It is nevertheless untrue that he was burned by the Inquisition or stoned by the populace; but after his death he was burned in effigy, his remains having been secretly removed by his friends.

Lawyer Watson was not present on this occasion, and as soon as Patsy had left her Miss Merrick tore off the signatures and burned them, wrote "void" in bold letters across the face of the paper, and then, it being rendered of no value, she enclosed it in a large yellow envelope, sealed it, and that evening handed the envelope to Mr. Watson with the request that it be not opened until after her death.

The tail-lamp of the car burned inside, dimly lighting the place.

"But I wouldn't dance with a lot of half drunken men wearing revolvers, if they burned me at the stake for refusing.

He burned to the ground the mansion and all that was connected with it, the family escaping to the house of a cousin.

Paul crushed the paper in the hollow of his hand and threw it into the fire, where it burned away.

To her farm, to my farm, Loathing we returned; Pale beneath a gallow's arm The planet Saturn burned.

The fire, which burned for several days, devastated the city.

Appreciating that Ghent stood in imminent danger of meeting the terrible fate of its sister cities, Aerschot and Louvain, sacked and burned for far less cause, Mr. Van Hee hurriedly found the burgomaster and urged him to go along instantly to German headquarters.

They then drove all of the inhabitants out, shot some of the men as examples, took the gold from the branch of the National Bank and burned the business section.

Termonde was burned for much the same reason as Louvain.

Five of these houses were burned to the ground, and two others farther out broken all to pieces and burned.

Five of these houses were burned to the ground, and two others farther out broken all to pieces and burned.

We buried him and burned the aeroplane.

A wounded British private told this story: "We lay in the trench, my friend and I, and when the order to fire came we shot, and shot till our rifles burned up.

"Towns and villages whose inhabitants take part in the combat or who fire upon us from ambush will be burned down and the guilty shot at once.

The Amphion's men were dreadfully burned and scalded and had marks on their faces and bodies which resembled splashes of acid.

Now the hips burned red in the tangled thickets and the hews waxed black in the hedgerows, the stubble lay all crisp and naked to the sky, and the green leaves were fast turning russet and brown.

One day, called to France to explain the lucky accident of the commissariat having burned down with his account-books inside, he left his wife, a Choctaw Comptesse, behind. Arrived at court, his excuses were accepted, and that tract granted him where afterwards stood Belles Demoiselles Plantation.

'But if it should be burned in the meantime?' 'I should be very sorry, now that I know it.'

'I do believe that if I were to think of every particular tree that composed a forest, it would take away all wish to see it burned.'

Some reported that they had perished in the woods; others that they had been burned in a prairie, which not a few believed; while another class averred that the locksmith, driven to desperation, had first destroyed his family, and then himself.

If he seemed to have missed a real childhood,its follies, its innocent pleasures, its winsome affections,so later, the temptations that would naturally beset a career so extraordinary fell harmlessly away from him, for a passion for knowledge burned within him, consuming all ignoble motives and keeping this young scholar, in friar's robes, in marvelous singleness of heart, in the midst of a flattering and luxurious court.

Then, when I had covered it over again, I collected all the papers which I had not burned on the previous day, and stored them away in my inside pockets.

The bridge at Mori had been burned, but we heard of another some two miles farther down, which, if destroyed, could be more easily mended, and as the reputed position taken up by the enemy could be turned from the right bank of the river, it was determined to repair it.

It burnt him so bad.

The Yankees burnt up Mt. Vernon, Arkansas.

Our house got burnt up and we lost his honorable discharge.

"The Yankees burnt Boss Henry's father's fine house, his gin, his grist mill, and fifty or sixty bales of cotton and took several fine horses.

I tore the pages from the binding and burnt them; I tore the binding from Spencer and burnt it; and I put my treasure in the covers of The Old Helmet.

I tore the pages from the binding and burnt them; I tore the binding from Spencer and burnt it; and I put my treasure in the covers of The Old Helmet.

I read it again; I read the last pages several times, and then I burnt it and breathed freely.

As the vessel jogged along, with a good part of her deck showing above the waves, her air ventilators were open and the burnt gas of the engine was exhausted right out into the open; the air was as pure as in the cabin of an ordinary ship.

When floating on the surface she looked not unlike an ordinary sailing craft; two long spars, each about thirty feet above the deck, forming the letter Athese were the pipes that admitted fresh air and discharged the burnt gases of the gasoline motor and the vitiated air that had been breathed.

The second night the candles burnt blue and dreadful yells were heard outside the church.

"When this has burnt up," I said firmly, "I shall turn in," and my companion watched me lazily as I moved off into the surrounding shadows.

They were the bitterest kind of whigsmen who had seen their houses burnt over their heads, and who could have killed and eaten all the tories they should meet.

The part of the wood in which he was known to be concealed, was surrounded and fired, till the wretch was literally burnt from his den, and, in an attempt to escape from one flaming thicket to another, taken alive, although not unwounded.

Jane Hatfield had always been a republican in sentiment, and she loved Lester more than ever when she heard he had dropped toryism as something that would have burnt his fingers if he had held on to it," replied Morton.

They were broken and routed, and their tents and marquees burnt.

There the effigy was hung, and then taken down and burnt.

"They should have caught the man himself, and burnt him instead of a stuffed figure," said Higgins.

The Bishop's old palace was treated as unceremoniously as his name, being burnt in some of the civil wars.

"The priests were busied in offering burnt-offerings."Id.

In 1789 a woman was burnt at the stake for coining.

They disinfected houses and burnt rags and even purdah women were not allowed to die in bosom of family.

All those with guns will fire at the walls save the Border State company who will reserve their fire till the gate is opened or burnt down.

"Come on, you village curs, you landless cripples, you wifeless sons of burnt fathers!

His skin tingled and he burnt hotly from head to foot.

But the flame had burnt itself out.