What is "burnings"

Usage examples of "burnings".

As queen, she was the person with the ultimate power to sanction the burnings that took place.

Like Gardiner, she was convinced that the burnings would act as a deterrent to others.

It was he who urged King Philip, who was concerned about the effect of the burnings on his reputation in England, to be more zealous in persecuting the English heretics.

Far from converting the Protestants to the Roman Faith, the burnings had the effect of hardening their resolve and inflaming their anger against the Queen.

There will be one, maybe two small Burnings, then a big one," Morth said.

I had witnessed two mass burnings in Treves, of the most despicable suffering made all the worse by the Protestant clerics who are as fierce as the Catholics and in complete agreement with them that Satan is afoot in the land and waging his victories through the most unlikely of townsfolk – mere simpletons in some cases, though in most merely honest housewives, bakers, carpenters, beggars, and the like.

You know that no matter how often I witness these despicable burnings, I cannot inure myself to them.

For as I rode back and forth before the pyre, listening to the stammering and stupidity of a pair of local wine sellers who boasted of having seen other burnings as if this were something to be proud of, I did not know the full history of the Comtesse.

But things which are changed all of a sudden, and only gradually and with difficulty return to their own nature, have effects in every way opposite to the former, as is evident in the case of burnings and cuttings of the body.

He has seen burnings before, has ordered a number of them himself on the Garsenc lands, following his father's regime of having one such spectacle every year or so to keep the serfs and villagers properly subdued.

There was an army now, and it seemed Galbert de Garsenc's long dream of burnings in Arbonne was about to be fulfilled.

That was how she felt, she had decided-or how she had been feeling, until war came with the harrowing reports of deaths and burnings and thoughts of such private matters were triv­ialized and driven far away.

Karal and the rest were required to attend the burnings, and he was told that the ashes were returned to their families as a mark of the disgrace to their bloodline.

What trees still stood were blackened as if by countless burnings, and the brush was gnarled and stunted.

After three years of burnings, hangings and torture there are probably now more followers of the Tree Cult than there were at the start.