English vocabulary examples in context: banishment
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 1.
In short it was with just cause that we were visited with the penalty of banishment, a mild and lenient one in the eyes of some, but to us the most terrible that could be inflicted upon us.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 2.
They need not have cut off his head, if you please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for life.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 3.
And he spoke in terms of the strongest indignation of the faithless conduct of the allies towards this dethroned monarch, who, after giving himself generously up to their mercy, was consigned to an ignoble and cruel banishment, while a bigoted Popish rabble was tyrannising over France in his stead.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 4.
In his voluntary banishment he found some indescribable refuge from the national rejoicing.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 5.
They moved for something like the imprisonment of Gwynplaine and the execution of the wolf, or at any rate for their banishment.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 6.
It had seemed like seeing their own flesh and blood sold into banishment.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 7.
The glaring insincerity of these sermons was not sufficient to compass the banishment of the fashion from the schools, and it is not sufficient to-day; it never will be sufficient while the world stands, perhaps.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 8.
Society is too well protected by prisons, banishment, criminal investigators, penal servitude.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 9.
In the Allier eleven members of one family alone, the Preveraud family of Donjon, were struck down, one by the penalty of death, the others by banishment and transportation.
Vocabulary in context: banishment -- Example 10.
Exile, banishment, transportation, ruin, home-sickness, death, and despair for 40,000 families.
