Our English ideas of slavery drawn from our knowledge of the varied sufferings endured by the thousands who are annually exported from the western shores of Africa, are opposite to those entertained in the east even by the victims themselves.
The aspect of the country in the immediate vicinity of our path has been well described by one of the most lamented victims to Affghan ingratitude and treachery.
How much time must pass and how many victims be sacrificed before we come to our senses on the great radiator question?
I have written “the richest and most simple minded couple,” because centuries of self-seeking have developed in these beasts an especial aptitude for spotting possible victims at a glance.
Some victims of this bad treatment, thirsting for revenge, struck on the happy thought of inaugurating an “Aztec” society.
The victims may have reached maturity or even middle age, but remain always children to these social policemen, to be reproved and instructed in and out of season.
When two celebrities combine in a final duo, facing the public and not each other, they give the impression of victims whom an unseen inquisitor is torturing.
Footnote 104: One of thevictims of the Revolution.
It is enough that I should have had to live through that mortal struggle of the two luckless victims with those filthy brutes.
It is said that they murdered twenty thousand victims a year on the altars of their gods.
It was at the summits of these mounds, on a sacrificial stone, before all the people who could get in view, that the victims of their religious frenzy were slain.
Weary of slaughter, the Burgundians now sit down for a moment to rest, but, finding the presence of so many corpses distasteful, they fling seven hundred victims down the steps, those who are merely wounded being killed by the fall.
The eldest Pandav, who had marched on without heeding the rest, now explained to his companion how Draupadi sinned through excessive love for her husbands, and that his fallen brothers were victims of pride, vanity, and falsehood.
As the victims resist all efforts to seize them, the king in person goes forth to capture them.
When this animal died at last, the grateful Feridoun made a mace of one of its big bones, and armed with that weapon, defeated Zohak, who was chained to a mountain, where he was tortured by visions of his victims for a thousand years.
Dante, passing on, discovers many other victims encased in the ice, and is so chilled by a glacial breeze that his face muscles stiffen.
By mistake the love-potion is brought, and, as Iseult graciously dips her lips in the cup before handing it to her entertainer, it comes to pass both partake of the magic draught, and thus become victims of a passion which naught can cure.
As the poets move along the rim, Dante's shadow, cast upon the roaring flames, causes such wonder to the victims undergoing purification that one of them inquires who he may be.
Beneath the constant bites of these reptiles, the robber-victims turn to ashes, only to rise phoenix-like a moment later and undergo renewed torments.
He is about to ask Virgil whence this wind proceeds, when one of the ice-encrusted victims implores him to remove its hard mask from his face.
In the depths of the tenth pit, into which he now peers, Dante distinguishes victims of all manners of diseases, and learns these are the alchemists and forgers undergoing the penalty of their sins.
He next discovers that one and all of thesevictims have their eyelids sewn so tightly together with wire that passage is left only for streams of penitential tears.
Among thesevictims Dante recognizes Mahomet, who, wondering that a living man should visit hell, points out Dante to his fellow-shades.
He shortly after received tidings of the death of his two sons, whom he had left in the government of western Africa, and who had fallen victims to the jealous suspicions of the Caliph.
Rushing with his men between the king and his pursuers, they checked the latter in their career, and gave time for their monarch to escape; but they fell victims to their loyalty.
The brutal eagerness to shed blood, which seems inherent in human nature, was awakened; and woe to the victims when that eagerness is quickened by religious hate.
The gifted are not likely to fall victims to positive suggestion but many of them develop negativism to a conspicuous degree.
They will have proper intellectual training, and will at no time idle their time away, be practiced in habits of laziness, or become the victims of boredom.
If this had been done his admissions would, of course, have been as valueless as those of the victims in trials for witchcraft.
The two physicians, like all victimsof accidents, the objects of really touching solicitude, were assigned seats against the warmest wall, dividing the cabin from the engine-room.
The horrors of the cruellest judgment could not exceed those amid which the victims of the shipwreck had perished.
