failed him some thirty-six years later.
Hone, an antiquarian bookseller, was thrice prosecuted for blasphemous libels, in which the ministers had been held up to contempt.
The commission prosecuted careful researches into the local conditions of each municipality, and did not conclude its labours until 1835.
For this wild talk, of which, in all probability, he would himself have been ashamed long before he was five and twenty, he was prosecuted by the Lord Advocate.
Soon after he was discarded, he was prosecuted for having, in a fit of passion, beaten one of his servants savagely within the verge of the palace.
As the poison had not been administered, Goodman could be prosecuted only for a misdemeanour.
It is remarkable that no member of the Scottish Parliament proposed that any of the private men of Argyle's regiment should be prosecutedfor murder.
When Roden prosecutedin person, there was short shrift indeed.
If it hadn't been for me, we should have been prosecuted over the first number.
I shouldn't care to be a militant prosecutedby him.
In the Punjab the Government prosecuted a third batch of persons on charges of political conspiracy, six of whom have since been sentenced to death and the others to varying terms of imprisonment and transportation.
Arabinda Ghosh was also seized and prosecuted for conspiracy to wage war against the King, though he was afterwards acquitted for want of evidence.
About the year 1420, they maintained a long defensive war against the government, and the pope's legates, under the management of their brave captain Zizca; which was further prosecuted after him by the remaining Thaborites.
I shall first insert here John Knox's propositions, prosecuted in his second blast, extant at the end of Anton.
And against all sinful and unlawful acts, emitted and executed, published and prosecuted against our covenanted reformation.
Which they prosecuted with that rigour and restless, boundless rage, that the children then unborn, and their pitiful mothers do lament the memory of that day, for the loss of their fathers and husbands.
The corruptions and usurpations wronging this truth, that they contended against, were prelacy and the King's supremacy in ecclesiastical matters; which will be useful to hint a little, how they prosecuted the conflict.
Modern gilding is applied to numerous and diverse surfaces and by various distinct processes, so that the art is prosecuted in many ways, and is part of widely different ornamental and useful arts.
People have sometimes been wrongly prosecuted and convicted for torturing a dog when they were trying to kill it instantly and painlessly, but lacked the skill and nerve.
The Livery Company punished the fraudulent workman, corrected the idle apprentice, and also prosecuted the would-be interloper who attempted to infringe upon its rights and privileges.
While he prosecuted his ministry on earth, he had not fully attained possession of the kingdom.
The inquiry which has been prosecuted with a view to determine precisely the value of the talent in this case is difficult, and does not lead to any certain or important result.
A case emerged lately in the courts of this country, in which a proprietor, who had lost very large sums by the unfaithfulness of his agent, prosecuted the parties for restitution, on the ground of the agent's bad faith in the transactions.
In modern times pearl fishing has become a business, and is prosecuted on a great scale in several far separated regions.
A case came up lately in an English court of justice, in which a certain duke prosecuted his butler for malversation in his charge.
The fishermen prosecuted their avocation sometimes with line and baited hooks, sometimes with boat and nets.
After having prosecuted his ministry more than seven years, with remarkable zeal and success, he died a martyr.
The negotiations in regard to such points in our foreign relations as remain to be adjusted have been actively prosecutedduring the recess.
From beyond the garden he heard the voices of men calling to one another both far and near, and he guessed that diligent was the search that was being prosecuted for him.
The book was never challenged till a disreputable Bristol bookseller put some copies on sale to which he added some improper pictures, and he was prosecuted and convicted.
December 24, two Canadians prosecuted for having the property of the King in their possession.
Francis Masères, who succeeded Suckling as attorney general, prosecuted for the Crown, and Morison, Gregory and Antill defended Town Major Disney.
Mr. Forrest Oakes was also prosecuted for a like offence and condemned also to ask pardon of Ensign Nott, and to undergo fourteen days’ imprisonment.
In some way the Saragossa tribunal got wind of the betrothal twenty years previous and prosecutedher in 1513.
Vicente Peña, priest of Cifuentes was prosecuted in Cuenca for celebrating a burlesque mass and Don Eusebio de la Mota for assisting him.
In 1667 the Barcelona tribunal prosecuted Eudaldo Penstevan Bonguero for exporting horses to France.
The energy and severity with which it was prosecutedvirtually suppressed it in time.
Any man, accepting relief, who afterwards refuses to work and leaves the station without permission will be prosecuted for fraud.
Any one who escapes from the establishment or from outside work will be punished with detention on his recapture and anyone taking his uniform when escaping will be prosecutedfor theft.
Any person who has more than one shilling in his possession, and who conceals or denies this fact, may not only be required to pay for the relief which he receives, but may also be prosecuted for fraud.
Detention in the Labour House is a secondary punishment, and those who receive it form only a small proportion of the total number of persons prosecuted for begging.
What had become of his pretended impartiality when he allowed one of the great Trusts to do, with impunity, that which others were prosecuted for?
Then Roosevelt addressed the court and asked it not to impose damages upon the defendant, as he had not prosecuted the libeler with the intention of getting satisfaction in money.
It knew that the Interests had crawled back and dictated the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, and it surmised that, although he prosecuted the Trusts diligently, they did not feel greatly terrified.
Malpighi prosecuted this inquiry with his microscope, and first traced the progress of the egg during incubation.
A few years since a party of Norwegians came on and embarked in the business, which they have prosecuted ever since with advantage and profit.
These deposits of coal found at, and near the surface, are producing coal in limited quantities in different localities, but no works have been prosecuted with a view to supplying any but a limited local demand.
With renewed courage they prosecuted their voyage, and after ten days their hearts were made glad at the sight of the broad and beautiful river which they were entering, and which they supposed would bear them to the far-off western sea.
This was the beginning of a campaign in extraordinary contrast to that which had been so brilliantly prosecuted by Grant, whose methods and plans were held in contempt by his superior.
So the project of digging the canal was started while elaborate explorations were also being prosecuted through the bayous and swamps for some other feasible channel or road in case it should fail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prosecuted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
