But waiving this at present, it must be owned in justice to the army, that those violences did not proceed so far among them as some have believed; nor ought the madness of a few to be laid at their doors.
When the overthrow began, doubtless sincerely reprobating the violences of the insurgents, he hounded on the princes in their work of massacre, Melanchthon chiming in.
But, unfortunately, they had in part been stimulated to these violences by strong drink, which had been given them by some of the more respectable loyalists of the town.
It is important, in the first place, to remember that hisviolences are not the violences of the hired rhetorician.
His virtues were better calculated for private than for public life; and by his want of penetration and firmness, he was ill fitted to extricate himself from those cabals and violences to which that age was so much addicted.
We have thrown together almost all the proceedings against heretics, though carried on during a course of three years, that we may be obliged as little as possible to return to such shocking violences and barbarities.
Yet The Nun has none of the artificial violences of the modern French school, which loves moral disease for its own sake.
The exaggerations of phrase, the violences of feeling, the broken apostrophes, give to Diderot's éloge an unpleasant tone of declamation.
These violences gave rise to schisms, some joining the old Ministers, and others the new.
The Romans had occupied the town; towards evening, Caesar ordered them to leave it, fearing the violences which the soldiers might commit on the inhabitants during the night.
As to the people, deprived of all rights, oppressed with debts, crushed with taxes, exposed to the violences of the great, their condition was little better than that of slaves.
The international financiers hate her because of the violences committed against the Jews.
All the violences against Germany were, until the day before yesterday, an effect of hatred; to-day they derive from dread.
All the violencesin Upper Silesia to prevent the plebiscite going in favour of Germany were not only tolerated but prepared far ahead.
This universal sympathy was not removed by the forcible capture of the Bastile, and the violences of the people on that occasion.
To satisfy the complaints of the latter, prosecutions have been instituted for the violences committed upon them.
At the same time, the Cathedine episode had filled him with a new disgust for the violences and brutalities to which the very intimacy of the marriage relation may lead.
The ineffectual efforts of La Fayette, and the violences occasioned by them, had prepared us for something still more serious.
These party violences are terrible; and I was happy to perceive that the reciprocal claims of duty and affection were not diminished by them, either in M.
These are the ostentatious violences of a missionary, who would fain save his enemy alive, where a grimmer purpose is glad to employ a more silent weapon and strike but once.
The dignity of Nature is all against these violences and robberies of art.
Passions, emotions, are always presented in bodily symbols, by means of the bodily acts and violences they inspire.
Nothing more serious has ever been written against the promoters of the sanguinaryviolences on the 17th of July.
Every day is ushered in and closed with theseviolences and disturbances.
To such a length have his passions and violences carried him, that all my family, my dependants, and even my friends and visitors, are persecuted with the strongest marks of his displeasure.
In short, the violences of the aumildar are so astonishing, that the people, on seeing the present situation, remember the loss of Hyder with regret.
The outrages and violences now committed are of that astonishing nature as were never known or heard of during the administration of the Circar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
