59 Metaphors for punishment

CHAPTER II WILDNEY "That punishment's the best to bear That follows soonest on the sin, And guilt's a game where losers fare Better than those who seem to win.

He said the punishment was a shamea shame; that he was the master of the boy, and no oneno, not his motherhad a right to touch him; that she might order him to be corrected, and that he would suffer the punishment, as he and Harry often had, but no one should lay a hand on his boy.

Formerly the punishment of the wooden horse was a degradation inflicted on private soldiers only; but Mr. Mills (whose genius could make even Pegasus look wooden, in whatever material) flies at higher game, and will be content with nothing short of a general.

My instructions are ready, in which you will find express orders, that Arnold is not to be hurt; but that he be permitted to escape, if it can be prevented only by killing him, as his public punishment is the only object in view.

In the earliest ages of the church, while religion was yet pure from secular advantages, the punishment of sinners was publick censure, and open penance; penalties inflicted merely by ecclesiastical authority, at a time when the church had yet no help from the civil power; while the hand of the magistrate lifted only the rod of persecution; and when governours were ready to afford a refuge to all those who fled from clerical authority.

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At this crisis he flung the boy from him with a "phew" of disgust, and said, "I give nothing for your word; but if ever you do bully in this way again, and I see or hear of it, your present punishment shall be a trifle to what I shall then administer.

My own experience as child and parent convinces me that an inexorable, though mild, physical punishment is the only remedy for the obstinacy of certain fractious child natures, in the years before reason operates, and for the assurance of necessary discipline in families.

For the detection and arrest of the guilty parties was my work, their punishment was the work of the senate.

The only corporal punishment that we inflict is a pat on the hand, which is very of great service in flagrant cases of misconduct.

In cases like this, punishment is a blessing, and impunity a burden."

On the other hand, punishment was the more prompt and rigorous according to the inferiority of position of the culprit.

But if the case is referred back, not for a new trial, but for further consideration, on the ground that the punishment was inadequateeither too severe, or not sufficiently soin this case, it is not necessary to repeat the trial.

Eric Williams and Charles Wildney, your punishment will be public expulsion, for which you will prepare this very evening.

Proud she may be, in the sense of respecting herself; but pride, in the sense of contemning others less gifted than herself, deserves the two lowest circles of a vulgar woman's Inferno, where the punishments are Small-pox and Bankruptcy.

Sentence was at once pronounced on fourteen of the sepoys, and the punishment was death.

" The greatest punishment which comes to Macbeth after the murder of Duncan is lack of sleep.

The Wandering Jew, if still on his rounds, should buy a machine; it will fit his case to a nicety; his punishment will become a habit; he will join an automobile club, go on an endurance contest, and, in the brief moments allowed him for rest and oiling up, will swap stories with the boys.

The punishments of the slave are imprisonment, stocks, &c.; when the lash is used, the number of stripes is limited to twenty-five.

She thinks Steno's greatest punishment will be "the blushes of his privacy.

His approval, his interest in a man, were the all-absorbing object, the all-sufficient reward; the one punishment feared was dismissal, always inflicted with courtesy and tact, from the honour and the joy of serving under him: Adoré de ses élèves, M. Dupanloup n'était pas toujours agréable à ces collaborateurs.

There was enough of gloom and solemnity in the one party to prove that the execution was not to be a farce, and enough merriment in the other to convince a beholder that the punishment was not capital.

Again, when a controversy about hell engaged public attention, and some otherwise orthodox theologians bethought themselves that eternal punishment was a horrible doctrine and then found that the evidence for it was not quite conclusive and were bold enough to say so, Leslie Stephen stepped in to point out that, if so, historical Christianity deserves all that its most virulent enemies have said about it in this respect.

Eternal punishment was a notion, which nothing could make him believe, and for which it would be useless to quote Scripture to him; for the doctrine (he said) darkened the moral character of God, and produced malignity in man.

Moses is notable for an almost fiery vehemence of character, and the punishment that was laid upon him was the outcome of a display of intemperate wrath.

59 Metaphors for  punishment