So long as the criminals remainunpunished it will be a black and indelible stigma and an ugly stain on the race harbouring in its midst the perpetrators of this unheard-of sin.
Crimes went unpunished because committed under the guise of military operations.
In a preceding letter, sent by way of Boston, and dated 16 February, he says that he could not suffer Perrot to go unpunished without injury to the regal authority, which he is resolved to defend to the last drop of his blood.
But Jonadab assured him that only Amnon had been murdered in revenge for hisunpunished outrage, and a rush of people along the road, among whom the princes were visible riding on their mules, confirmed his words.
Joab was a murderer, and went unpunished; but was not he too anunpunished murderer?
Let us talk of something else--Do you believe there are many unpunished criminals at large among us, some of whom may even be our intimate friends?
Don't you think that the other one, the unpunished one, would bring a little better balance into these unequal human conditions if he paid a penalty in the form of a fine?
The Landgrave Philip, and John, the new Elector of Saxony, distinguished themselves by their clemency in dismissing unpunished to their homes, after the victory, a number of the insurgent peasants.
But so long as he remains unpunished and Emperor, no one should refuse him obedience.
He says that he has a much greater and more powerful god; and it is wonderful that the earth does not burst asunder under him, or that our god lets him go about unpunished when he dares to talk such things.
The cardinal introduced also the law, that no man should go unpunished who appeared with arms in the merchant-town, excepting the twelve men who were in attendancce on the king.
As a Frenchman, he assured the Spaniard that he shuddered when he thought of so execrable a deed, and that it appeared to him that God would not leave it unpunished (Ibid.
Part of the Moros are defeated on the coast of Panay, but they meet with enough success to embolden them to make further raids; these go unpunished by the Spaniards, and thus the islands are being devastated and ruined.
Mérimée has not escaped unpunished for thus yielding up his talent to the service of literary bloodthirstiness.
Where no imagination is required, the English are a kindly race who find it easier and more congenial to forget than to inflict punishment even when it is deserved, even when the criminal unpunished becomes a model for future crime.
Already the Kaiser has one party claiming indulgence for him as the creature of his own general staff, while another would leave him unpunished and even untried for fear that apparent persecution might make a martyr of him.
Socrates replies, that if they are both criminal they are both miserable, but that the unpunished is the more miserable of the two.
And similarly if a man has an enemy, he will desire not to punish him, but that he shall go unpunished and become worse and worse, taking care only that he does no injury to himself.
Revenge was no Christian virtue, but to let the evil done to him by the Melchites go unpunishedwhen the opportunity offered for crushing them was more than he could bring himself to.
I have been permitted to trifle with love unpunished so often, that at last I have learnt to under-estimate its power.
Every worshiper of self and of nature confirms himself against divine providence when he sees so many impious in the world and so many of their impieties and how some glory in them, yet sees the impious go unpunished by God.
When he sees such numbers of wicked in the world and so many of their impieties and how some glory in them, and sees the men go unpunished by God.
So they are; but God doth not altogether let such things go unpunished in this life.
That he should escape unpunished is the worst thing that can happen to him.
Euthyphron stands forward as the champion of the Gods, determined not to leave unpunished the man who has committed impiety, let him be who he may.
If this man is not Smerdis the son of Cyrus, but the person whom I suspect that he is, he must not go unpunished for associating with you, and exercising dominion over the Persians.
Such a series of blunders could not go unpunished in the presence of a general like Cyrus.
It is no doubt possible for a man to prefer the lower course, and in this case we say he is deserving of punishment, and if he remains unpunished we say that it is unjust.
Brigandage, if committed by Moslems upon Christians, was not looked upon as a serious crime, and went unpunished until Western nations began to interfere in Turkish affairs.
In proportion to the magnitude of this evil, is the value of the relief which removes it, and the superior misery of the unpunished wrong-doer who continues to live under it.
Sokrates proceeds next to prove--That the wrong-doer who remains unpunished is more miserable than if he were punished.
The man who does wrong is more miserable than he who suffers wrong: but the most miserable of all is he who does wrong and then remains unpunished for it.
This matter did not long go unpunished with the traitors: the Roman army was not far off, by whom the city, which lay in a plain, was taken at the first onset.
But the pagans did not escape unpunished while they acted this wickedness; a great number of them being killed during this massacre of their enemies.
We find in the rules laid down by the greatest English judges, who have been the brightest of mankind: We are to look upon it as more beneficial that many guilty persons should escape unpunished than one innocent should suffer.
Were such sin as yours to go unpunished we could expect no blessing on our arms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unpunished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
