Sentence examples for scourges him from inspiring English sources

Mr. Schrader doesn't suggest that these are mutually exclusive choices, but rather shows how the strands of Toller's experience twist into a rope that binds and scourges him, until extreme actions start to feel logical and inevitable.

616/617: Some time after Mellitus and Justus depart, Laurence, the archbishop of Canterbury, plans to leave for Francia but has a vision in which St Peter scourges him.

Finally Henry did penance at Canterbury, allowing the monks to scourge him.

The Romans caught a spirited youth called Eleazar and scourged him in sight of the citadel, then erected a cross in plain view and threatened to crucify him.

Glenn Beck has rediscovered Hayek as a hero, but the great prophetess of libertarianism, Ayn Rand, privately scourged him as a "total, complete, vicious bastard".

At this Cleomenes ordered his helots to drag the priest from the altar and scourge him, while he performed the sacrifice himself, after which he went back to Sparta.

Now she undertakes another family scourge in "Him," the new play by her sister, Daisy Foote, that opened on Tuesday night at the 59E59 Theaters in a Primary Stages production.

The document proposes an absolutist theory of monarchy, by which a king may impose new laws by royal prerogative but must also pay heed to tradition and to God, who would "stirre up such scourges as pleaseth him, for punishment of wicked kings".

Pasteur wrote, "Two contrary laws seem to be wrestling with each other nowadays; the one, a law of blood and death, ever imagining new means of destruction and forcing nations to be constantly ready for the battlefield - the other, a law of peace, work and health, ever evolving new means of delivering man from the scourges that beset him.

Pilate writes a sign in Hebrew, Latin and Greek that reads "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews" (abbreviated as INRI in depictions) to be affixed to Jesus' cross (John 19 19 20), then scourges Jesus and sends him to be crucified.

But losing Ernie at a relatively young 56--and losing him to the scourges of AIDS--was too much for Mom.