He had been detained by Lucy until certain her note was received, when she permitted him to quit her side.
He was traced down to a period within a twelvemonth of that of the search, and was probably to be found in England, still wearing the livery of the king.
He knew that should complaint be made of him at Rome, his corruption and cruelties, his extortions and the unjustifiable slaughter he had caused would all be brought against him.
They, therefore, passed an unjustifiable address to the King, praying him to dismiss the five peers from his Council, even before the impeachments were heard.
They drove him into an unjustifiable war against his will.
Not a single great ruler in history can be absolved by a judge who fixes his eye inexorably on one or two unjustifiable acts.
He saw that Hastings had been guilty of some most unjustifiable acts.
The Duke of Devonshire, who had been treated with such unjustifiable harshness, had lately died, and had been succeeded by his son, who was still a boy.
No transaction in our annals is more unjustifiable than this.
He cast in his lot with his father, and took, while still a boy, a deep part in the mostunjustifiable and unpopular measures that had been adopted since the reign of James the Second.
Mrs. Errington, in the tone of one protesting against an utterly unjustifiable offence.
It only becomes dangerous under a monarch whose policy lacks sense of proportion and power to resist one-sided and constitutionally unjustifiable influences.
Being dissatisfied at not having his unjustifiable demands allowed, he suddenly turned patriot, so that if he lost, the people might congratulate themselves at having an advocate for once sitting in the speaker's chair of the house of commons.
As to the indemnity, he was entirely opposed to it; the passing of such bills was one of the most unjustifiable practices of parliament.
The first remonstrance of the British cabinet against the unjustifiable encroachments of the first consul related to his conduct with reference to Switzerland.
He asked, "Was not this, on the part of the French, an unjustifiable interference in the internal affairs of another country?
The British residents and travellers then at Florence were strongly indignant at so cowardly and unjustifiable an attack on their young countryman.
No division took place on the clause giving three members to certain of the middle-sized counties, although it was denounced as monstrous and unjustifiable on any principle of fairness or common equity.
It is their unjustifiable method of beginning the war, and the dirty brutal tricks by which they sought to win it, which have created enduring mistrust and animosity against them.
But in justice to ourselves and to the French during the Napoleonic wars, I think it was grossly impolitic to engender vindictiveness by unjustifiable acrimony.
This incident, occurring in several cases, was the immediate cause of Nelson's taking a step which both then and since has been blamed as an unjustifiable stratagem.
Some of his friends had thought, erroneously in the opinion of the author, that the flag was an unjustifiable ruse de guerre, which made him specially sensitive on this point.
This unjustifiable attack was resented by the grand jury in a written protest.
The deputy sheriff made many threats and tried to intimidate the brethren at Nauvoo, but failing in this, when questioned, he admitted that the course the governor had taken was unjustifiable and illegal.
Thousands of peaceful natives were treated with unjustifiable ferocity.
In his eagerness to carry out this laudable design, the Quarterly Reviewer cannot even state the history of the doctrine of natural selection without an oblique and entirely unjustifiable attempt to depreciate Mr. Darwin.
But falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
Hence, he confidently hoped to retire to the mountains before catching sight of a soldier of the regular army or of the militia,--by no means an unjustifiable expectation.
