2229 examples of outraged in sentences

In Enniskillen two boys under twelve years of age were convicted of stealing one pint of Indian-meal cooked into "stirabout," and Chief Justice Blackburn vindicated the outraged law by transporting them for seven years.

Her mood of outraged virtue was now suddenly thrown into the background by a phase of open coquetry.

The feelings of the prisoner ought not to be thus outraged.

His client's liberty had been outraged by the stupid blunders of the prosecution.

All Christendom had been watching the strife; all Christendom was outraged at its close.

Richard, outraged by the rumour that Henry proposed to give Aquitaine to John, turned suddenly to Philip, while the people crowded round wondering, ungirt his sword, and stretched out his hands to do homage to him for all his father's lands from the Channel to the Pyrenees.

Outraged by this ruthless if hypothetical murder of an equally hypothetical spouse, she groped vainly for adequate words.

"You wouldn't marYou wouldn't what?" demanded the mother, outraged and incredulous.

I had visions of three laboriously acquired pips being torn from my sleeves by outraged authorities.

Our more favored brethren in New York felt a deep sympathy for their outraged countrymen in Cincinnati; a sympathy equaled only by their indignation at the cause of such demand.

He had made her an officer of the company and paid her a salary of six thousand dollars a year, but she went on remembering his engagements, writing his letters and soothing the outraged feelings of his clients just as she had done in humbler days.

Even in that first outraged, panic-stricken moment Katie Jones knew she had never known a man like that.

" Sylvia was frozen to the spot by her outraged indignation that any one should dare speak to her thus.

The girl faced her aunt outraged.

Then Charlie faced about on his shocked and outraged sister.

Is this District, then, a fit place for our deliberations, whose feelings are outraged with impunity with transactions like this? Suppose, sir, that mournful and degrading spectacle was at this moment exhibited under the windows of our chamber, do you think the Senate could deliberate, could continue with that composure and attention which I see around me?

"Glory, honor, and immortality," will be the reward of those who had recognized and cheered their Lord through his outraged poor.

Thirdly, that common decency be no longer outraged by any girl above fifteen receiving corporal punishment.[BZ]

He had made up his mind that it would be for the good of the town for these undertakings to be in the hands of the municipality, and in spite of the Town Council "old gang" and outraged gas and water shareholders, who felt they were being fraudulently despoiled of certain prospective advantages, he carried his point.

the Parliament jealous of the encroachments on its privileges; the citizens outraged by the lavish magnificence, and indignant at the insolent assumption of the nobility; and the people irritated and impoverished by the constant exactions to which they were subjected in order to supply the exigencies of the state.

Outraged in every feeling, and disappointed in every hope, she became in her turn anxious to effect a reconciliation with the King, even upon terms less favourable than those to which she had hitherto aspired.

The gentle Marguerite, however, refused to comply with a command which revolted her better nature; and even consented, at the instigation of Marie de Medicis and Isabellawhose dignity and virtue were alike outraged by the dissolute excesses of the favouriteto entreat her husband to dismiss Puylaurens from his service.

Then, resentfully, and with a return of his mood of dignity outraged and pride trampled upon: "But he had no right to put me up thereor let me climb up there."

She faced Arden Wilmotnot a lady, but a woman, a flaming torch of outraged human feeling.

Once more her heart hardened in the pitiless fury of outraged mercy.

2229 examples of  outraged  in sentences