This appears to be harsh treatment, but it must be remembered that the lash was at that time almost the only recognised method of punishment in the Navy, however trivial the offence might be; and Cook knew from experience how important it was to prevent the scurvy from getting foothold on board, and he already had determined to fight, by every means in his power, this dread scourge, almost his most dangerous foe.

So great was their avidity to bring us to punishment, so insatiable their thirst for drinking our blood.

Fulvius and Claudius were far from being agreed as to the punishment of the Campanian senators.

Thus punishment was inflicted on those also who were at Cales.

Punishment was inflicted upon the most guilty with rigour and despatch, the populace dispersed beyond all hope of return, no rage vented in fire and ruins upon the unoffending houses and walls.

Soldiers absent from their organization without a pass will be arrested and returned to their command for punishment.

Many culprits brought within our limits have been condemned to suffer death, the punishment due to that atrocious crime.

It belongs to the Executive not to suffer the executions under these decisions to transcend the great purpose for which punishment is necessary.

The violation of its revenue laws is an offense which all nations punish, the punishment of which gives no just cause of complaint to the power to which the offenders belong, provided it be extended to all equally.

Under the flag of the United States and the sanction of their papers the trade may be considered as entirely suppressed, and if any of our citizens are engaged in it under the flags and papers of other powers, it is only from a respect to the rights of those powers that these offenders are not seized and brought home to receive the punishment which the laws inflict.

He is more sensitive to rebuke and punishment than most dogs, and will nurse resentment to those who are unjust to him; not viciously, but with an almost human plaintiveness which demands an immediate reconciliation.

I answered haughtily to his questions, and he caused me to be whipped till the blood came: in punishment, as he said, of my disobedience.'

The sovereign is the soul of the political body; the officials, its limbs; reward and punishment, its nerves; law and equity, its reason.

The efforts of his friends were successful and in April he returned to the University, where a public admonition was the extent of his punishment, and he continued in receipt of his Christ's Hospital exhibition.

the punishment begins; in Part III.

the punishment reaches its climax.

It is true he was tired; but he was sorry he had done wrong, and he thought that if he read more than he was obliged to, his mother would see that he was penitent, and that he acquiesced in his punishment.

She said she was very glad he had submitted pleasantly to his punishment, and she gave him something wrapped up in a paper.

We always feared he would get off with a soft punishment.

They are, in his opinion, a gang of criminals for whom no punishment could be too severe, because they impose upon the public in general and Higgins in particular, by continuing in business as if they were in a position to let houses when, as a matter of fact, there are no houses for them to let.

Many had already done so, and as a punishment the assemblies of Maryland and Georgia were dismissed and the members sent home.

The Surprise at Trenton.%Lee crossed the Hudson and went to Morristown, where a just punishment for his disobedience speedily overtook him.

That within it there was to be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except in punishment for crime.

The new features are the definition of treason and the limitation of its punishment; the guarantee to every state of a republican form of government; the swearing of state officials to support the Federal Constitution; and the provision for amendment.

And now, since we are not only named fathers of all the people in common, but are in reality such, let us not enter into a discussion of all the fine points, lest we all incur ruin; for anybody could find much fault with Caesar himself so that he would seem to have been justly slain, or again might bring heavy charges against those that killed him, so that they would be thought to deserve punishment.