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We make you a present of all the blows which were received before this law, and admit that you thrashed us with impunity.
As a matter of fact some of them timidly adopted it more than once, almost always with success and invariably with impunity.
They might displease him almost with impunity; his faculty for punishment was much more restricted than his means of recompense.
A boy suddenly butted by a lamb, which he had believed he might torment with impunity, could not have felt more astonished.
This is a dangerous argument, my Lords, and exposes government to the violence of every one who can overturn it with impunity.
"I have felt," he once said of his father, "that he has always looked upon me as something which he could badger with impunity."
The civil tumults which arose in that king's absence showed that the king's lieutenants at least might be disobeyed with impunity.
Sneered Gaston, still writhing with pain, "at my service now, when you hope that my broken wrist will ensure your impunity."
In many places liquor was freely distributed by the leaders of the insurgents, and massacres and robberies were committed with impunity.
There are sundry precepts, delivered by Heathen poets, some eighteen hundred years ago, which modern philosophy may not disregard with impunity.
The purity and bliss of the home might not be endangered with impunity, and the wayward were punished with wholesome severity.
The rapacious disposition they at first displayed was entirely corrected by their conviction that it could not be exercised with impunity.
These they robbed with impunity, nor did their victims dare to complain to the authorities, so thoroughly were they terrified and coerced.
The five months of war had hardened their bodies and accustomed them to face cold, heat, rain, dust, or mud, with impunity.
Hastings's assertion, that an inferior servant cannot be coerced, and that they must riot with impunity in the spoils of the people.
This practice he carried on with impunity for several years, until a more flagrant outrage drew down the anger of his enemy.
In vain was every arm of the police put in requisition, crime after crime was committed with impunity, and terror reigned supreme.
Hitherto she had recognized only the laws of decorum, and had transgressed them with impunity whenever they had oppressed her.
Besides, do not the priests sell this permission to the rich, to transgress an injunction the poor must not violate with impunity?
Thus relieved from the modesty and retirement of the virginal state, they gave themselves up with impunity to all sorts of scandals.
I punished him because he broke the one social law which in my country, at any rate, may not be transgressed with impunity.
The result was that the cutter, having left her station unguarded, the smugglers were able to land their kegs with impunity.
Wait a bit, and he will get more impudent from obtaining these things with impunity, and then he will be more easily caught.
No small number of smugglers have made it their abode, as from thence formerly they could carry on their lawless trade with impunity.
It will be up to you to be intelligently generous now so that you may with impunity be intelligently stingy later, when you are rich.
These are not considered prejudicial to health, since both the natives and the whites sleep in the open air with perfect impunity.
The mischief will be all done previously; and the Press now is completely open to treason, sedition, blasphemy, and falsehood with impunity.
He began abruptly to pass from the impunity of things to their solemnity, and from their being delightful to their being impossible.
This they could do with perfect impunity, as they had poisoned the mind of the indolent and suspicious king against their victim.
It was a frightful sight, the spectacle presented by the mob around these confessionals crowding to the quarry of impunity for crime.
Yet, though always hard up, he had jealously guarded my patrimony, which he could have plundered if he had chosen with impunity.
Though he himself made free with his countrymen, he would not suffer any other person to glance a sarcasm at them with impunity.
A nature of deep and real sensibility, though repressed by external reserve and prudence, could not with entire impunity undergo such a scene.
It is a remarkable fact that this venom, which is one of the most virulent poisons known, can yet be swallowed with impunity.
Business wrongs that would not be tolerated for an instant in a smaller community are perpetrated with entire impunity in the large cities.
He was steady and faithful in his friendships, and not vindictive, on occasions where it was his power to be so with impunity.
It is also shown in the impunity with which Sin-don took the king to task in public for certain things that displeased him.
Copious vocal resources may with impunity be brought before the public and thereby submitted to strain, only after long and regular study.
He may not only violate the laws of his own social nature with impunity, but he may even trample upon the affections of woman.
The only tree that weathered the cold with impunity was the hawthorn, the tenderest leaves and tips of which were not injured.
They have trampled the Constitution under their feet with impunity, and ridden recklessly over all law, to persecute and drive this people.
It will then be determined whether our tombs are our own, or may be robbed with impunity by the little tyrants of a workhouse.
He will be able to handle venomous snakes with impunity for his own part, and to cure by licking those who have been bitten.
These wretches considered the Spaniards as a subjugated race whom the countrymen of the new sovereign might cheat and insult with impunity.
In all these measures the king was abundantly justified; but they gave not the less offense to men hardened by long impunity.
The objects in it, weapons, instruments, and utensils, were solidly fastened to the sides in order to bear the parting shock with impunity.
Still she insisted, and adhered to her opinion that if I could drink the potion with impunity, the child could do the same.
It would do them a world of good to get handsomely thrashed, and to be taught that vessels are not to be plundered with impunity.
I regard myself, then, so little as a wretch or a hypocrite, that no one with impunity shall call me a traitor to the country.
The club was so far above suspicion that it might have patronized with impunity the organ of William Lloyd Garrison or Frederick Douglass.
These excursions gave rise to horrible excesses, which broke down the discipline of the French army, and were not always executed with impunity.
The human being then, that has attained a certain stature, watches and poises his situation, and considers what he may do with impunity.
