The princes then signed a draft of the treaty and swore to execute it faithfully on the cross of St. Laud.

Within his palm I saw lying a tiny little gold cross, about an inch long, enameled in red, while in the center was a circular miniature of a kneeling saint, an elegant and beautifully executed little trinket which might have adorned a lady's bracelet.

This he so successfully executed, that twenty-nine men of Maynard's small number were either killed or wounded by the first broadside, and one of the sloops for a time disabled.

His card imports that "orders [to wit, for brawn] from any part of England, Scotland, or Ireland, will be duly executed," etc.

Frederick executed this most difficult task admirably, and at 6 P.M. I signed the Treaty of Tientsin....

Indeed, Pfister is, by some, thought to have printed before 1460; and his finely executed Latin Bible, in cast type, was for many years regarded as the first.

Those who had taken part in the national war were brought before a court-martial and summarily executed.

Their owners generally withdrew them from public justice; so that they, who would have been publicly executed elsewhere, were often kept alive by their masters, and were found punished again and again for repeating their faults.

Ay and, ever to the ending, Cricket chirps at need, Executes the hand's intending, Promptly, perfectly,indeed Saves the singer from defeat With her chirrup low and sweet.

Because her sentences against evil works are not executed speedily, therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil.

"This has been a neatly executed job," he remarked; "none of your clumsy hacking with a chopper or a saw.

After the canons which established the celibacy of the clergy were, by the zealous endeavours of Archbishop Anselm, more rigorously executed in England, the ecclesiastics gave, almost universally, and avowedly, in to the use of concubinage; and the court of Rome, which had no interest in prohibiting this practice, made very slight opposition to it.

A retreat, skilfully executed, is a creditable thing; and any step appears preferable to exposing the dear beings in the other room to the dangers of a night assault.

The articles they prepare, especially if they be of the "fancy" kind, are often ornamented with handsomely executed emblems, underwritten with appropriate mottoes.

The continual bubbling and vibration is very interesting in its effects, and the noise it makes is quite peculiar, not unlike a subdued hiss or a badly executed stage-whisper.

When the PREPARATORY commands consists of more than one part its elements are arranged as follows: (1) For movements to be executed successively by the subdivisions or elements of an organization: (a) Description of the movement; (b) how executed, or on what element executed.

In the Life of WALLER, Johnson gives a distinct and animated narrative of publick affairs in that variegated period, with strong yet nice touches of character; and having a fair opportunity to display his political principles, does it with an unqualified manly confidence, and satisfies his readers how nobly he might have executed a Tory History of his country.

They told her that if it could be proved that any one, however high his rank, had blasphemed God and the king, he could legally be executed, and that his property would revert to the Crown.

Though the witchery scenes are in general but poorly executed, and possess little novelty to those who have read the Arabian Nights Entertainments, there is, occasionally, some fine description, and striking combination.

The second was a wave of payroll robberies obviously executed by a skilled and experienced gang of bandits.

Of the others, Satan in chains, the General Resurrection, and a delicately executed Tree of Jesse are the best.

When a criminal was justly executed, was not the execution justice to him who suffered, and humanity to the body of the people at large?

It is vigorously but somewhat coarsely executed; and I am inclined to suppose, is not quite correctly exhibited.

The fact is notorious, that medical inspection of recruits, on enlistment, has been, as a rule, most imperfectly executed; and the city of Washington is constantly thronged with invalids awaiting their discharge-papers, who at the time of their enlistment were physically unfit for service.

His Majesty expressed a desire to have the literary biography of this country ably executed, and proposed to Dr. Johnson to undertake it.