I am pleased they did not know that we had some people mad enough to wish to inflict similar wounds upon our own country.

His late opponents had decided to take advantage of Carthy's absence, and inflict chastisement prompt and merciless upon the "youthful stranger.

It was an antiquated system which sought to inflict punishment for every mortal thingit was the lex talionis of the Old Testament, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Her eyes were opened now in her new-found happiness, and she foresaw the crushing blow that happiness must inflict on the oldest, kindest, dearest of friends.

We think very lightly of these little social outrages in the battle of life, and yet I doubt if one human being can inflict a much deeper injury on another than that which deprives the victim of all power of enjoyment, all belief in good, all hope for the future, all tender memories of the past.

In this book, compiled of articles thrown off upon the spur of the moment, with so much to amuse, to awaken, to suggest, and to inspire, there is hardly a sentence which can arouse antagonism or inflict pain.

One excessively blunt, and calculated to bruise and crush the tissues, will inflict a more serious wound than one of equal length that is pointed and sharp.

It must be said for her that she did not go out of her way to inflict these concussions upon the brains of spectators, since she always had in her closet one evening dress and one street dress, sufficiently approximating the prevailing style to pass unnoticed.

It may be as well to mention that the sharp-pointed leaves have been known to inflict serious injury.

Soon after quitting the house, he joined me in my way home, and I spoke to him again about enlisting, but his blood was still hothe would abide no reasonhe could only swear of the revenge he would inflict upon Winlaw.

And should we find any, our orders were to inflict punishment by whipping the slave until he informed who gave them to him, or how they came by them.

Yet, such is the hardening nature of such scenes, that from this kind of commiseration for the suffering slave, I became so blunted that I could not only witness their stripes with composure, but myself inflict them, and that without remorse.

This physician said, he went every day to attend to it himself, in order that he might use those restoratives, which would inflict the greatest possible pain.

they can never believe that slaveholders inflict cruelties upon their slaves!

The evils to which the slave is always exposed, often take place in their very worst degree and form; and where all of them do not take place, still the slave is deprived of his natural rights, degraded as a human being, and exposed to the danger of passing into the hands of a master who may inflict upon him all the hardship and injuries which inhumanity and avarice may suggest."

He must inflict, either personally or by deputy, the sentence of the court, whether it be fine, imprisonment, or death.

He began: "It has been the principle of my life, never to inflict a wilful injury upon any thing that lives; I need not express my regret, when I find myself obliged to be the promulgator of a criminal charge.

Having parted from my travelling companion at New Orleans, one of my first endeavours was, by the aid of physiognomy, to discover some passenger on whom it might suit me to inflict my society.

I shall, therefore, only inflict a few short observations to refresh his memory.

But if we kill them, others, who have no experience, will be set to slaughter us, and will by their bungling inflict great sufferings upon us.

A State which disregarded the differently conceived notions of neighbouring countries, and wished to make the idea of universal peace the guiding rule for its policy, would only inflict a fatal injury on itself, and become the prey of more resolute and warlike neighbours.

In deciding for war or peace, the next important consideration is whether the question under discussion is sufficiently vital for the power of the State to justify the determination to fight; whether the inevitable dangers and miseries of a war do not threaten to inflict greater injury on the interests of the State than the disadvantages which, according to human calculation, must result if war is not declared.

I am sure that you will not take any step calculated to inflict pain on meat least an act of selfishness on your part would be a new and shocking experience for me.

You have no right to inflict me on him.

I will inflict as hard a death upon you as upon the others; yea, there is no living thing I have in the world which I will spare, if I be not obeyed."

Sentences (inflect forms if necessary; for example, use the past tense, participle, or infinitive of a verb instead of its present tense): It was into law.

render curved &c adj.; flex, bend, curve, incurvate^; inflect; deflect, scatter [Phys.]; refract (light) 420; crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate^; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle.

They make no more use of the pronoun ye, or of the verbal termination eth, than do people of fashion; nor do they, in using the pronoun thou, or their improper nominative thee, ordinarily inflect with st or est the preterits or the auxiliaries of the accompanying verbs, as is done in the solemn style.

Dr. Johnson, indeed, made the preterit subjunctive like the indicative; and this may have induced the author to change his plan, and inflect this part of the verb with st.

What confusion the practice must make in the language, especially when we come to inflect this part of the verb with st or est, has already been suggested.

In direct contradiction to himself, he proceeds to inflect the verb as follows: "I work,

I have before shown, that several of the "best ancient writers" did not inflect the verb were, but wrote "thou were;" and, surely, "the analogy of formation," requires that the subjunctive be not inflected.

Our poets use the possessive case much more frequently than prose writers, and occasionally inflect words that are altogether invariable in prose; as, "Eager that last great chance of war he waits, Where either's fall determines both their fates.

13.If need is ever an auxiliary, the essential difference between an auxiliary and a principal verb, will very well account for the otherwise puzzling fact, that good writers sometimes inflect this verb, and sometimes do not; and that they sometimes use to after it, and sometimes do not.

mood, that good writers sometimes inflect the verb, and sometimes do not, and that they sometimes use to after it, and sometimes do not, how may be accounted for three authorized forms of expression, with respect to the verb.

It confounds things known to be different,mere stress with elevation or depression,and may lead to the supposition, that to accent a syllable, is to inflect the voice upon it.