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Example sentences for "railed"

Lexicographically close words:
raigne; raigned; rail; railcar; raile; railer; railes; railhead; railheads; railing
  1. Curses and imprecations were hurled on her from every side; they railed at her pride, they called her foul names.

  2. They railed against Checco for making them suffer for his own ambition; they had lauded him to the skies for refusing the sovereignty, but now they said he had only feigned, and that he intended to seize the city at the first good opportunity.

  3. Over it hung bronze-railed balconies, and quaint verandas with old carved pillars and rich trellises smothered in purple bougainvilla, while there were oleanders and heavy scented heliotrope in the little square below.

  4. An iron balcony with a flagstaff and signal-mast ringed the base of each dome-top, a stairway spiralled round each shaft to a railed stone platform well above high-water mark.

  5. Catherine was well aware that the Pope had been a party to the request for the removal of her cause, and bitterly she railed at him.

  6. In vain Catherine's representative railed at him, in vain told him that he would commit a great sin and offence against God if he did not excommunicate a King who was, in mortal sin, keeping a mistress at his Court.

  7. And they that went by, railed on him: wagging their heads, and saying: A wretch, that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days.

  8. The one of the malefactors which hanged, railed on him, saying: If thou be Christ save thyself and us.

  9. Moraima, when he talked of Plumitas, sometimes glanced at Gallardo, who, with the vehemence of the neophyte, railed against the authorities because they did not protect property.

  10. He was moving out of the railed enclosure when Andrews called him by name.

  11. Inside the railed enclosure a lawyer was reading a typewritten speech.

  12. They entered the court and passed down an aisle to a railed enclosure in which were high oak chairs.

  13. At the upper end of the nave, a place called the Choir was railed in for the singers; and then, last of all, came the raised part or chancel, which has been spoken of.

  14. I could but beat him, and he railed at me!

  15. As some, who did French counsels most advance, To blind the world, have railed in print at France, Thus do the clergy at your vices bawl, That with more ease they may engross them all.

  16. He has railed against the church, which is a fouler crime than the murder of a thousand kings.

  17. So long as David's men were a wall to his possessions, he would tolerate them; but when they would become a burden, they were rejected and railed upon.

  18. The whole interior of the building was quite Italian--every box railed off with gilded fret work, and lighted with candles swinging in glass shades.

  19. The city is compact and populous, the buildings are very low, and quite resemble the old Moriscan towns along the northern shores of Africa, with close overhanging jalousies and balconies, finely railed and latticed.

  20. The sides of one of the Gravel Pits are oblique, but the other pit, which is railed off, is round and perpendicular.

  21. This perilous part is railed off with two wires supported on iron standards let into the rock.

  22. And he railed against the prelate and against religion, stopping only now and again when Mérat went to her mistress's door, thinking she heard her call.

  23. If she were not better when he returned it would be well for him to seek some excuse to sleep at the inn, for her appearance in the corner frightened him; and standing by the window, looking into the quiet evening, he railed against his folly.

  24. Meanwhile the dear young lord did me some injustice, which, however, I freely forgive him; for he railed at me and called me an old woman, who could do naught save weep and wail.

  25. Above, were open railed galleries, with outside stairs at intervals, giving access to the habitations of the workpeople on three sides.

  26. We of the City of London know Master Alderman Headley too well to hear him railed against.

  27. At present he was well-disposed to all men; even against capitalists and 'profitmongers' he could not have railed heartily Capitalists?

  28. Since the abandonment of the house in Wilton Square, Kate had incessantly railed in this way; it was a joy to her to have discovered new matter for invective.

  29. Her brother Richard she was never tired of railing against, railed so much, indeed, that it showed she by no means hated him as much as she declared.

  30. Then she railed at the Catholics which blessed the queen before they suffered for their religion, proving them wrong with ingenious reasons and fallacious arguments mixed with pleasantries not wholly becoming such grave themes.

  31. He railed at everything, and at times he became quite sarcastic.

  32. Two small gasoline engines sat on each side of this railed circle and between them on a third side was the fuel tank.

  33. On top of it, in the center, was a railed circle that would hold two men, but would crowd them.

  34. He railed at his own criminal folly in letting her leave his side.

  35. Along the top-railed fence which enclosed it were, set at regular intervals, a number of small blue-gum and spruce trees.

  36. In the midst of a small space, rank with weeds and nettles, was a huge brick tomb railed in with bar and spike.

  37. I pass over the fine engrained clothes, the costly furs of the citizens, standing upon scaffolds, railed from Gracechurch to St. Paul's.

  38. He then passed into the railed space where the body had lain and where the darkened trail of blood still bore ghastly testimony to what had occurred.

  39. At the end of this case was a carpeted space, railed in and furnished with a great flat-topped desk.

  40. Johnson too, who, though he railed at her after his fashion, calling her Deborah and Virago Barbauld, did sometimes betray a sincere admiration for her character and accomplishments.

  41. In front of the choir was a platform railed round.

  42. He was, as one the peculiar delight of the Gods, railed and fenced in by his own divinity, so that nought but love and admiration could approach him.

  43. Thus his own sorrows, or the shapes copied from nature that dwelt in his mind with beauty greater than their own, occupied our talk while I railed in my own griefs with cautious secresy.

  44. And the trustees got wind on't and went down with rails and tracts and they railed at him, and exhorted him and made him fairly ashamed of bein' round on Sunday.


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    Other words:
    barred; beleaguered; beset; bound; cloistered; confined; cramped; enclosed; immured; imprisoned; incarcerated; jailed; penned; quarantined; restrained; walled