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Example sentences for "incendiarism"

Lexicographically close words:
incased; incautious; incautiously; incendia; incendiaries; incendiary; incendio; incense; incensed; incenses
  1. But he immediately joined the enemy again, and for a long time his cold-blooded murders, his plunder and incendiarism made him the terror of the whole region in the neighborhood of Albany.

  2. Aside from the cold-blooded murder and incendiarism involved, there was cowardice displayed of the most abject kind.

  3. If it was the duty of the Government of India to punish those who were guilty of incendiarism and murder, as I hold it was their duty, it was doubly their duty to punish officers who insulted and oppressed innocent people.

  4. The crown that committed the horrible murders and incendiarism contained no one community exclusively.

  5. His conception of non-co-operation did not involve rapine, plunder, incendiarism and all the concomitants of mass madness.

  6. It is the impunity which this unheard-of palsy of the governing strong hand so long ensured to them, which has fostered riot into rebellion, and rebellion into incendiarism and murder.

  7. The most critical part of the business of extinguishing fires and preventing incendiarism occurred at the Tribunal, which was stored with property worth many thousands of pounds.

  8. Captain Fisher, having occupied the lines, had a zone of anarchy, incendiarism and chaos, comprising the whole city, in the rear of his position.

  9. Assassination and incendiarism were the common instruments of this diabolical association of fanaticism and bigotry.

  10. Murder and incendiarism prevailed everywhere, and open revolt where there was any chance of even temporary success.

  11. Murder and outrage stalked abroad, and whatever were the wrongs of Ireland, incendiarism and assassination were not the means of redress upon which brave men could look unmoved.

  12. He saw that the work of incendiarism had been done efficiently; timbers had been well soaked with oil, and the match applied not in one spot but in scores of places.

  13. Such was the object of the carnage and incendiarism which marked the beginning of the campaign, as was frankly admitted by Herr Walter Bloem, adjutant to the Governor-General in Belgium (p.

  14. Even when a few houses only of a village have escaped incendiarism the inhabitants have returned thither and have resumed their customary labours.

  15. The offenders were rarely discovered, and the workers attributed the incendiarism to a mythical person whom they named "Swing.

  16. Some cases of incendiarism did really occur, however, and it was just as well that the city should be guarded, and the rougher element closely looked after.

  17. The cry of incendiarism was raised during the first days of the fire, and a good deal of alarm prevailed.

  18. Incendiarism was rampant and the greatest excitement filled the public mind.

  19. Beall, for piracy on the lakes, and of Kennedy, for incendiarism in New York, are still fresh in the recollection of our readers.

  20. The public are already well aware of the manner in which some of these acts of incendiarism terminated, most especially the attempt of Capt.

  21. The 6th day of July was one long to be remembered, as the first act of incendiarism was committed.

  22. That there is any incendiarism in this neighbourhood.

  23. If there had been a proper rural police, such a thing as incendiarism would never have been heard of!

  24. The exploits of Sherman in Mississippi gave him a "bad eminence," which he afterwards well sustained by the burning of Rome and Atlanta, the sack of Columbia, and his career of pillage and incendiarism in the Carolinas.

  25. As a punishment for their alleged crime of incendiarism and "hatred for the human race," they were covered with the skins of wild beasts and torn to pieces by the dogs in the circus, crucified by day, and burned as torches by night.

  26. A few Christians were tortured and compelled to confess themselves guilty of incendiarism and to give the names of others, and that led to the punishment of an "ingens multitudo" as Nero's scapegoats.

  27. On May 6th the lunatic asylum at Longue Pointe was burnt down with the loss of seventy lives, owing to the incendiarism of a patient.

  28. In the beginning of the incendiarism lighted torches thrown through the window began the sad work of destruction.

  29. The whole chart was a powerful moral object-lesson on the dangers of incendiarism and the evils of reckless disobedience.

  30. As elsewhere, the incendiarism was systematic.

  31. The bombardment was only a pretext for the wholesale expulsion of the inhabitants, which was followed by systematic pillage and incendiarism as soon as the ground was clear.

  32. The incendiarism started in the Station Square, and spread along the Boulevard de Tirlemont as far as the Tirlemont Gate.

  33. This scientific incendiarism was the regular sequel to the organised pillage.

  34. With a little encouragement he would, no doubt, declare that the accused had confided to him all his plans of incendiarism and murder.

  35. To allow himself to be accused of incendiarism and murder when he is innocent!

  36. Tacitus tells us that "those who confessed were first seized, and then on their evidence a huge multitude[35] were convicted, not so much on the charge of incendiarism as for their hatred to mankind.

  37. From the commencement of March the provincial papers held forth at the same time, speaking of incendiarism and pillage in Paris.

  38. The deceased delegate at war will be able to pass a review of his faithful followers at the hour of midnight; the watchword will be Incendiarism and assassination.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incendiarism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.