| 单词 | flagitious |
| 例句 | Anyone who has been a teenager, or secretly still is, will find deft self-portraiture when taking a ride on this flagitiously funny Submarine. Submarine: From Teen Angst to Pure Delight 2011-06-03T10:05:00Z Indignation is a generous outburst of ~ in view of things which are indigna, or unworthy to be done, involving what is mean, cruel, flagitious, etc., in character or conduct. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The people who profess belief in this are shocked at the outrage offered to our humanity by the Development Theory, while they themselves commit this outrage more flagitious. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The saints of Christianity were either the most useless or most flagitious of men. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z That this family, with their illustrious father, should have escaped altogether, is an instance of good fortune as remarkable as the attempt was flagitious. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Verily the dead flesh rots flagitiously, when the mortal body is subservient to overflowing lust, as the prophet said by one, "The beasts rotted in their dung." The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z His flagitious career commenced by a blind devotion to his guardian deity, culminated in a gigantic forgery, and closed with transportation and infamy. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z After witnessing these events I could not help asking myself, can a church which sanctions and countenances such flagitious iniquities as I have just witnessed, be a Christian church? Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z What is he then, who doth not contend for virtue with the good but to exceed the most flagitious in vices? A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z The question will obviously occur, whether Constantia was sought by him with upright or flagitious views. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Well knew he the flagitious character of the man who was once more his commanding officer. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z This is what I did not expect, for I did not think the flagitious dog had so much spirit or courage in him as to meet me. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z Can Jove, supine, flagitious acts survey And brook the furies of the daring day? Heathen Mythology The lessons which the princes had learnt from the consequences of their flagitious actions did not avail them against later temptations. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. This couple were said to have been married without the intervention of go-betweens, and hence the most flagitious conduct was to be expected from them. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology How can the public allow this drunken, flagitious actor to appear before them, disgracing genius and the taste of his country? Maria Edgeworth Swear that you will never, on any condition, for any boon, aid him in his flagitious enterprise; that you will thwart, and resist, and combat it to the utmost. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 Laborious! ’tis impracticable quite; To sink beyond a doubt, in this debate, With all his weight of wisdom and of will, And crime flagitious, I defy a fool. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes But of all the abuses that deformed the Anglo-Saxon government, none was so flagitious as the sale of judicial redress. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Pierced by several lances, the prince of the Heruli sank to the ground; the flagitious woman had satisfied her revenge at the expense of the peace and the alliance between the Langobards and the Heruli. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The proceedings of the Council of Blood on this occasion were marked by a more flagitious contempt of justice, if possible, than its proceedings usually were. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Nowhere in other historians is there a shred of evidence to support the story of Theodora's flagitious life. Women of Early Christianity From the time that the rites were made thus common, and the licentious freedom of the night was added, there was nothing wicked, nothing flagitious, that had not been practised among them. Roman Women Gossip—which had become differentiated from scandal, because of a wider variety of subjects to chatter about than flagitious conduct, occupied a large proportion of the time of the women. Women of England At last the flagitious murderess Fredegond, at the age of sixty, equally dreaded and abhorred by friend and foe, dies strange to say by a natural death. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) In describing a bad character, it does not say that his actions are flagitious, but that 'God is not in all his thoughts.' Coelebs In Search of a Wife Hallam indeed has said: "We continually find a more flagitious and undisguised abandonment of moral rules for the sake of some idol of a general principle than can be imputed to The Prince of Machiavel." The History of Freedom It is greater folly to pretend that the earthquake killed the most flagitious sinners. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) History has no record of a conspiracy more treasonable, flagitious, and infamous than that in which this rebellion originated; no record of a rebellion more foul, more monstrous, more wicked. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 And the chronicler explains the violent feuds of the sons of King Henry and their fratricidal, internecine strifes by the flagitious transgression of God's commandment: "thou shalt keep the Sabbath holy." Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Suspicious that Rebel citizens within our lines were more or less implicated in this and other raids, quite a number of arrests were made among them, which cleared the country of the most flagitious cases. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry In truth, the ancient problem is extinct, and no reader of this volume will continue to wonder how so intelligent and reasonable a man came to propose such flagitious counsels. The History of Freedom Here, then, behold these venerable men, collected in a body, enclosed within walls dedicated to holy offices, bewailing the flagitious actions of their country-men, yet devout, composed, earnest in prayer, and incorruptible in purity. Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy This flagitious deed “Against my country, and against my sire, “Was all for thee. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II The highest civilizations, both ancient and modern, have sometimes been the most flagitious. Public School Education The culprit was convicted upon various satisfactory testimony; but the incident betokens a state of security, at that period, and a rarity of flagitious offences, which puts to shame the demoralization of our own day. Old New England Traits General Wilkinson, then commanding in the west, afterwards made communications to the president, "involving men distinguished for integrity and patriotism; men of talents, honoured by the confidence of the government, in the flagitious plot." The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Up to that period, so far as government was concerned, a man might have been unprincipled and flagitious. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes He felt, therefore, somewhat sore against the Brattles;—and then there was the fact that Carry Brattle, who had been regularly "subpœnaed," had kept herself out of the way,—most flagitiously, illegally and damnably. The Vicar of Bullhampton These men were reported to be heretics, Lutherans in disguise, seducers of youth, and men of flagitious life. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 Next, it was embodied in a society, and, moreover, a secret and unlawful society or hetæria; and it was a proselytizing society; and its very name was connected with "flagitious," "atrocious," and "shocking" acts. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Four months more brought him to the end of his flagitious career. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality The conduct of Lucretia Borgia has been the subject of much obloquy, which her defenders maintain rests chiefly on inferences from her living in a flagitious court, where she witnessed the most profligate scenes. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Coventry stigmatized them as marking especial and flagitious ingratitude. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Disorders entailed by disobedience to nature's dictates, they regard simply as grievances; not as the effects of a conduct more or less flagitious. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics But the action on the slave trade was the deliberate sanction for twenty years of man-stealing of the most flagitious sort. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement If it be such an outrage, then I say it is a sin of the greatest magnitude, of the most enormous and flagitious character that was ever presented to the human mind. Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? That the Rebellion itself should be regarded with general reprobation throughout the Free States was inevitable, for, in the first place, it involves a most flagitious breach of faith. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Ye Gods! oh then your residence is still On the Olympian heights, if punishment At last hath seized on those flagitious men. The Odyssey of Homer Because the most part of these are not excommunicated nor forfaulted, nor notoriously flagitious and profane, nor such as have from the beginning been, and still are enemies. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Some army poet therein may Have smuggled his flagitious lay. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse I regret to say that “old Cookson” was the shockingly disrespectful way in which this flagitious youth spoke of his reverend and learned tutor. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys The smooth sciolist Stellato rallied his weak wits and uttered a cry of wonder at such flagitious heresy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 I propose only to show, by fuller proofs than have hitherto been available, that Germany must share the responsibility for this flagitious and incendiary document. Fighting For Peace The rule is for employing of such only as are of a Christian and blameless conversation, which is turned over by their commissioners into a negative, all that are not notoriously profane or flagitious. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Confronted with a flat refusal by the indignant Prince to perform what he regarded as a flagitious crime, the Amír-Nizám commissioned his own brother, Mírzá Ḥasan Khán, to execute his orders. God Passes By Such scenes, and such incidents, are the more ridiculous, though the less odious, as the passion of James seems not to have contained in it any thing criminal or flagitious. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. But I will now cite another instance of the advocacy of repudiation by Mr. Jefferson Davis, still more flagitious than that of Mississippi. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 The two men in white were never traced of course, but, later, we meet three men not less flagitious, and even more mysterious. Historical Mysteries However flagitious may be the crime of conspiring to subvert by force the government of our country, such conspiracy is not treason. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 In the presence of the magistrates these flagitious accusers affected extreme agony, and attributed to those whom they accused, the power of torturing them by a look. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Yet These by bold flagitious Tongues run down, Made all Conspirers against Davids Crown. Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden To desert you would be flagitious and dastardly beyond all former acts; yet to stay with you is to contract the disease, and to perish after you. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 What aggravates the Guilt is, that this worthy Prince was stabb'd on the very Day of her Coronation, at a Juncture when he was giving this flagitious Wretch the highest Mark of his Affection. The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol It may produce wicked, flagitious, tyrannical acts; but in no country is it law. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Wives were torn from the arms of their husbands, and suffered the same flagitious wrongs, which were indeed hid in the bottoms of the dungeons in which their honor and their liberty were buried together. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) The Emperor, on the other hand, observed with surprise and rage the energy of the Spaniards, and not doubting that England would hasten to their aid, bent every effort to consummate his flagitious purpose. