mediaeval

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Understandably the sorts of punishments favoured by the public at large border on the mediaeval, which is regularly exploited by the right to attack rehabilitation and reform in custodial sentencing at large.

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  • The bandolier made him look something like a mediaeval musketeer; or might have reminded an admirer of Dumas' wonderful story--and who is not?--of Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis The Naval Brigade was also mounted on camels, and it was great fun to see them start. —  For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
  • In the complex tangle of motives that actuated the mediaeval Spaniard--and in his peninsula we may apply the term mediaeval to later dates than would be proper in France or Italy--the desire of extending the dominion of the Church was a very real and powerful incentive to action. —  South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure
  • As for the mediaeval and historic groups, Sidonia could recall nothing equal to them; and what surprised him most was the effect produced by such miserable materials. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
  • We will forgive all your mediaeval, if you will forgive us our modern sins. —  Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)
  • These papers and their editors played a great part, and will often be noticed, but for the present all that need be said is that their rise at this period is one of the symptoms of the tremendous change that had come over the city of Paris Paris before 1789 was, in a sense, mediaeval, provincial. —  The French Revolution A Short History
 

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