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The aristocratic party declined to give him what he considered to be his due, socially speaking; so he declared for the bourgeoisie, glossed over his disappointment with the name of independence, and failed to realize that his opinions condemned him to remain a president of a court of the first instance for the rest of his life.
"If it is true, Lowington will not leave us behind, especially if he finds we are not as gentle as lambs." "Perhaps not; but as the matter stands, we are already condemned to stay on board during the rest of the season." "I know that; but Lowington will let us off." "He will be more likely to do so if we behave well." "Not he! Don't you believe it."
"I am delighted to hear it, Mr. Wooster. I may be prejudiced, but to my mind that woman is a genius." "Absolutely!" I said. "She has been with me seven years, and in all that time I have not known her guilty of a single lapse from the highest standard. Except once, in the winter of 1917, when a purist might have condemned a certain mayonnaise of hers as lacking in creaminess.
These things being settled, and having received a sausage and a pie for breakfast, they pronounced a sentence, in which they condemned the sausage to be cooked and the pie to be cut up. All these things make me tremble for my son.
The mockery of a trial came to a conclusion, and the governor, who had taken upon himself the office of judge and inquisitor-general, found the count and his daughter guilty of the crimes with which they were charged, and condemned them both to death.
The insane produce nothing, nor can those children, condemned to the immobility of an education which tends to develop their innocent manifestations of unsatisfied desires into mania, produce anything either for themselves or others. We, however, suppose that we are developing the imagination of children by making them accept fantastic things as realities.
It is his doom to spend all the hours of darkness in the spot which he stained with innocent blood, and to feel the hot stream hot as when it first gushed upon his hand incorporating itself with his spiritual substance. Thus his horrible crime is ever fresh within him. Two other wretches are condemned to walk arm in arm.
He not only condemned him to die a traitor's death, he added a callous message, which still rouses the indignation of every generous soul, that he should "not use many words on the scaffold."
And since the Parliament hath condemned them, and desired the King that they might be stopped, all the kingdom do abominate them. St.
The labour of the mines was so dreadful that each unfortunate on whom the lot fell considered it equivalent to his death-warrant. And that there was ground for this belief is proved by the fact that not more than one in six of the Indians condemned to the mines survived the treatment there inflicted. Each mitayo, or conscript, received nominally two shillings a day.
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