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Your youth and inexperience make you a stranger to a deceitful and flagitious world. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 But we take our leave of flagitious crimes and proceed to notice men in the common walks of life. Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation We are now come to the last scene of this flagitious transaction. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) They were coming afterwards from every part of the province; and there was no office in the execution of justice which he was not accused of having sold in the most flagitious manner. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) I am an enemy to the flagitious principles of her administration, and to those which govern her conduct towards other nations. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 To abandon their shield is a flagitious crime. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Disorders entailed by disobedience to Nature's dictates, they regard simply as grievances: not as the effects of a conduct more or less flagitious. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library I wish I could stop here but I cannot; there are, unfortunately, still more flagitious motives for their appointment. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two "Yes, but we can calculate upon the death of cunning Alice, who, by her undue and flagitious influence over your uncle, left you so." The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One His conspiracy has been one of the most flagitious of which history will ever furnish an example. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 By the charitable that deed was but imputed to sudden transports of esthetic passion, not to any flagitious quality. The Piazza Tales If he adhered to the strict truth, what could he offer in his own defence without convicting himself of acts which, by English tribunals, would be accounted flagitious crimes? Israel Potter One 353 circumstance is mentioned by Horace Walpole, which, if true, was indeed flagitious. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals A dissolute flagitious footman may make as good a rake as a man of the first quality. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant The author would merit exemplary punishment for so flagitious a libel, were not the torment of his own abominable temper punishment sufficient for even as base a crime as this. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Q. Gentlemen, in the preamble to the late Earl of Oxford's patent, I observed, 'And whom they have congratulated upon his escape from the rage of a flagitious parricide.' Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 Pope Benedict IX. was guilty of such flagitious crimes that he became an object of public abhorrence, and he finally sold the Popedom. The Revelation Explained So far as I could learn the particulars of their previous history, they had lived flagitiously loose lives; such as must have corrupted their blood long before they became lepers. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Sometimes our old Colonel gets into the flagitious habit of writing for the newspapers. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series All this was done under the forms of law, and yet it would be hard to find in the annals of crime an instance more flagitious. The Church and Modern Life It had been his duty, for a while, to protect Mountjoy, and the creditors who had lent their money to Mountjoy, from what he had believed to be a flagitious attempt. Mr. Scarborough's Family The king had detected something flagitious, which would not have been very difficult. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829 The story of a flagitious murder shall be listened to with indifference, while an innocent man is hunted, like a wild beast, to the furthest corners of the earth! Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are I am wrong, hardened, and flagitious, I make no doubt, but I speak of the facts as they are. Martin Hewitt, Investigator Every day we read of outrageous assaults upon him with marline-spikes and other perverted marine stores, by brutal skippers and flagitious mates, whose proper end would be the yard-arm and the rope's end. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870 It was in vain that the Corsicans addressed a most affecting memorial to the court of Versailles; that remorseless government persisted in its flagitious project. The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson To punish this flagitious deed, and restore his dominion in Italy, the emperor sent a fleet and army into the Adriatic Gulf. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Since a legal marriage was impossible, no doubt, his views were flagitious. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale None escaped; on the other hand, not one was found guilty of flagitious peculiarity. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Let my defence be right or wrong, and I had by no means yet decided in the negative, still the turpitude of the bishop and my persecutors was no less flagitious. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor But if in noble minds some dregs remain Not yet purg'd off, of spleen and sour disdain; Discharge that rage on more provoking crimes, Nor fear a dearth in these flagitious times. The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems She was deeply skilled in those dark and flagitious arts, which have cast a gloom upon this mortal scene. Imogen A Pastoral Romance For the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow? Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale History abounds with details of the most atrocious cruelties, under the imposing name of public worship; nothing has been considered either too fantastical or too flagitious by the votaries of superstition. The System of Nature, Volume 2 Such a proceeding would be a coup d'état, not as flagitious certainly as that of Bonaparte, but to the full as revolutionary and illegal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 The Adelantado had received intelligence of the flagitious proceedings of Roldan, yet hesitated for a time to set out in pursuit of him. