Their leader, an American by birth, had been sentenced to penal servitude for life, for the murder of the captain of a French ship, of which he was chief officer.
His speeches before the tribunal which sentenced him to be hanged are models of noble and eloquent dignity.
The procureur du roi (king's attorney) made a violent speech against the prisoner, who was found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for five years.
It is further related that this promise was faithlessly broken, and the guilty Ahmed sentenced by Rodrigo to be burned alive for his crimes.
The Bishop of Beauvais then sentenced her to prison for the rest of her life, on condition that she resume woman's apparel; yet one morning she woke to find no dress in her prison but the clothes she had worn in battle.
Schmitz was freed on a technicality, after being found guilty and sentenced to five years.
Ames's brother was convicted on second trial and sentenced to six and a half years in the penitentiary, while two of his accomplices received shorter terms.
Lord Jeffries sentenced you to death; the decree was signed, to be executed immediately.
Why, the man is a felon, convicted of crime, sentenced to deportation.
That we had been sentenced to exile, to prolonged servitude in some foreign land, was all that any of us knew--to what special section of the world fate had allotted us remained unknown.
I had been sentenced to twenty years--twenty years of a living death--and that alone remained impressed on my mind.
Only that I was roughly forbidden to speak, called every foul name the learned Judge could think of, and then sentenced to twenty years penal servitude beyond seas," I answered soberly.
He did not know; but he said that Colonel Hannay had confined him, and added, that he was sentenced to death.
We desired to see the fetwah, or decree, of the judge who sentenced him.
Your Lordships have now seen this Mustapha Khân imprisoned andsentenced to death by Colonel Hannay, without judge and without accuser, without any evidence, without the fetwah, or any sentence of the law.
I procured the rope from a manufactory attached to the prison in which thosesentenced to hard labour are employed, and having well secured it here, watched my time to drop it within your reach.
I had committed some slight offence, so trifling, that men of any sense would have passed it over; but I was seized upon by the despots, and sentenced to a hundred lashes.
Curiously enough, the jurors remained uninfluenced by this testimony, and pronounced her guilty of the crime laid to her charge, and in accordance with this verdict the court sentenced her to three years' imprisonment with hard labor.
We may add that her husband, Michael Cleary, was tried for murder and sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.
All this she freely confessed when brought to trial, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
They also sentenced seven other Apaches to chains in the guardhouse.
They asked us only a few questions and then Victoria was released and I was sentenced to the guardhouse.
Such a breach of discipline was a most serious offence; indeed, Jucundus was sentenced to be walled up alive.
The culprit was found, and at the Assizes sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, ordered to pay five pounds and to find sureties for his good behaviour for two years.
This was that the three criminals should suffer the fate which they had declared themselves ready to bear; they were condemned as traitors and sentenced to loss of life and estate.
To let this tiger loose again was too dangerous, and finally some pretext for breaking the treaty was made and Christian was sentenced to a life imprisonment in the Castle of Sanderberg on the island of Femern.
They were sentenced to transportation, but why should we spread vice among innocent bushmen, and disseminate wickedness through Norfolk Island?
The recorder, we observe, passed sentence of transportation yesterday on a fellow named Corkery, who had some years ago been similarly sentenced by one of the judges, but for whose release his worship was unable to account.
Convicted of his offence, he is sentenced to seven years' transportation to one of the most remote quarters of the globe.
Once, in an unaccountable fit of morality, it sentenced a luckless rogue to lose his hand for theft; but, for obvious and selfish reasons, the judges appear to have refrained from again taking cognizance of this crime.
Wolfe Tone was betrayed by an old school friend and sentenced to be shot.
The meeting had been forbidden by the authorities, and O'Connell was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to prison for two months.
Wright was convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison, but committed suicide before he was sent to the penitentiary.
Everything that money and influence could do was done to save him, but it all failed; he was sentenced to death.
A person under obligation by religious vow to remain celibate or one who has been sentenced to a state of celibacy by an ecclesiastical court cannot conclude marriage.
If the husband has within five years undergone frequent convictions for crime and has been sentenced in the aggregate to imprisonment for three years or more, leaving his wife habitually without means of support.
When either party is sentenced to confinement in the State prison for life, or for three years or more, and is actually confined at the time.
No person may conclude a marriage with any one who has been legally sentenced for a murder or a murderous assault committed on the former's consort, even if the sentence has not yet entered into effect.
If the husband is sentenced to punishment for an offence specified in Article 348 et seq.
The marriage was declared null and he was sentenced to receive sixty blows for attempting to contract an illegal secondary marriage.
When either party has been sentenced to confinement at hard labour for life or for five years or more in the State prison, or in jail, or house of correction.
After such a remarriage no new petition for divorce can be entertained for any cause, except that one of the parties since the remarriage has been sentenced to a punishment which involves corporal detention and is branded with infamy.
Women, for such idle words as women are always using, were sentenced to be whipped at the cart's-tail through every market town in Dorset; a lad named Tutching was condemned to be flogged once a fortnight for seven years.
Mole gave evidence as to their assaulting him, though they utterly denied doing so, but Mole's statement being backed up by several believers who had witnessed it, the judge declared both guilty, and sentenced them to the bastinado.
He, Lenoir, and Chivey, who certainly was not so deeply involved as his master, were sentenced to serve ten years each in the galleys.
He being clearly convicted of receiving bribes from prisoners, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and so retires from the scene.
Then those of us who had been sentenced to so many lashes were led down from the scaffold and placed upon horses, being stripped to the waist, and having by them, every man, an executioner armed with a whip.
But when he persevered in the confession of the Faith, he was brought before the judge, who sentenced him to be beheaded next day.
In the early ages of the Church notorious sinners, after being absolved, weresentenced to long public penances.
They had food and water and physical comfort, but they were exactly in the situation of men sentenced to prison for an unknown but enormous length of time.
They were apparently only sentenced to death by them.
The lawyer had advised him not to speak and the prisoner wassentenced to a term of thirty years.
Sentenced to thirty years in prison after one previous conviction for criminal assault.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sentenced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
