4076 examples of execution in sentences

A physician is notat least, ought not to bean executioner; and a sentence of death on his face is as bad as a warrant for execution signed by the Governor.

Such is design, while it is yet at a distance from execution.

I soon found that it is too late to look for instruments, when the work calls for execution, and that whatever abilities I had brought to my task, with those I must finally perform it.

A moment after, they were proceeding to put this plan in execution.

This law was instantly put in execution, and the two trespassers were thrown into the sea.

Three sailors and a soldier took on themselves this cruel execution: we turned our faces aside, and wept tears of blood over the fate of these unhappy men.

We shall not have the presumption to lay down plans, to propose systems, to enforce such or such means for putting them in execution.

It would especially be highly important, that the regulations for the government of the slaves, should be founded on mildness and humanity, that prudent and enlightened persons should superintend the execution of them, and have the necessary authority to prevent abuses, and to secure to the slave the protection of the law.

"He died in the execution of his duty.

All the idlers of the town are here, and among them many a rascal who has been, through the processes, and comes again to listen and possibly learn a dodge by which to delay the execution of judgment.

In that case, I have a letter, which authorizes me to delay the execution until I can communicate directly with the commander-in-chief.

Finally he produced his masterpiece of comparisonthe French peasant, the German officer, the attempted bribe, the execution.

I cannot myself believe that this abominable scheme is intended for execution, but it has nevertheless created much alarm in timid minds, and has occasioned in part the defection of the servants I have just mentioned.

I have been informed, by a gentleman who saw the Queen pass in her way to execution, that the short white bed gown and the cap which she wore were discoloured by smoke, and that her whole appearance seemed to have been intended, if possible, to degrade her in the eyes of the multitude.

The execution of the decree is confided to the Committee of Inspection.

Into his mouth, as he walks about his dungeon, impatiently waiting to be led out to execution, Victor Hugo has put the aristocratic view of the Revolution.

Cimourdain, true to his temperament, insists on his instant execution.

In the second volume, Guido, servile and false, is followed by Caponsacchi, as noble alike in conception and execution as anything that Mr. Browning has ever achieved.

Then the plot broke out into execution, being no more than to serenade some young ladies, near whose apartments they then were.

Confederations upon a Printed Sheet intitled, The Speech of Lord Russel to the Sheriffs: Together with the Paper delivered by him to them at the place of execution, on July 1683.

Accordingly we find Mrs. Rowe discover a taste for painting; she attempted to carry her taste into execution, when she had hardly steadiness of hand sufficient to guide the pencil.

However, this would seem to indicate the presence of the one we sought, although so late a supper would render our task more difficult of execution.

" Mrs. Crull and Overtop at once approved of this plan, and no time was lost in putting it into execution.

[T.S.]] I have another project in my head, which ought to be put in execution, in order to make us freethinkers:

"Before leaving you, madam," said he, "I wish to repeat that only your sex has saved you from summary execution.

4076 examples of  execution  in sentences