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Example sentences for "outrages"

Lexicographically close words:
outputs; outrage; outraged; outrageous; outrageously; outraging; outragious; outragiously; outran; outranged
  1. His innumerable outrages in the Netherlandes have inforced the Flemynges to those termes which nowe they stande at.

  2. However palpable and grievous the outrages have been upon you, your only remedy for injuries done, must be in and through the courts of justice.

  3. However palpable and grievous the outrages have been upon you, your only remedy for injuries done must be in and through the courts of justice.

  4. I am fully persuaded that the eccentricity of the religious opinions and practices of the Mormons is at the bottom of the outrages committed against them.

  5. You cannot make a case of invasion or insurrection of the outrages committed upon your persons or property in Jackson County.

  6. Or an Impartial Narrative of the Murders Committed by the Indians there, and the sufferings * * * under the Rebellious outrages of Mr. Nath.

  7. They saw in them only expensive "mousetraps," for whose bait they were to pay, while they were sure that the shrewd Indians would continue their outrages without coming dangerously near such easily avoided snares.

  8. I bore the diminution of my riches without any outrages of sorrow, or pusillanimity of dejection.

  9. A passionate man, upon the review of his day, will have very few gratifications to offer to his pride, when he has considered how his outrages were caused, why they were borne, and in what they are likely to end at last.

  10. Coercion is directly contrary to the fundamental laws of his happiness and his true growth, and therefore he naturally and properly dislikes and disapproves of it, and of the individual who outrages justice by using it.

  11. We shudder now as we read of the outrages practised on helpless children and on the insane half a century ago not by the heathen, but by earnest, conscientious Christians.

  12. Through the outrages committed in May and June, the Convention had lost its legitimacy; through the maneuvers of July and August it recovered the semblance of it.

  13. Up to this time the art of governing has simply consisted in the art of stripping and subduing the masses for the benefit of the few, and legislation, the mode of reducing these outrages to a system.

  14. I quite admit that in these days of wars, of terrible massacres, of barbarism and of outrages of which even African savages would not be guilty, one is apt to become unduly nervous.

  15. Hudson, of the Southern Presbyterian University at Shanghai, brought the records of many outrages back with him on his return to America.

  16. Familiar as I was with the offences of individual Japanese in the country, it seemed impossible that outrages could be carried on systematically by the Japanese Army under the direction of its officers.

  17. In my judgment such outrages were not numerous, and were limited to exceptional parties of troops.

  18. The outrages were allowed to pass unpunished and unheeded.

  19. Any one can stand his own misfortunes; but when I read in the papers all about the rascalities and outrages going on I realize what a creature the human animal is.

  20. The members of a slaveholding church become insensible to the grossest outrages upon the better feelings of slaves, and they habitually commit acts, without a blush, which, one should think, would pale the cheek of a demon.

  21. But slavery outrages every principle of justice: therefore God must be opposed to slavery.

  22. Such outrages were common during the progress of these extraordinary scenes, and all kinds of depredations were committed.

  23. These are outrages which would put monarchy to the blush, and from which the most despotic tyrants of the dark ages would turn away with shame and disgust.

  24. Pryer, who is just from Far West, relating the outrages there committed daily.

  25. Their outrages are beyond all description.

  26. Their outrages are beyond all descriptions.

  27. I deeply regret, gentlemen, (knowing as I do, the vigilance and perseverance of Colonel Wight in the cause of freedom and rights of man) that I could not even be a soldier under his command in quelling the hellish outrages I have witnessed.

  28. I am fully persuaded," he remarks, "that the eccentricity of the religious opinions and practices of the Mormons is at the bottom of the outrages committed against them.

  29. It was the outrages committed by these men and their commands, and the Kansas "Red Legs" that led to the equally savage reprisals on the people of Kansas.

  30. By these outrages the brethren were obliged, most of them, to live in wagons or tents.

  31. Fifthly, all these inhuman outrages and crimes go unpunished, and are unnoticed by you, sir, and by all the authorities of the state.

  32. But when such criticism is made, the rank injustice, the destruction of property and the outrages committed upon the persons of many of the members of the Church, by the Jackson county mob, should also be remembered.

  33. They applied to the Emperor for protection against the outrages of his general; but Wallenstein had no sooner felt himself absolute in the army, than he threw off his obedience to his sovereign.

  34. It was not difficult, therefore, for the Administrator to gain the concurrence of men in whose minds the rememberance of these outrages was still recent.

  35. Duke of Pomerania, a feeble and superannuated prince, had been long tired out by the outrages committed by the latter within his territories; but too weak to resist, he had contented himself with murmurs.

  36. These outrages were inflicted upon the subjects of a prince who had never injured the Emperor, and whom, moreover, he was at the very time inciting to take up arms against the King of Sweden.

  37. And if anyone dies of hunger, and if anyone insults and outrages the little girl, is that good?

  38. In other words, detention of the Confederate prisoners, and outrages upon the Southern people, were part of a political and military system at Washington, and would be persisted in.

  39. This resolution was designed with special reference to the recent outrages of John Brown and his associate conspirators, several of whom had expiated their crimes upon the gallows, at the hands of the authorities of Virginia.

  40. What plea should England need for her outrages upon Ireland?

  41. Mr. Bolt, I'm the sixth brickmaster this Union has driven out of the trade by outrages during the last ten years.

  42. Outrages against law and justice depend to a certain extent on locality for their distinctive character.

  43. These outrages against personal independence were regarded among the great masses of Americans with the utmost indignation.

  44. Napoleon was first to begin these outrages on the rights of neutrals; but his injustice was practically felt only on land; while England was first to introduce the paper blockade, a measure ruinous to American merchants.

  45. These outrages led to the so-called Boston Massacre, more fully described in a previous chapter.

  46. The newspapers were open to but one side of the question and the inflammatory pieces that issued weekly from the press, worked up the populace to a fit temper to commit the outrages that ensued.

  47. Freedom to be sure is outraged when a custom-officer invades a man's house, his castle, but high tariff cannot exist without outrages upon freedom.

  48. These two outrages fired Northern passion and determination.

  49. Up to this time the initiative and the bulk of outrages lay assuredly heavily on the pro-slavery side; hereafter they became increasingly common and more evenly divided.

  50. And yet the police, ever ready to hinder similar outrages in regard to the king, become deaf or soften down the words when they hear the Holy Father vituperated in this fashion.

  51. Fear compels these little Neros to don the mantle of Julian; for, while under the eyes of two diplomatic bodies in Rome, they dare not carry their outrages on the Pope and his dignity beyond a certain limit.

  52. Vatican from the outrages or even from the blow of these most civilized gentlemen who form the new Roman people!

  53. On the way, they had to encounter the threats and outrages of a rabid mob.

  54. In my opinion a more wide-spread instruction in the natural sciences--together with their substitution for the classics--would do more than any repressive laws to suppress the outrages of anarchy.

  55. Crispi had just proposed the "exceptional laws for the public safety," which, using the outrages of the anarchists as a pretext, aimed by this method to strike a blow at and to suppress socialism.


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