Punished

Examples

• Yes, I am guilty of those faults, and punished for them every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She strove to think it was right that she should be so punished. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If he's done anything amiss, he shall confess, beg pardon, and be punished. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He ought not to be punished for it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The murderer was never punished, for the good reason that he was never caught--the result of the further circumstance that he was never pursued. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Of course, they will be punished with the utmost rigour of the law, as notice-boards observe,' replied James Harthouse, 'and serve them right. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The members pleaded to the information, that expressions in parliament ought only to be examined and punished there. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You have a good heart, Harriette, said he, and, whatever my faults may have been, I am now sufficiently punished. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• When Thomasin was tremblingly engaged in signing her name Wildeve had flung towards Eustacia a glance that said plainly, I have punished you now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Kala punished, Tublat swore dire vengeance, and old Kerchak took notice and warned and threatened; but all to no avail. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He said that if he did he would be punished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have been punished for my impatience. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You can leave your friends, though,' said Oliver with a half smile; 'and let them be punished for what you did. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I have no recollection of ever having been punished at home, either by scolding or by the rod. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Laurie has confessed, asked pardon, and been punished quite enough. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We were actually punished for not reading that book. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And severely she was punished for it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She would be punished, not he. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He wanted Germany punished as though she was a uniquely sinful nation and France a sinless martyr land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And has not her own avarice been sufficiently punished by the ruin of her own hopes and the loss of the property by which she set so much store? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I suppose there is nothing pride can so little bear with as pride itself, and that she was punished for her imperious manner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She was properly punished. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I told him if he did not he most certainly would be punished. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As I am punished for it severely, try to forgive it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I was punished enough at the time--is there to be no respite for me? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Treasury said Merdle's work punished him a little. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The ringleaders of riots, they think, ought to be punished: they would punish them themselves if they could. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She has come between me and my inclination, and now that she finds herself rightly punished she gets you to plead for her! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But it seems to have been thought that this kind of innocence may be punished by way of _preventing crimes_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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