How To Use Regicide In A Sentence
-
The hero of Dostoevsky's novel - Rodion Raskolnikov - is not a regicide in deed but in word.
-
Sir Purbeck Temple, testifying against the regicides in 1660, alleged that ‘the people cried out: ‘What, do you carry the King in a common Sedan, as they carry such as have the Plague?’’
-
There was an immediate clampdown on any subject that smacked of regicide and the San Carlo attempted to foist on Verdi its own re-write of the libretto.
-
King had wisely left the business to Parliament, and, when the circumstances of the times, and the sincere horror in which good men held what they called regicide and sacrilege are duly considered, it must be owned that Parliament acted with humanity and moderation.
Life of John Milton
-
Indubitable evidences of an ancient custom of ritual regicide have been found over a great portion of the globe.
-
His most influential interpreter carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide.
-
Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide?
-
Abidan’s justification for regicide is a deliberate satire of Cromwell’s views: ‘King!
Schwarz 1 - Criticism - Critical Contexts
-
The 55th anniversary of one such regicide passed three days ago.
-
The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime.
-
In the fall of 1861, the Richmond Dispatch launched an assault on the American Tract Society for issuing Oliver Cromwell's Bible for the use of Yankee troops, condemning the implicit sanction given to ‘the whole crowd of pious regicides.’
-
In absolutist France, for instance, criminals were publicly tortured and executed, and the book begins with a detailed and thoroughly gruesome account of the punishment of a regicide in 1757.
-
Indubitable evidences of an ancient custom of ritual regicide have been found over a great portion of the globe.
-
Those regicides who were already dead, such as John Bradshaw and Oliver Cromwell, had vengeance wreaked on their disinterred corpses.
-
Yes, yes, regicide was often accompanied by such atrocities, but this was the 20th century.
-
Brand Donnian a traitor, charge him with regicide.
-
Now, while quoting John Milton and admiring Christopher Wren, he must face up to fire and plague and regicide, to the opium and slave trades.
-
As we approach the anniversary of the regicide of that glorious saint and King – Charles I, it is a good time to look at one of the most shameful rewritings of history I have ever seen up there with the holocaust deniers.
Archive 2008-01-13
-
The judges are called regicide, because they tried and condemned a king.
The Short-story
-
Before the royal family's flight, regicide was generally considered an unthinkable option which was advocated only by the most violent of extremists.
-
Mencius refuses to classify as regicide the killing of the wicked king Zhou, on the grounds that he was not truly a king.
Xunzi
-
Gradually the rage against the Puritan regicides passed.
-
Sometimes he gives us a fragment of historical romance, as in the story of the stern old regicide who suddenly appears from the woods to head the colonists of Massachusetts in a critical emergency; then he tries his hand at a bit of allegory, and describes the search for the mythical carbuncle which blazes by its inherent splendour on the face of a mysterious cliff in the depths of the untrodden wilderness, and lures old and young, the worldly and the romantic, to waste their lives in the vain effort to discover it -- for the carbuncle is the ideal which mocks our pursuit, and may be our curse or our blessing.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
-
In the earlier 20th century the play's structural kinship with two plays about regicide, Richard III and, especially, Macbeth, was frequently noted.
-
When Charles II returned to become king of England in 1660, those men who had signed his father's death warrant were tried as regicides (the murderer of a king) and executed.
-
In the later years of the correspondence, there was another major factor: his younger brother was arrested in 1928 for attempted regicide.
-
But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship.
-
I do so not just to make a connection that hasn't been observed before but because "Junius" is taken from Lucius Junius Brutus, not the Shakespearean regicide but the hero and founder of the Roman republic.)
Reactionary Prophet
-
The second and third consuls offer a good example of the consular ralliement: Cambacérès was a regicide, while Lebrun was a royal servant under the Ancien Régime.
-
He played a leading role in the king's trial, and unlike many of the regicides probably had few qualms about signing his death warrant.
-
The King had wisely left the business to Parliament, and, when the circumstances of the times, and the sincere horror in which good men held what they called regicide and sacrilege are duly considered, it must be owned that Parliament acted with humanity and moderation.
Life of John Milton
-
It's easier to believe that Macbeth meets three witches in the forest that goad him to regicide than it is to accept that Romeo and Juliet actually love one another.
