How To Use Pillory In A Sentence
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The pillory was used to punish minor offenders including cheats, liars, rioters and homosexuals, by shaming them in public.
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By the way, all the folks pillorying Matt for supposedly peddling a “guilt-by-association” argument are themselves using an inane, broad brush stroke argument.
Matthew Yglesias » Kucinich Sides With Insurance Industry, GOP to Oppose “Insurance Industry Giveaway”
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Be that as it might, the scaffold of the pillory was a point of view that revealed to Hester Prynne the entire track along which she had been treading, since her happy infancy.
The Scarlet Letter
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If barely prosecuted, the real players in our last crash face a long pop-culture pillorying.
Danny Schechter: After Larry Summers, What? Will We Continue to Go Down Hill?
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And my father was honoured to gie his testimony baith in the cage and in the pillory, as is specially mentioned in the books of Peter Walker the packman, that your honour, I dare say, kens, for he uses maist partly the westland of Scotland.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The pillory was occasionally used as a penalty for free people, as for instance in the case of Samuel Thornton, a carpenter sentenced to spend four hours in the pillory in Kingston for his participation in a fraud.
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The earlier book made the business best-seller list by pillorying practices propagated in the name of re-engineering.
Reworking The Workplace
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The "mountainous flunkeydom" at Royal levées is a frequent incentive to ridicule with pen and pencil; Punch is happy in pillorying the Morning Post for the use (A the phrase, "the dense mass of the nobility and gentry" at one of Lady Derby's receptions; while he applauds the Queen for setting a good example by giving early juvenile parties in
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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‘In the past, any sergeant who failed to answer the summons was guilty of an offence and liable to fines or the pillory,’ said assize organiser Maureen Singleton.
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Church leaders protest it is unfair to pillory Benedict, who has acted far more vigorously than Pope John Paul II to stamp out sex abuse.
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But he puts it from him as a temptation of the Evil One, makes public confession on the pillory which had been the scene of Hester's shame, and dies in her arms.
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Den, gentlemens, I shall take my leave of you, dat is all; I do not like to stand on your what you call pillory -- it is very bad way to take de air, I think; and I do not like your prisons no more, where one cannot take de air at all.
The Antiquary — Volume 02
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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The feeling against these figures was not something whipped up by the print publishers and it is worth pointing out that in May 1796 these women were threatened with the pillory by the judge Lord Kenyon.
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Like James the First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie
Waverley — Volume 1
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Minor criminals might also be punished in the village or manor by whipping, the stocks, or the pillory.
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How much gumption does it take to pillory the malfeasant editors, reporters, and publisher who turned to compost ages ago?
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Like James the first, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and, excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying ` ` there were mair fules in the laird's ha 'house than Davie Gellatley,' '
The Waverley
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Both suitors seem confident that marriage to a shrew would prove even more humiliating than submitting to the pillory or a public whipping.
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He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.
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She was sentenced to the pillory and to have the offending tapestry burned before her eyes.
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Cynical council tax payers are already pillorying beleaguered jobsworths for wasting their cash.
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David was on very civil terms with his former opponents, being treated by them as Dr. Shebbeare was in the pillory, who was being allowed to wear a fine powdered flowing wig.
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For his temerity he was sentenced to be nailed by his ears to the local pillory and responded by laying a curse on the courtroom and city.
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There is a piece of business to be transacted between writer and reader before any further dealings are possible, and to be reminded in the middle of this private interview that Defoe sold stockings, had brown hair, and was stood in the pillory is a distraction and a worry.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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He was sentenced to a fine, whipping, defrocking, life imprisonment and pillorying four times a year for the rest of his life.
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But poorer people faced public and physical punishments, from whippings or brandings in the pillory or exposure in the stocks to the final punishment of hanging.
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The furious controversies of that age, in which the stake, the prison, and the pillory were the popular theological arguments, produced a characteristic effect on his sympathies.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
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“Den, gentlemens, I shall take my leave of you, dat is all; I do not like to stand on your what you call pillory — it is very bad way to take de air, I think; and I do not like your prisons no more, where one cannot take de air at all.”
The Antiquary
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And Mr.St. John, who had liberty always on his tongue, had just sent a dozen of the opposition writers into prison, and one actually into the pillory, for what he called libels, but libels not half so violent as those writ on our side.
The History of Henry Esmond
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It seems to have been grasped early on both within government and among the mainstream opposition politicians that the public pillory awaits anyone seen trying to extract political advantage from the death and suffering.
