They have evenwantonly cut down the fruit-trees, and filled the wells with filth.
Many had fled to the towns and villages, and a good many had been wantonly murdered.
It was not the only occasion on which birds, cats and pet dogs were wantonly and cruelly destroyed to vex their owners.
We supposed they had fled to the towns; but every now and then we came across the bodies of some of them, and it is certain that hundreds had been wantonly destroyed by their cruel enemies.
The investigation of the latest atrocities showed that the Armenians had been wantonly tortured and murdered, and that indescribable atrocities had been perpetrated.
Our written laws condemn cruelty to a horse or cat or dog; our innate sense of justice would compel us to punish the man who should wantonly torture even a rat by roasting it alive.
These suspicions were soon justified by the indiscreet confession of Maximus himself; and he wantonly provoked the hatred of his reluctant bride, who was still conscious that she was descended from a line of emperors.
And in the succeeding summer, of a night when he lay awake and listened to the birds, shining images came wantonly to him.
Yellow sheaves from rich Ceres the cottage had crowned, Green rushes were strewed on the floor; The casements sweet woodbine crept wantonly round, And decked the sod-seats at the door.
As little doubt can there be that if Britain were wantonly attacked and engaged in a struggle for existence, each of these great colonies would be ready with such assistance as it could give.
When a mind is filled with important and true ideas and sees the actual relations of things, it cannot relish pictures of the world which wantonly misrepresent it.
It stands unmoved and flowers wantonly into the air, transmuting into unexpected and richer forms the substances it sucks from the soil.
It was accepted instantly as a welcome modification of the tradition,--as an amplification not to be wantonly disregarded by any architect hereafter called upon to design a triumphal arch.
Something had happened; and the idea stirred him to wrath--as when a child is wantonly frightened or a dumb creature misused.
And wherefore yet delayeth the reprieve Of Love, that doth not willingly afflict Its children, neither wantonly aggrieve?
He is no vain dare-devil wantonly bent on making himself talked of; he goes his dangerous way in the course of his calling.
And the boy who delights in torturing frogs or insects, or robbing birds'-nests, or dogging cattle and hogs wantonly and cruelly, can awaken no hope of an honorable after life.
And among them Bellew noticed one in particular,--a roguish curl that glowed in the sun with a coppery light, and peeped at him wantonly above her ear.
And surely, in all the world, there had never bloomed a more tantalizing, more wantonly provoking rose than this!
June, 1829, the building was wantonly set on fire by some fisherman who had sailed up the Don.
Rather, do they not wantonly add to the means of monopolists?
Think of this, ye pampered minions of wealth, who gorge turtle at a guinea a pound, who beastialize yourselves with wine at a shilling a glass, and who wantonly devour a guinea's worth of fruit after finishing a sumptuous dinner!
The censure applied to those who wantonly draw sectarian questions into politics, and set Catholic against Protestant, is just.
It appeared to him that Justice Wilson had wantonly made himself a participant in this attack, lending the weight of his judicial influence to his enemies.
And so as to the judgment of society, a just indignation would be felt against a writer who brought forward wantonly the weaknesses of a great man, though the whole world knew that they existed.
Since I could not foresee when I wrote, that I should have been wantonly slandered, I only wonder that I have anticipated the charge as fully as will be seen in the following extracts.
Wantonly I held between two fingers fine My gem above the sparkling brine, Only to see it gleam Across the stream.