Some were for flight, but flight was confession; their number, rank, long and consecrated impunity, reassured them, and they resolved to obey.
It could honestly be said that he had stretched between himself and his assailants a network of electricity no one could clear with impunity.
Recollect, sir, also, that the yacht is still in possession of the smugglers, and that you are in no condition to insult with impunity.
The author of human nature, who can give it its rights, will not see it ruined, and suffer its destroyers to escape with impunity.
He thought to bully with impunity, and see me slink into hiding like a whipped dog, terrified by his blustering tongue and dangerous reputation.
Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?
He is appointed to do justice to all, and the Indians fully confide that he will not suffer them to be wronged with impunity.
The tubers may in general be eaten with impunity, but, under certain conditions, cannot be regarded as blameless, since they have caused serious injury.
Captain Truck and the second mate had both commanded him to desist in vain, for impunity from harm had rendered him fool-hardy.
We need not trench upon the theological doctrine of predestination, but we may, with impunity, speculate upon the possibility of a doctrine of educational predestination.
In short, she waged petty war after the manner of a petty nature, knowing that she could annoy an unfortunate superior with impunity.
In my opinion no man should be allowed with impunity to make a wanton attack upon such venerable characters as the judges of the land.
Great men no doubt may commit faults, even crimes, with impunity, for the luster of their achievements throws a shadow over their errors.
Leniency has been tried without success, and it is now necessary to show him that the law will not be braved with impunity.
A traveler wrapped in one of these warm coverings can brave with impunity the dampness of the nights, and enjoy the soundest repose.
Lieutenant Hutton states, that the snakes which the Indian jugglers handle with impunity are drugged with opium, which renders them quiet and harmless.
He oppressed the people and the nobility with impunity: he fell, when his jealous temper rendered him formidable to his servants and favorites.
Animals, whose heads are immersed in it, are immediately suffocated; but those who walk erect, above the surface, pass through it with impunity.
These mysterious visitations are warnings to large populations that they cannot violate sanitary laws with impunity, and force lethargic municipal bodies into action.
Whenever you have occasion to allude to them, you must, before you can do so with impunity, take pure water and scented tea and rinse your mouths.
It might truly be said that between his assailants and himself he had stretched a network of electricity which none could pass with impunity.
Some of these newspaper comments furnish very amusing reading now, especially as the impunity of most of the writers was due to their insignificance.
Even trees that were in the way could not stop him with impunity, as he had proven when he collided with that crooked one.
And how should it be otherwise in an unhappy place, where the wicked man's violence is left to trample down the right with impunity?
It was true that gunboats had run by our batteries, but not with impunity, and some of them had been sunk in the attempt.
There, until the favorite's fall, the poet, loaded with chains, was kept, whilst the vices he had scourged grew greater with impunity.
They might avert the verdict of the future, and prevent posterity from denouncing the irreparable wrong which is now permitted with impunity.
She thought it better not to sin and to incur the calumnies of her accusers, than to commit sin under the veil of impunity.
They are terrible fighters; and other gulls, or even the eagle or the raven, or scarcely man himself, can invade their colony with impunity.
Any barbarity might be exercised with impunity, provided no White person were to see it, though it happened in the sight of a thousand slaves.
Impunity is not mercy, and punishment is never the negation of perfect love, but rather, if you destroy the one you hopelessly maim the other.
The hypocrite may, hereafter, speak behind my back against me, with impunity, as far as his infernal voice does not reach my ears.
Coarse sand and gravel can sometimes be used with impunity as a binder, but the wisdom of using loam or clay is very much questioned.
Even Robin Hood is recorded to have said that he could stand all kinds of weather with impunity, except the wind which accompanies a thaw.
Sumner was devoid of the slightest gleam of humor, and his self-consciousness was extreme; yet Prescott sometimes poked fun at him with impunity.
The right man might have used the words the doctor used, and might have scolded her with impunity, but not the wrong one.
The objects it contained, arms, instruments, and utensils securely fastened against the rounds of wadding, could bear the shock of departure with impunity.
None with impunity offended the great man, who was merciless in his revenge, swearing away the lives of those who dared cross him.
The other, thicker and more compact, bears without breaking all the efforts imparted to the abdominal viscera; it can be pulled with impunity.
Death is the one visitor from whom we scurry like so many children, and terrors thrice his size we face with impunity at every turn.
Alcohol is a poison, and we should discontinue its use at once, as it can be done with safety and perfect impunity, except in rare cases.
He was an old man, with two or more ugly gashes about the face, showing that he had not followed his profession with impunity.
All rules were set at defiance with impunity, and in the chaos which ensued, every one did what was right in his own eyes.
In serious poetry there are practically no rules, and what rules there are may be shattered with impunity as soon as they become at all inconvenient.
And this, happily for himself, but unhappily for the interests of literature, he is able to do with perfect facility and with perfect impunity.
As the crime was so atrocious, and, if allowed to pass with impunity, might entail even more serious consequences, it was determined to burn the man.
You cannot however rob Peter to pay Paul, with impunity, and in the weeks that followed, despite her nightly industry, Laura made no headway.
Wouldn't it be a deterrent in that case to know early in life that such instincts can't be indulged with impunity in the society of gentlemen?