One of the witnesses said that Pett had been much interested in reading some book about the methods of the Thugs, and had talked in the servants' quarters of how they strangled their victims with shawls of the finest silk.
Moreover, the principal lord, named Cuaucmichin, introduced human sacrifice, and made victims of some of the most highly esteemed persons in the community.
This unfortunate city seems to have been regarded by the kings of the valley as the proper place to attack whenever they required human victims for sacrifice.
Considering the number of the victims sacrificed, it is probably more correct to suppose that several sacrificers were occupied at the same time.
One half of the whole Cakchiquel population are estimated to have fallen victims to this pestilence, including the two monarchs, who were succeeded by Belehe Qat and Cahi Imox.
The rites of the Inquisition were as cruel as those they replaced, but the number of victims in America was comparatively small.
On this occasion Nezahualpilli was urged by Montezuma to join him in making war upon the Tlascaltecs, for the purpose of obtaining victims for sacrifice.
Among the victimsof the swamp fever, were Major Larrabee, and Lieutenant-Colonel Emory, of the Fifth Wisconsin regiment; I had been indebted to them for many a meal and draught of spirits.
His victimswere not pierced, or crushed, or mangled, but their deaths were not less terrible, because more lingering.
The business was not a desirable one; for hot hospital rooms were now absolutely reeking, and many of the victims were asleep.
Attendants were constantly bearing into different wards fresh victims from the operating-rooms, where the bloody work would still go on for hours.
There was not a single Southern State unrepresented among the bleeding victims of Chickamauga.
The ghosts of former victims done to death amid every circumstance of horror within that den arose not to appal her.
The lives of two women wrecked, a score of victims despoiled; Berenice herself weary, yet brilliant, turning to others for recompense for her lost youth.
On the other hand, Boyle deems his heroines to be corrupt and his heroes "the victims of one devouring passion, often in a state of incipient madness, alternately raging and melancholy.
In this play we have two victims of melancholy, Almira and Cardenes; the former is cured by falling in love with the disguised John Antonio; the latter is Paulo's patient.
So Martha declares that she will be a "food doctor," and later on she helps her father in saving several victims of strong drink.
The Lesser Mysteries opened with a sacrifice to Demeter and Persephone, a portion of the victims offered being reserved for the members of the sacred families of Eumolpus and Keryce.
The Furies, armed with relentless scourges and flaming torches, drove the unhappy victimsincessantly to and fro, never letting them rest for a moment.
Yes, Juno and the powers on high That left their Afric to its doom, Have led the victors' progeny As victims to Jugurtha's tomb.
See, at your shrine, with victims white, Prays Venus and Anchises' heir!
Be sure to pay The victims and the fane you owe; Your bard a humbler lamb will slay.
Yes, thousands of yet untenanted graves yawn for the future victims of these mechanical devices.
Sympathy was quick in her breast for all the diverse victims of mischance; a shade of it, that was not indulgence, but knowledge of the roots of evil, for malefactors and for the fool.
The source of her popularity was in the liberal kindliness of spirit with which she acted on all occasions, more especially towards those she considered the victims of bad government and oppressive laws.
They were the victims of an accident, which would be repaired as soon as the fact of their father's wealth had got around.
I fancy his family believe themselves victims of it.
The geese were the victims of this imaginative effort of Mr. Curtenty's.
He investigated the cases very carefully, in order that those who had committed crimes should not be released on account of the victims of blackmail, nor yet the latter be ruined on account of the former.
Indeed, the funds that had been confiscated by government order during the period of Tiberius and Gaius he gave back either to the victims themselves, if they still survived, or otherwise to their children.
Everyone knows that if murder is a sin, it is always a sin, whoever are the victims murdered, just like the sin of adultery, theft, or any other.
If I should have to suffer from the change, I should be consoled by thinking that the executioners of that day were the victims of the previous time, and the hope of something better would help us to endure the worst.
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