Do we say find or fined

find 51434 occurrences

"Wonder if we can't find some huckleberries hereabouts," suggested Roy.

"Scared to death, I redoubled my efforts to find a way out.

I done find dis writin', too.

Maybe we can find them, after all.

"Don't say that," said Mr. Parker, coming into the room at that moment, "we'll leave no stone unturned to find her.

"Let's see if we can find which way that fellow went.

"Where under the sun did you find them, Beppo?" exclaimed the same woman who had so cruelly ill-treated The Wren the time the boys rescued her.

If anyone doubts this let him study the mind of the modern Irish peasant; let him get beneath its surface and inside its guardian ring of shrinking reserve; there he will find the same material exactly as composed the mind of the tenth century biographers of Declan and Mochuda.

More than once we find a flagstone turned into a raft to bear a missionary band beyond the seas!

Such disagreements as occur are only what one would expect to find in documents dealing with times so remote.

Return now and you will find it marked (consecrated) on the south side of your own cell.

" There was an iron shovel for drawing out the bread but the brother could not find it on the instant.

Canst find no better amusement than quarrelling with a dog of San Bernardo!

If there are too many who love to be tempted to forget their trusts, by a well-managed venality, there are a few who find a greater satisfaction in being thought beyond its influence.

"The cheeses are well enough where they find themselves; if thou dislikest their company thou hast the alternative of the water.

"One year, thou shall find the vineyard dripping liquors precious as diamonds, while, the next, barrenness shall make it its seat.

Resorting to a happy subterfuge, by means of one of his sleight-of-hand expedients, he succeeded in transferring the whole of that portion of the spectators who still found amusement in his jugglery, to the other end of the vessel, where they established themselves among the anchors, ready as ever to swallow an aliment, that seems to find an unextinguishable appetite for its reception among the vulgar.

He who reads our present legend with the eyes that we could wish, will find in its moral the illustration of this truth; for, if it is our intention to delineate some of the wrongs that spring from the abuses of the privileged and powerful, we hope equally to show how completely they fall short of their object, by failing to confer that exclusive happiness which is the goal that all struggle to attain.

We might get rid of the cynic and the egotist, and find in his stead a common-place man.

To have produced works of genius, and to find them neglected or treated with scorn, is one of the heaviest trials of human patience.

The using an elliptical mode of expression (such as he did not use to find in Guides to the English Tongue)

There is no abuse or corruption that does not there find a jesuitical palliation or a bare-faced vindication.

2. We find traces of this usage in the New Testament.

we find the Amelekites marching an army into Israel, and sweeping everything before themand this in about eighteen years after they had all been "UTTERLY DESTROYED!"

As I could not shake her off, and we were both bound for the same place, she continued walking up my back, and in this manner we gained the top of the steps and the gravelled walk, only to find that thin streams of water from subterranean fountains were shooting up through the gravel, making it useless to try to escape.

fined 284 occurrences

Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances of each case.

And many Dissenters were put into prison, and others fined and spoiled of their goods.

The young leaves of the peach are sometimes used in cookery, from their agreeable flavour; and a liqueur resembling the fine noyeau of Martinique may be made by steeping them in brandy sweetened with sugar and fined with milk: gin may also be flavoured in the same manner.

They were found guilty; Maxwell, Verplanck, and Stevenson were fined two hundred dollars each, and several others less.

The representatives of our ancestors had an opinion very different: they fined and imprisoned their members; on great provocation, they disabled them for ever; and this power of pronouncing perpetual disability is maintained by Selden himself.

After breakfast, we surveyed the old castle, in the pit or dungeon of which Lochbuy had some years before taken upon him to imprison several persons; and though he had been fined in a considerable sum by the Court of Justiciary, he was so little affected by it, that while we were examining the dungeon, he said to me, with a smile, 'Your father knows something of this;' (alluding to my father's having sat as one of the judges on his trial.)

They, when the Assize was ended, sent for us, to be brought before them, at their Inn [at Aylesbury]; and fined us, as I remember, 6s.

She, like Geminius, had a personal grudge against him, for in his sixth consulship he had fined her four drachmas for ill-conduct.

I've no doubt one or two were fined in the very next race, for the official didn't seem to like it.

A planter observed, "if I command my butler to stand for half an hour on the parlor floor, and it can be proved that I designed it as a punishment, I may be fined for it."

He was bound over to court, tried, and acquittednot even fined!"

The relations of the murderer are all fined very heavily, and the judgment often extends to the whole village, near which the crime had been perpetrated; yet seldom a day passes but some daring robbery is committed, accompanied by the most wanton and savage cruelty; the unhappy victim of the plunderer being frequently left in the public roads in a most shocking state of mutilation.

This provided that any man who acted seditiously (that is, interfered with the execution of a law of Congress) or spoke or wrote seditiously (that is, abused the President, or Congress, or any member of the Federal government) should be tried, and if found guilty, be fined and imprisoned.

This law was used, and used vigorously, and Republican editors all over the country were fined and sometimes imprisoned.

They knew me well enough there, for I had been their correspondent from Crete, and the journal had once been fined £100 for one of my letters, and once confiscated for another.

When, however, the day came on which they were to incur the stated penalties, they took the oath, either as a result of the human trait according to which many persons utter promises and threats more easily than they put anything into execution, or else because they were going to be fined to no purpose, without helping the commonwealth at all by their obstinacy.

In fact they invoked curses and proclaimed death as the penalty upon any man who should propose or support such a measure, and furthermore they fined the present malcontents directly.

A Jerseyman, who had expressed a wish that the wad of a cannon, fired as a salute to the President, had hit him on the rear bulge of his breeches, was fined $100.

In those days laws were made to protect the oaks from being felled or injured, and a man who cut down a tree under the shadow of which thirty hogs could stand was fined three pounds.

STRAFFORD Arrival of Wentworth in IrelandHis methods and theoryDissolves parliamentGoes to ConnaughtGalway jury fined and imprisonedHis ecclesiastical policyHis Irish armyReturn to EnglandAttainder, trial, and death.

So he fined the headman for troubling him with false information and went away.

In 1784 two "stirrers-up of sedition" had been fined and imprisoned, and an adherent of the Virginian government, writing from Kentucky, mentioned that one of the worst effects of the Indian inroads was to confine the settlers to the stations, which were hot-beds of sedition and discord, besides excuses for indolence and rags.

The judge fined Kasheed twenty-five dollars, and heKasheedaccused Sardi of being a Turk and they had a big row right there in court.

Any person selling ardent spirits to an Indian, without a permit in writing from the Overseer, from some agent of theirs, or from a respectable physician, may be fined not more than fifty dollars, on conviction; and it shall be the duty of the Overseer to give information for prosecuting such offenders.

If any Indian or other person shall cut or take away any wood, timber, or other property, on any lands belonging to the proprietors or members, which is not set off; or if any person not a proprietor or member, shall do the same on lands that have been set off, or commit any other trespass, they shall be fined not over $200, or imprisoned not over two years.

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