-
There was one single solitary chair per dim chamber, or one dark tapestry to divide a gloomy passageway, allowing regicides easy concealment behind it.
-
Enlarged by many newly readmitted members who had held aloof from the act of regicide, it settled into a more prolonged and conservative regime than the army had ever envisaged.
-
As Exton offers the usurper, now King Henry IV, the body of the dead king he lays claim to a reward for regicide.
-
She was foreign-born and a regicide, having got rid of her weak-minded husband Peter III.
-
Indubitable evidences of an ancient custom of ritual regicide have been found over a great portion of the globe.
-
THE founding family of Samsung is royalty in South Korea, and the country's Supreme Court, it turns out, is not inclined to regicide.
-
Indubitable evidences of an ancient custom of ritual regicide have been found over a great portion of the globe.
-
Game 7 - Regicide Fortress (all civs are allowed and civs can be different). Making dock is NOT allowed .
-
The revisionist view of Cromwell as a liberator rather than a regicide was the work of Thomas Carlyle in the 1840s, and a result of Carlyle's friendship with Emerson.
The Man Who Ended Slavery
-
Did singing a regicidal song mean that the singer was himself a regicide?
-
For they say not regicide, that is, killing of a king, but tyrannicide, that is, killing of a tyrant, is lawful.
Leviathan
-
Mr. Helstone, both about France and England; and about revolutions, and regicides, and restorations in general; and about the divine right of kings, which you often stickle for in your sermons, and the duty of non-resistance, and the sanity of war, and -- '
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
-
To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons.
-
So hot was the topic of regicide, censors of the day made the librettist relocate the plot to Puritan Boston.
-
Not surprisingly, then, former members of the Convention did much better than in the previous year: 162 were elected, 71 of them regicides.
-
Northumberland opposed both Charles's execution and the prosecution of the regicides.
-
Similarly, the political realities forced upon a nation suffering the after-effects of civil war and regicide were sobering indeed.
-
By killing the king the regicides made any future compromise impossible; they committed treason and their lives were forfeit.
-
Valuable though such essays are, one might again quibble with a selection lacking analyses of the impact of radicalism on the political process at Westminster or the politics of regicide and republicanism.
-
His most influential interpreter, Mencius, carried his ideas further, even to the justification of regicide.
-
In the hands of the Protestant exiles in the 1550s, conciliarism mutated into forms of resistance theory which justified regicide or the deposition of kings.
-
The death of a regicide was a sort of gala to these belles; while the lead was melting over the furnace, the iron pinchers heating in the fire, and the horses disposed for tearing asunder the four quarters of the victim of the laws, some of them amused themselves with an innocent game at cards, in sight of all these terrible preparations, from which a man of ordinary feeling would avert his looks with horror.
Paris as It Was and as It Is
-
To gain support for regicide, the Levellers compromised the universality of the commons.
-
Some of the regicides - those who signed the death warrant - were executed after the Restoration, but the king's death marked a turning point, the end of the doctrine of divine right.
-
A 5th Century AD dynastic drama was played out here, centred on a usurper of the throne named Kasyapa - the tale of regicide and revenge is equal to anything in Shakespeare.
-
Soon after his death, propagandists began to construct a myth of Scrope as a latter-day Thomas Becket, martyred for his exposure of Henry IV's perjury, regicide and tyrannical rule.
-
Regicides through the agent-general for the humiliation of sovereigns.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
-
Convention were proscribed as regicides, when the word Jacobin sent a thrill of horror down every respectable spinal chord, the daughter of
The French Revolution A Short History
-
He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.
-
They all despaired of obtaining it from the coalesced powers, whilst they had a gang of professed regicides at their head; and several of the least desperate republicans would have joined with better men to shake them wholly off, and to produce something more ostensible, if they had not been reiteratedly told that their sole hope of peace was the very contrary to what they naturally imagined: that they must leave off their cabals and insurrections, which could serve no purpose but to bring in that royalty which was wholly rejected by the coalesced kings; that, to satisfy them, they must tranquilly, if they could not cordially, submit themselves to the tyranny and the tyrants they despised and abhorred.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
-
These differences came to a head when a would-be regicide appealed for assistance from the society.