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Example sentences for "unlawfully"

Lexicographically close words:
unlashed; unlatch; unlatched; unlawful; unlawfull; unlawfulness; unlay; unlearn; unlearned; unleash
  1. And the divine Scripture points out how, without unlawfully desiring any of them, he came to have four women, of whom he begat twelve sons and one daughter; for he had come to take only one.

  2. The Drapers have unlawfully solde these tenements and garden plots, and the poore be wronged.

  3. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.

  4. One who interlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously.

  5. One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title.

  6. One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

  7. One who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously.

  8. Beyond was Fort Garry, unlawfully seized by Riel, and now unlawfully invested by his troops.

  9. You are accused of unlawfully committing acts of espionage against the imperial defences of Heligoland," announced the secretary.

  10. There was something piquant and, as it were, unlawfully enticing to him in the fact that she was a real artist's model.

  11. What could be more insane than to tell a man that he owned his wife, and punish him when someone unlawfully took her away from him?

  12. Whereupon the men of Kent immediately submitted to him; as did also the inhabitants of Surrey, and Sussex, and Essex; who had been unlawfully kept from their allegiance by his relatives.

  13. These missives trouble no one who does not unlawfully meddle with them, and it can hardly be claimed that they offer any greater temptations to the dishonestly inclined than any other class of money-letters.

  14. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness, and his countenance doth behold the upright," Psal.

  15. And the context showeth that the meaning must be one of these two; either, q.

  16. Therefore they may the better give so much the more to the needy, and to other charitable uses.

  17. If you would not have more, why do you inflict it on yourselves?

  18. Master Roger Nowell and Master Thomas Potts, you are aware, are unlawfully detained prisoners by Mistress Alice Nutter.

  19. The result was that this grand jury brought in an indictment only against my client as defaulter as treasurer of the Agricultural College, and for unlawfully using and converting to his own use the funds of that institution.

  20. Clearly the offence of the President was in the order “unlawfully issued,” and this was complete at the moment of its delivery.

  21. The Article alleges that the order was “unlawfully issued,” and nobody doubts that its delivery was proved; but this is not enough, according to the Senator.

  22. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, for 'the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage.

  23. The first anti-slavery society took the name of "The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage.

  24. These are sufficient to show, that the Africans whom you despise, whom you inhumanly treat as brutes, and whom you unlawfully subject to slavery, are equally capable of improvement with yourselves.

  25. Constitution of the Maryland Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes and others unlawfully held in Bondage.

  26. The master of the murdered man commenced legal process against the actors in this tragedy for the recovery of the value of the chattel, as one would institute a suit for a horse or an ox that had been unlawfully killed.

  27. They are as follows: Whoever shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any girl under the age of sixteen years shall be imprisoned not exceeding fifteen years.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unlawfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.