520 examples of libel in sentences

A printed paper was also delivered to the members, entitled, 'considerations on the embargo,' which enumerated many dangerous consequences likely to be produced by an embargo on provisions, and suggested that it was no better than a wicked scheme for private profit, with other reflections, for which the paper was deemed a libel, and the author committed to prison.

Nor is this scandalous libel written with more confidence and insolence than it is dispersed.

I beg leave to move, therefore, that the house do censure this paper as "a malicious and scandalous libel, highly and injuriously reflecting upon a just and wise act of his majesty's government, and also upon the proceedings of both houses of senate; and tending to create jealousies in the minds of the people."

Sir Robert WALPOLE then spoke to this effect:Sir, whether the question be proper or not, it seems very unnecessary to debate; because, however it be answered, it cannot be of great importance: the man has already confessed himself the author of the libel, and may, therefore, be punished without farther examination.

But let the honourable gentleman recollect, that the chief excellence of raillery is politeness, to which he has surely paid little regard, in supposing that what has been unanimously condemned as a libel, has one of those who censured it for its author.

Having thus cleared myself, sir, from this aspersion, I declare it as my opinion, that every gentleman in the house can safely purge himself in the same manner; for I cannot conceive that any of them can have written a libel like this.

Sir William YONGE then spoke to this effect:Sir, I am pleased with finding that the malice and indecency of this libel, has raised in the house a just resentment, and that the wretch, who, with a confidence so steady, and such appearance of satisfaction in his countenance, confesses, or rather proclaims himself the author, is treated as he deserves.

The printer of the daily news is surely the proper object of your indignation, who inserted this libel in his paper, without the fondness of an author, and without the temptation of a bribe; a bribe, by the help of which it is usual to circulate scurrility.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL then spoke to the following effect:Sir, whence so much tenderness can arise for an offender of this kind, I am at a loss to discover, nor am I able to conceive any argument that can be produced for exempting from punishment the printer of a paper, which has been already determined, by the vote of the house, to be a scandalous libel, tending to promote sedition.

It was objected to, for the same reason as the question about the author's being in the gallery, because the answer might tend to accuse himself; and he being withdrawn, a debate of the same nature ensued, and the question being put whether he should be asked, if he be the person that printed the daily paper shown to him, which paper the house the day before resolved to contain a malicious and scandalous libel, etc.

I've a good mind to sue you for libel and shut up your shop.

"What is it, Joe?" "Mother," he said, "that fellow Marrin was in threatening to sue me for libel.

THE WINTER OFFENSIVE N.B.Having regard to the eccentricities of the Law of Libel it must be distinctly understood that the following does not refer to the distinguished officer, Lieut.

If nought else could atone For waggish libel, I swear on bible, I would have spared him for thy sake alone, Man Friday!

This was indignantly censored as a libel, but he excused himself on the plea that "evil" was the only possible rhyme to be found for "weevil," and declared that his very last intention had been to be personal or to cast the least reflection on the lovable disposition of Mnemosyne, so we forgave him with a caution.

But now, now, when all of them, from the Queen downwards, have declared that this charge has been a libel, when even the miscreants themselves have told against themselves, when the very judge has gone back from the word in which he was so confident, shall my mother,and my mother only,think that I am a wretched, miserable, nameless outcast, with a poor nameless, fatherless baby?

In 1756 he was made editor of the "Critical Review," a post which resulted in a fine of £100 and three months' imprisonment for a libel on Admiral Knowles.

An action for libel, however it may be decided, has at least the one inevitable result of perpetuating it.

'Tis a libel, I assure you," returned Mr. Morris, this time laughing outright with the amusement he could no longer conceal.

LIBELS, actions for them, iii. 64; dead, on the, iii. 15; England and America, in, i. 116, n. 1; Fox's Libel Bill, iii. 16, n. 1; juries, judges of the law, iii. 16, n. 1; refuse to convict, i. 116, n. 1; pulpit, from the, iii. 58; severe law against libels, i. 124, n. 1. LIBERTY, all boys love it, iii. 383; clamours for it, i. 131, n. 1; iii. 201, n, 1; conscience, of, ii. 249; iv.

Ruth McAneny Loud, Agnes Adams Wales & Eileen Evans (A); 1Apr74; R577189. R577190. Handbook of libel.

After that he was permitted to take what he wanted, and "the author" was informed of his libel on the infantile stomach.

He was responsible for certain wrongs committed by her after marriage, such as libel and slander, and judgment could be recovered against him.

'One free-shooting case, one thundering libel case, and a bank smash.

The Tribal Heralda thin weekly, with a patent insideconnects the red nose and the breakdown with an innuendo which, to the outsider, is clumsy libel.

520 examples of  libel  in sentences