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The 1563 Act also set out the penalty for causing illness by witchcraft: a year's imprisonment plus four appearances in the pillory.
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First, however, the present possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying 'there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie
Waverley
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The Foes were Dissenters, Protestants who did not belong to the Anglican Church, and Daniel's ironic attack on the church landed him a three-day stretch in the pillory.
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Thomas had come home, to a Bolton where the pillory was still a force, where unrest and distress were still to be overcome.
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What argufies so many words?" said the unfeeling Captain; "it is but a slit of the ear; it only looks as if you had been in the pillory.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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That sort of behaviour could get her flogged, or at the vest least locked in a pillory for a while.
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
How Not to be a Writer
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How much gumption does it take to pillory the malfeasant editors, reporters, and publisher who turned to compost ages ago?
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“Ghull,” a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which still show in England the veteris vestigia ruris.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The punishments for which may be confiscation of the fish, imprisonment, the pillory, and the offender giving up his occupation for a year and a day.
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The pillory was a set of stocks that imprisoned head and arms and was used to humiliate petty offenders, who would be insulted and perhaps pelted with mud by passers-by.
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My own pillorying of Battlestar Galactica is largely based on its failure to follow through, though it almost certainly drops down to the next level (or beyond) because of other features.
Ethics and Enthusiasm
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Exposure in the pillory was a favourite prescription, a kind of judicial panacea, to which all sorts of the morally infirm were introduced in turn.
The Customs of Old England
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Hollywood's show biz kids seem to take particular pleasure in pillorying goofballs, which hardly satisfies.
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For a man in the pillory was a fitting object for laughter and rude jests.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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Ghull," a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which still show in
Arabian nights. English
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Both suitors seem confident that marriage to a shrew would prove even more humiliating than submitting to the pillory or a public whipping.
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Far removed from this conception is the condition of the many who have no "casa," but only ghastly walls within which the most intimate acts of life are exposed upon the pillory.
The Montessori Method
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Minor criminals might also be punished in the village or manor by whipping, the stocks, or the pillory.
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John Frost's 1793 trial opens a discussion of spatial shifts from the civilized sociability of the coffee house to the courts, prison, and the pillory.
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This last vilifying barb you offer in yet another comment when, having had the whole root of your hatred revealed in the posting of that email exchange, rather than actually give grounds for your risible concern with a purported conflict of interests, you continue your rancorous pillorying, not to mention the concomitant pompous self-aggrandisement.
Archive 2009-01-01
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About this time a serious quarrel occurred, when 'Henry Fitz-Alan impleaded Matthew Fitz-John, with forty others, for throwing down a pillory in Dodbrooke.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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I do not like to stand on your what you call pillory --- it is very bad way to take de air, I think; and I do not like your prisons no more, where one cannot take de air at all. ''
The Antiquary
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Hereafter you will stand in the pillory of history as a defamer - a calumniator of the dead.
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He stopped at length to note a prisoner in the town pillory, when a promenader of somewhat frayed attire and a countenance which bore marks of dissipation looked at him closely.
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
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It should be possible to pillory the defensive self-righteousness and racism of some – not all – Israelis without being called antisemitic.
Letter: Proportionate play
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* The White House-versus-left battle continues: Glenn Greenwald makes the case that the White House has every right to push back on lefty critics -- but he adds, and I agree, that pillorying or browbeating them isn't going to do jack to help Dem among base voters who are disaffected with Obama policies.
The Morning Plum
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According to legend, what did Defoe's pillory audience throw at him instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects?
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And my father was honoured to gie his testimony baith in the cage and in the pillory, as is specially mentioned in the books of Peter Walker the packman, that your honour, I dare say, kens, for he uses maist partly the westland of Scotland.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Ronson, meanwhile, tries to lay himself bare on the title track, pillorying his superstar DJ persona.
Mark Ronson and the Business Intl
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This isn’t out of the ordinary for prescriptivists; hardly a month goes by without the Language Loggers pillorying some foolishly certain prescriptivist for breaking the very rule the prescriptivist was trying to impose.
(Almost) Zero Tolerance, and linearly separable blogrolls « Motivated Grammar
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We do not envy most of them their eternal martyrdom in marble, their pillory of indiscrimination.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
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* Dems already targeting GOP on spending cuts: The DCCC, in its first major ad offensive, is going up in the districts of 19 House Republicans, pillorying them for supporting cuts to education and research on science and technology.
The Morning Plum