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) I pity you, sir; I grieve for you: you have talents of a certain kind, but your habits, wretchedly and flagitiously perverse, have made you act on most occasions like an idiot. Jane Talbot But suppose him inaccessible to such inducements; suppose him to persist in all his flagitious purposes; are not the means of defence and resistance in my power? Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Thus, in a moment, had terminated his long and flagitious career. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Yet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity. Henrik Ibsen Among the people there was violent indignation; as to the senators, whether they would ratify so flagitious a proceeding, or annul the act of the consul, was a matter of doubt. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War Speak not for Ramorny, for he dies; and go thou from my presence, and repent the flagitious counsels which could make thee stand before me with a falsehood in thy mouth. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day So flagitious had the practice become, that Cicero mentions a whole bench having been induced by indulgences of the most abominable kind to acquit Clodius, though manifestly guilty. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius This deportment was too humiliating and flagitious to be imputed to him. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker And the mystery of his retreat, and the still unexplained mystery of his strange and ruinous influence over the man whom he at last so flagitiously murdered, were not cleared up until years afterwards. Gaut Gurley Under Walpole's administration the imperial Parliament had degenerated from an independent assembly to a junta of placemen, and the most flagitious system of bribery was openly practised and avowed. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems Oh! rather, scornful of flagitious greatness, Resolve to share our dangers and our toils, Companion of our flight, illustrious exile, Leave slav'ry, guilt, and infamy behind. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Despisers of government are enumerated by the Apostle as among the most flagitious of men. Government and Rebellion Fabricate, fabulous, facetious, factitious, fallacious, fallible, fastidious, fatuous, feasible, feculence, fecundity, felicitous, felonious, fetid, feudal, fiducial, filament, filtrate, finesse, flaccid, flagitious, floriculture, florid, fluctuate, foible, forfeiture, fortuitous, fractious, franchise, frangible, frontal, froward, furtive. The Century Vocabulary Builder To them, such a flagitious betrayal of trust was a new and startling event. Gaut Gurley The more flagitious the meditated enterprise, the deeper was the veil of hypocrisy thrown over it in this corrupt age. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 The army and navy are "the most wicked and flagitious in the Universe." The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 I place on that miscreant's back a long array of flagitious ancestors. The Queen Pedauque Our short duration here and the doubts of the hereafter should awe the most flagitious, if they reflected on them. Lectures and Essays Can Jove, supine, flagitious facts survey, And brook the furies of this daring day? The Iliad To meet the possibility of this flagitious obstinacy, I came armed with the thunder of the church, and the indignation of a justly incensed monarch. The Scottish Chiefs The most sanguine lovers of their fellow-men have always admitted the existence of a certain number of flagitious persons who obstinately object to being good. The Heart of Rome What one party calls meritorious, the other denominates flagitious. Letters from an American Farmer One instance, however, is so flagrantly flagitious, that I cannot resist the inclination I feel to relate it, as an example of the most infernal perfidy that perhaps ever entered the human heart. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle No doubt can be entertained, that a humane and liberal government will interpose its authority, to prevent the repetition of such flagitious conduct. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson The buggy was in a cool, pleasant shade; and Montgomery would maintain this flagitious procrastination of his managerial duties while I remained a butt for his ill-timed chaff. Such Is Life Not a single chance does malignity, free or chartered, appear to have missed for the invention of flagitious falsehoods concerning this family, or for the no less flagitious misinterpretation of known facts. The Life of Cesare Borgia Never was there a more flagitious instance of corruption. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 This man has himself told us that, when he was very young, he fell in with a pamphlet which contained an account of the flagitious life and horrible death of Dangerfield. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 "A day of obstacles to thy flagitious returns in the morning." Actions and Reactions It was necessary, not only to bribe, but to bribe more shamelessly and flagitiously than his predecessors, in order to make up for lost time. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 Nevertheless, it may have been some lingering remnant of this fervour of reform that dictated the severe punishment which fell that year upon the flagitious Bishop of Cosenza. The Life of Cesare Borgia To do so would be the most flagitious injustice. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 This flagitious attack upon the dignity of the knight so incensed him that he applied to a lawyer at Warwick to put the severity of the laws in force against the rhyming deer-stalker. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon We imagined the late example was rather a warning to the accuser than the criminal, and accordingly proceeded in the most impudent and flagitious manner. A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2 Down to the very eve of this flagitious attempt Charles had been talking of his respect for the privileges of Parliament and the liberties of his people. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 To no such flagitious lengths as these can it be shown that Alexander carried the "sale" of the indulgences he dispensed. The Life of Cesare Borgia That gallant Cavalier was hanged, after the Restoration, for a flagitious burglary. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 |
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