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If I should, I shall try to cure him once for all, by stringing him up, not bodily, but in such a way as shall gibbet his memory in terrorem. It lies between Bernard, Waterhouse, and Jonathan Sewall. The first, they say, has not wit enough to write anything; the second swears off; and the third must plead guilty or not guilty as soon as I see him.
The Baptist missionaries declared that among the negroes who were shot and hanged in terrorem were peaceable subjects, respectable members of their own native congregations, for whose character they could vouch; they added that the gravity of the situation had been exaggerated by private enmity and jealousy of their work and creed.
"England," says the New York Herald, "cannot afford to go to war with us, for six hundred millions' worth of American stock is owned by British subjects, which, in event of hostilities, would be confiscated; and we now call upon the Companies not to take it off their hands on any terms. Let its forfeiture be held over England as a weapon in terrorem.
The writ was, however, certainly no dead letter, and served also in terrorem to reduce stubborn offenders. Indeed Archbishop Bancroft in 1605 called it "the chiefest temporal strength of ecclesiastical jurisdiction."
He wished Callista no harm, but, if a Christian must be found and held up in terrorem, he would rather it was a person like her, without connections and home, than the member of any decent family of Sicca, whose fair fame would be compromised by a catastrophe.
The other vessel lay a wreck, with her masts gone, and as it were in terrorem, staring us in the face. We felt the most pinching hunger; we had no fuel after the second day, except what we pulled down from the bulkheads of the cabin. We amused ourselves below, making a suit of sails for the vessel, and drinking hot water to repel the cold.
It is she who manages the undignified but eminently successful trickery of the marriage negotiations. It is she who evades committing herself irrevocably to the Huguenots or to the Prince of Orange. It is she who preserves Mary's restoration as a possibility, to be held in terrorem over Scotland after publishing her accusers' evidence against her.
He said that he was prepared, any day the King permitted him, to traverse the four provinces, and hold his enemies in terrorem with five hundred men. And he was the very worthy to do it. He complained bitterly that three of his followers had been shot by Lizarraga.
"Serve where you please, you have no title to intrude on us," said M'Intyre, "or" and he lifted his cane in terrorem, though without the idea of touching the old man. But Ochiltree's courage was roused by the insult. "Haud down your switch, Captain M'Intyre!
Martin was the most forward of all, and, after preaching and class-meeting there was a pretty full attendance at both took the minister home with him. Ever since that time, the preachers have been entertained at his house. READER! did you ever have a visit from that dreaded functionary that rod in pickle, held in terrorem over the heads of the whole note-paying fraternity, yclepted a notary?
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