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...wrathful monarch. "I wish to see your blood spilled," said the Sultan. "You shall die, but I give you your choice between a revolver bullet and the lions." Then sacks were pulled over the prisoners' heads and they were told to pray. At that moment, a few pious and powerful members of the Sultan's entourage implored him to spare the wretches' lives; one even predicted that Allah would be angry if the death penalty were carried out. After some moments of glum meditation, the Sultan said: "All right, I will spare them, but they will stay...
Christendom is sown with the bones of saints-chips and splinters, shins and fingers, skulls and full skeletons-encased in rich reliquaries and venerated by the faithful. The delicate question of authenticity often rests only on pious tradition; one bone looks much like another, and who can say for sure...
...script makes a couple of pious passes at pointing a moral; it says that the community-the greedy tavernkeeper, a weak cop, some hotheaded and vicious citizens-is as much to blame for what happens as the young delinquents are, but it is hard to believe in such talk...
...intend it to be amusing. I seriously doubt that "most of London enjoyed a good cry" over this "tearjerker." London in 1740 was a sophisticated town, and . . . Richardson must have known what he was doing when he wrote a bedroom farce in a manner so naive and pious as to offend nobody. Fielding's heavy-handed satire proves only that he was better as novelist than as critic ... so perhaps we should be grateful that he missed the point of Pamela's wary innocence. That he would in the end prefer a tedious trollop like Amber, I very...
...soles of their feet, 3) burning their eardrums with lighted cigarettes. Hay ward was fined ?100 ($280) and jailed for three months, but the English judge did not think that the soldiers should be judged too severely. "It is easy to work oneself up into a state of pious horror over these offenses," said he, "but they must be considered against their background. All the accused were engaged in seeking out inhuman monsters and savages of the lowest order...