The directors sued the officers of the Commonwealth for trespass, and the Commonwealth refused the use of its jails to confine the persons arrested.
Colonels Coffin and Givins carried out their threat, and suedthe Speaker for damages for false imprisonment.
The Indians at lastsued for peace, and agreed to furnish a tribute of provisions.
The confederated caciques all sued for peace, except Behechio, who ruled the southwestern corner of the island.
While the English army were keeping the feast of John the Baptist, new messengers arrived from Balliol, who now sued for peace.
And it was curious to observe how much at heart the magnate had this same social recognition, how he sued for the favour of every lofty dignitary, of every capital letter in the social alphabet.
Rogers" was sued by Henry Ham, a bondservant, for his freedom.
Three years before, Rogers had sued in court to collect "a Bill Payable to him from one Richard Saunderson of North Carolina.
It shall be to his great trouble and torment That he hath left Reason, and sued his own folly, That thereby is fallen to wretched penury.
Some of the heirs got dissatisfied, and sued for their rights or a settlement; then I was sold with my child, a boy.
A worthy Quaker who was sued for debt in the King's Bench was horrified to find himself charged in the declaration with detaining his creditor's money by force and arms, contrary to the peace of our Lord the King, etc.
He then married a woman who was rich in money and in years, and was thereupon sued for breach of promise by another woman.
And then Sir Mador sued daily and long to have the queen's good grace.
And then he fled, and Sir Galahad sued fast after him.
But Sir Tor espied that the other knight fainted, and then he sued fast upon him, and doubled his strokes, and made him go to the earth on the one side.
He sued the Albany Evening Journal, edited by Thurlow Weed, and received four hundred dollars damage.
Cooper promptly sued The Tribune, and was awarded two hundred dollars.
Many of the newspapers throughout the state misrepresented his action, and he foolishly sued them for libel.
The foreign community in Japan has long since got over its state of panic in regard to the danger of suing and being sued in Japanese courts, and the possibility of being an inmate of a Japanese gaol.
In these courts foreigners sued and were sued, and crimes committed by and against foreigners were tried.
At length, the principal cacique of Tumbez sued for peace, and made some presents of gold and silver in token of submission.
Earnest they suedfor an auxiliar band, Which we had gladly granted, but that Jove By unpropitious tokens interfered.
Loud wail'd the hoary King; with lifted hands His head he smote, and, uttering doleful cries Of supplication, sued to his own son.
On 29th March they moved before Justice Grove and Baron Huddleston for judgment--that is, for power to compel Bradlaugh to pay the penalty sued for and the costs.
Plaintiff having amended statement as to date of voting, and Bradlaugh demurring that writ was void as being dated on the day of the voting sued upon, Justices Denman and Watkin Williams decided against him on the legal point.
And yet in the following year (November 1889), when Mrs Besant sued the Rev.
The broad ground of action was that Newdegate had maliciously "maintained" Clarke, having himself no interest in the ground of action, which was the penalty sued for, and being desirous only to make Bradlaugh bankrupt.
I doubt if there is, to-day, a State in this Union where a married woman can sue or be sued for slander of character, and until quite recently there was not one in which she could sue or be sued for injury of person.
The dentist sued the husband; his counsel brought the wife as witness; the judge ruled her off the stand, saying "a married woman cannot be a witness in matters of joint interest between herself and her husband.
They are a body corporate under the name of the Church Trustees of the parish in which they are appointed, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and power to sue and be sued in their corporate name.
If an incumbent transgresses in any of these respects he is liable to be sued for an ecclesiastical offence.
Later in 1946 a young Negro sued the Secretary of War and a Pittsburgh recruiting officer for refusing to enlist him.
The decision is very much as if a man who is sued for accusing another of 'stealing' should set up a defence that he meant 'stealing' hearts, for the word is sometimes used in that sense.
I understand one of the Rensselaers has been sued for money borrowed in a ferryboat to help him across a river under his own door, and for potatoes bought by his wife in the streets of Albany!
Your mother writes me that she has been sued for twenty-seven pairs of shoes furnished her by a shoemaker whom she never saw, or heard of, until she received the summons!
And still as she was sued for in mariage, she rendred like aunswere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
