Sentence examples for burned as a from inspiring English sources

The Beguine Marguerite Porete, another influential mystic, was burned as a heretic in 1310.

Promptly, the boy fell into a fever, and the gypsy was burned as a witch.

The mistress of a bishop, she's in constant peril of being burned as a witch for her heathen healing methods.

"After I was burned as a baby, he always made sure I stayed away from the stove," she said.

In 1969 he told a London journalist that opera houses should be burned as a means of remaking the culture.

"These four churches were burned as a diversion, to throw investigators off," Mr. Johnson wrote in his affidavit.

A nursery school was ransacked and partly burned, as was a community gym.

In Greece from the 8th century bc, woods and resins were burned as an oblation and for protection against demons, a practice adopted by the Orphics.

Joss paper, or ghost money, is burned as an offering at funerals and at anniversaries, so that one's ancestors might live prosperously and in peace.

Pyridine (C5H5N) was burnt as a model compound in a mixture of O2 and N2 to produce CO, NO, and N2O.

A kid just weeks out of the academy was burned, as was a lieutenant.