Condemned

Examples

• But he was now married; and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery, which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She bethought herself now of the condemned criminal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• All the fifteen were condemned, and the trials of the whole occupied an hour and a half. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Where the quiet coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles--' he was murmuring to himself, like a man condemned to death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is very simple, and such a harmless act that it could be condemned by no one. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• To this awful fate the creature within my power had condemned my Princess. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The same energy turns the electric fan, and with kindly service soothes the weary sufferer, and at another place remorselessly takes the life of the condemned criminal. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they may be, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Here the felon is condemned. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He was apprehended-- committed--tried--condemned--to die. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The hotel where he was known to live when condemned to that region of blackness, was the stake to which he was tied. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And is not their humanity to the condemned in some cases quite charming? Plato. The Republic.
• Sergeant Cuff looked with a rueful face at the three chairs on which he had condemned himself to pass the night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was tried, and condemned to death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Her mind pursued them, looking for him among the Condemned; and then she clung closer to his real presence and trembled more. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Unhappy man, said the Jewess; and art thou condemned to expose thy life for principles, of which thy sober judgment does not acknowledge the solidity? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The knowledge shall be brought home to you that such a ridiculous affair is condemned by the voice of Society. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He condemned, for instance, the prevalent belief in the transmigration of souls. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not present, and which he loathes and abhors as much as you do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• What debt did she owe to a social order which had condemned and banished her without trial? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But Beppo was condemned to a year's imprisonment, and in the meanwhile his six busts were scattered over London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Any one carried home by the people to-day, may be condemned tomorrow. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But, I was again taken and condemned. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Condemned to inaction and a state of constant restlessness and suspense, I rowed about in my boat, and waited, waited, waited, as I best could. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• From first to last there had been condemned and executed about four thousand people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Shelton