The greater part of the sovereigns of Asia were, and still are, cousins german of the sun and the moon; their subjects dare not make any pretension to such high affinity; and many a provincial governor, who styles himself “nutmeg of consolation” and “rose of delight” would be empaled alive if he were to claim the slightest relationship to the sun and moon. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If any one at present was to announce in Constantinople that he was favored by the angel Raphael, who is superior to Gabriel in dignity, and that he alone was to be believed, he would be publicly empaled. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Upon which some mutes, who had attended the abbé, entered and took off his shoes, letting poor Candide know, by signs, that he must submit to this piece of humiliation, or else expect to be empaled. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The first who would excite a tumult is empaled; and all is tranquil. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Constantinople, and several of their friends empaled. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He had scarcely pronounced these words before he was empaled; nevertheless, he had been all along in the right. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Had he seen in his dreams an infernal bull bearing a matador empaled upon his horns of red-hot steel? ❋ Various (N/A)
By climbing over it, he would risk being empaled on the iron spikes, or otherwise injured. ❋ John Roussel (N/A)
He concluded by asserting emphatically that if it had not been for his foresight in providing himself with field-glasses, the steer would have been running over the flat with Aunt Lizzie empaled on its horns like a naturalist's butterfly, before any one could have prevented it. ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
There at least he would be safe from the hard, inquisitive eyes which empaled him. ❋ Hulbert Footner (1911)
Her small gray house was lovingly empaled about the front and sides by snow-ball bushes and magenta French-lilacs, that grew tenderly close to the weather-worn shingles, and back of one sunburnt field, as far as the eye could see, stretched the expanse of dark, shining scrub-oaks, beyond which, one knew, was the hot, blue glitter of the Sound. ❋ Anne Reeve Aldrich (1879)
It is honey-dew that he is enjoying, and second-hand at that, as he devours the satiated bluebottle-fly which is empaled on his black horny beak. ❋ William Hamilton Gibson (1873)
Her glowing imagery fell upon the bristling points of his close phalanx of arguments, as gorgeous tropical garlands caught and empaled by bayonets until they faded. ❋ Unknown (1872)
Hitherto, the shame of the suspicion, the degradation of the imprisonment had caught and empaled her thoughts; but by degrees, these became dwarfed by the growing shadow of a possibly ignominious death, which spread its sable pinions along the rosy dawn of her womanhood, and devoured the glorious sun of her high hopes. ❋ Unknown (1872)
This, however, has been forbidden since an English hunter fell into a trap and was empaled upon them. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)
Anzeyry to death, his relations offer considerable sums, that he may be empaled instead of hanged. ❋ Unknown (1822)
The Pasha, it is true, often punishes such delinquents, and scarcely a day passes without some one being empaled alive; the caravan moves on, and the malefactor is left to be devoured by the birds of prey. ❋ Unknown (1822)
