Reproach is, when cast at a man, as if he wasstoning to death with stones.
Having nothing living to stone at the moment, he is discovered by Mr. Datchery in the unholy office of stoning the dead, through the railings of the churchyard.
Unhappy, because a hideous small boy was stoning it through the railings, and had already lamed it in one leg, and was much excited by the benevolent sportsmanlike purpose of breaking its other three legs, and bringing it down.
Words HAS arisen as to tradesmen, but dirty shoes on fresh hearth- stoning was attributable, and no wish for a commission on your orders.
Deputy in the air, start into the moonlight, as vultures might gather in the desert, and instantly fall to stoning him and one another.
It is curious that an early Christian tradition pointed to this site as the place of stoning of Stephen, the proto-martyr.
Thus the House of Stoning was a recognized place of crucifixion.
Paul tells how, after the stoning at Lystra, he was caught up into Paradise and saw unutterable things.
For goodness' sake Polly, set down and finish stoning 'em raisins.
She was furbishing up the lace on the dress now, and Polly was seated by the little table stoning the raisins for the Christmas pudding, and gazing with admiration at her sister all the while.
Jesus shielded her from stoning by the power of his personality and his consummate skill in handling men.
The community quarantined the lepers in waste places by stoning them when they crossed bounds.
From beating they go on to killing, and stoning is a specially savage form of killing.
That is always true; and it is also ever true that he who begins with 'I go, sir, and goes not, is in a fair way to end with stoning the prophets.
Vitellius does not see how the stoning of blasphemers indorses a man whom he dislikes.
Binding and stoning and killing in his zeal for an usurper of the robes of Aaron!
But when the Ulemas were met, And the thing heard, they doubted not; But sentenced him, as the law is, To die by stoning on the spot.
Finally, however, public indignation was aroused by so many people coming to harm through her arts; and the very next day had been fixed upon to wreak a fearful vengeance on her, by stoning her to death.
What young man helped in the stoningof St[=e]´phen?
This car permits instant discharge through an opening in the floor into a receiving tank suspended from the ceiling below and connected with the stoning apparatus.
At that time there were no stoning or separating machines; and as a bag of the ordinary green Jamaica coffee contained from three to five pounds of stones and sticks, it was necessary to hand-pick the coffee after it was roasted.
Suddenly a man of genius, Paul, violently anti-Christian, enters on the scene, holding the clothes of the men who are stoning Stephen.
Here we may return to the narrative called The Acts of the Apostles, which we left at the point where the stoning of Stephen was followed by the introduction of Paul.
This was done; and Gaius, after administering a brief reproof to the Aetolians for stoning Thoas, departed with his colleague to Acarnania, without any more being said about hostages.
He ended by calling upon the Aetolians, not only to hoot Thoas down if he tried to speak, but to join with one accord in stoning him.
I tell you to quitstoning frogs, and you shall quit.
This boy was screaming with fear; and John perceived that he was the boy who had been stoning frogs.
When Thomas, and the other two, got near enough, they saw he was stoning frogs.
Thus for once the whole multitude were convinced that the stoningsystem for violating the commandments was abolished.
When Jesus begins to promulgate his Gospel, the stoning system is all broken up; see his admirable sermon on the mount.
Near each town in ancient Palestine were two cemeteries; in one of them were buried those criminals who had been executed by beheading or strangling; in the other were interred those who had been put to death by stoning or burning.
The stoningof Stephen as a blasphemer by the Jews has been explained as an irregular outbreak of fanatical priests, a sort of mob violence.
Death by stoning was accomplished in the following manner: The culprit was taken to some lofty hill or eminence, made to undress completely, if a man, and was then precipitated violently to the ground beneath.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you would not!
In stoning adulterers both men and women shall be buried to the level of the chest and the stones shall be of medium size.
The penalty for adultery committed with an unmarried woman is, according to the letter of the law, stoning to death of both adulterers.
