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Odysseus, at least, accused him of this crime and Ajax was to be stoned to death, but saved himself by establishing his innocence with an oath.
It relates that certain Jews coming to Syria and Salamis, where Barnabas was then preaching the gospel, being highly exasperated at his extraordinary success, fell upon him as he was disputing in the synagogue, dragged him out, and, after the most inhumane tortures, stoned him to death.
According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.
Chapman later told a story in his college tour that when he went public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was gay, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned.
After his house in Môtiers was stoned on the night of 6 September 1765, Rousseau took refuge in Great Britain with Hume, who found lodgings for him at a friend's country estate in Wootton in Staffordshire.
When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.
The result of this directness was limited airplay, and there was a similar reaction when Dylan, who had also electrified to produce his own brand of folk rock, released " Rainy Day Women ♯ 12 & 35 ", with its repeating chorus of " Everybody must get stoned !".
This was a straw effigy which would be stoned and abused.
2300 BC ), the former custom of polyandry in his country was abolished, on pain of the woman taking multiple husbands being stoned with rocks upon which her crime is written.
A few days after Agnes ' death, her foster-sister, Saint Emerentiana was found praying by her tomb ; she claimed to be the daughter of Agnes ' wet nurse, and was stoned to death after refusing to leave the place and reprimanding the pagans for killing her foster sister.
However, Pausanias, quoting the Cypria, says that Odysseus and Diomedes drowned Palamedes, while he was fishing, and Dictys says that Odysseus and Diomedes lured Palamedes into a well, which they said contained gold, then stoned him to death.
* Stephen, the first martyr of Christianity ( stoned to death by Jewish leaders for preaching that Jesus was the Christ )
This date is usually given as the date of the martyrdom of Saint Telemachus, a Christian monk who was stoned by the crowd for trying to stop a gladiators ' fight in a Roman amphitheatre.
Alternatively, another tradition maintains that Matthias was stoned at Jerusalem by the Jews, and then beheaded ( cf.
Ennodius ' grandson was Petronius Maximus, another ill-fated emperor, who ruled in Rome for but 77 days before he was stoned to death while fleeing from the Vandals on May 24, 455.
Porphyry says Milo's house at Croton was burned and the Pythagoreans within stoned.
He was stoned to death by the people of Israel when Rehoboam sent him in an attempt to collect taxes ().
In a notorious incident at a concert in Amsterdam, while the Airplane was performing " Plastic Fantastic Lover ," Doors singer Jim Morrison, stoned on some hash given to him by a fan, appeared on stage and began dancing.

was and death
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.
laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.
Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.
So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;
The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.
Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.
So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.
The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.
Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.
It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.
There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.
The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.
Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.
In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

was and left
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.
Curt was holding Jess's gun in his left hand.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.
He was asking had it been she who left the love note in his sheets ( she also served as maid ) when he saw the Grafin followed by a stately blond girl approaching his table.
His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.
His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.
There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo -- thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces.
No doubt, there was still a lot in the Draft Program -- and in Khrushchev's speech -- which left many points obscure.
It was left out of him at birth.

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