89 examples of evil deeds in sentences

This island is well-known as the scene of his evil deeds, and no merchant or sailor who lands upon it cares to stray far away from his comrades."

OSWALD Nonothe thing stands clear of mystery; (As you have said) he coins himself the slander With which he taints her ear;for a plain reason; He dreads the presence of a virtuous man Like you; he knows your eye would search his heart, Your justice stamp upon his evil deeds The punishment they merit.

"The sign of retribution has appeared, For sorrow is the fruit of evil deeds.

There are two angels, that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds.

Father of easy words and evil deeds, give me the letter back!" Yussuf Dakmar appealed to me as presumably responsible for Jeremy.

Lord Beresford, having no good word at his disposal, said he did not second the evil deeds or improprieties of noble lords.

He lived his life much as he walked the streets of Boston,not quite gracefully, nor yet statelily, but with quick, strong, solid step, with sagacious eyes wide open, and thrusting his broad shoulders a little forward, as if butting away the throng of evil deeds around him, and scattering whole atmospheres of unwholesome cloud.

The lady explained to him the nature of the place, and how the rivulet was the Lethe of Paradise;Lethe, where he stood, but called Eunoe higher up; the drink of the one doing away all remembrance of evil deeds, and that of the other restoring all remembrance of good.

They both saw that it might be the forerunner of divine means to bring their evil deeds to light; and, under this apprehension, their taciturnity and mutual discontent, if not growing hatred, continued, broken only by occasional growls and curses, and the ejaculations forced out by the inevitable circumstances of their connection.

(1) The individual evil deeds of the empirical character point to an original fault of the intelligible character, a propensity to evil dwelling in man and not further deducible.

And I was formed within a light That kindled in the womb of night, Of loathsome withered weeds And fate looked on and fanned the flame, But freed me from the touch of blame, Of all my evil deeds.

The monks told of the sad fate of the wicked in the life to come, and industriously filled the gentry with apprehension, so that they tried to make up for their evil deeds by rich gifts to the monasteries.

And when He calls one man righteous and another wicked, He means very much more than that one has done so many good deeds, and another so many evil deeds; "righteous" and "wicked" describe what each is in himself, what each will decisively reveal himself to be, when present tendencies have fully worked themselves out.

Though I understood clearly before this that they were that sort of persons,for there is none of your interests that I fail to notice,still I pretended not to know it, thinking that they might become better if they believed they were not observed in some of their evil deeds and had the fear that if they ever presumed too far they might be punished for the guilt of which they were conscious.

We are shown how his evil deeds affect others, how the great law of retribution involves the innocent in his downfall.

At no season is he absent from our woods, and he is an industrious consumer of the larger insects and grubs, atoning in this way for some of his evil deeds.

Wherefore must The evil deeds and guilt reciprocal Of our two fathers twine like serpents round us?

The prince answered: "Let that unworthy young man be freed, on condition of giving up all claim to the throne and leading a private life; and let him devote himself to pious meditation, which is the purifier of evil deeds."

Why, in spite of all the exhortations to which the commercial classes listen every Sunday, do they next morning recommence their evil deeds?

He had so surrounded himself and his crimes with mystery that it would take more than a country squire's slowly moving brain to draw aside that weird and ghostlike curtain which hid his evil deeds.

"Our enemy on earth," he writes, "has prepared a thick woods and a dangerous ground full of pitfalls, wherein to devise his evil deeds and to hide himself from attack, as do wild beasts and venomous serpents.

His Lordship came near and leant close to her ear and said, "Thou hast turned thy charms to ill account, thou stirrest me to evil deeds.

Fitzroy thought they had no idea of a future state, because, among other reasons not given, 'the evil spirit torments them in this world, if they do wrong, by storms, hail, snow, &c.' Why the evil spirit should punish evil deeds is not evident.

That Dupont had it in his power farther to injure the widow and child of the deceased he did not believe; he rather thought that his extreme desire to obtain them proceeded from a consciousness that they betrayed some of his own evil deeds, yet he could not feel easy till they were either regained, or he knew that they were destroyed.

Since society rests upon honesty, we must punish criminals to reduce them to impotence, and above all to strike them with terror, and halt others on the threshold of evil deeds.

89 examples of  evil deeds  in sentences