About 1615 the British formed a settlement in the island, at Cambello, which they retained until 1623, when it was destroyed by the Dutch, and frightful tortures inflicted on the unfortunate persons connected with it.
After causing the most frightful losses, it was at last stamped out by the resolute slaughter of all affected animals and of all that had been in contact with them.
Again, by his restoration of the papal state, after the frightful era of the Borgias, Julius became the saviour of the papal power.
And he had only one wish-- that the frightful thing that had to happen should happen quickly.
But the most frightful of all the forms which 3 There is no means of identifying the place besieged.
Child fears a recurrence of the frightful dream and may resist a return to bed.
Clement's motive for this reso- Settlement lution was his fear that the independence of the ecclesiastical government might be endangered among the frightful dissensions and party conflicts by which Italy was then convulsed; while at the same time he yielded to the pressure John 334.
Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is separation!
Decius followed them, but a severe defeat near Beroe made it impossible to save Philippopolis, which fell into the hands of the Goths, who treated the conquered with frightful cruelty.
Defoe, in 1724 complained " that the Northern Road from London was perfectly frightful to travelers.
Denison, archdeacon of Taunton, Lord Shaftesbury, and others formed a strong committee of protest, whilst Pusey declared that "the choice was the most frightful enormity ever perpetrated by a prime minister."
Do you imagine that this anemic youth was capable of so frightful an assault?
Eleanor, you take care of yourself too, sounds frightful.
For many men, coloring gray hair can be a little frightful.
Frightful executions in the island followed his fall.
Halloween kids' game ideas can be simple, fun, and even frightful.
He also took on a different personality, usually one that was flailing and frightful.
He certainly was a queer creature, yet Trot decided he was not at all frightful.
He.s alive but a frightful mess, and we haven.t been able to identify him.
If the weather outside is frightful, white snow pants for the girls will keep a young lady warm during hours of playing in the snow.
In 1084 the Seljuk Turks captured it but held it only fourteen years, yielding place to the crusaders, who besieged it for nine months, enduring frightful sufferings.
In this 1948 film, the classic comedy duo meet the famed monster and a cast of other frightful characters.
In Wales its counterpart was Gwyllgi, "the Dog of Darkness," a frightful apparition of a mastiff with baleful breath and blazing red eyes.
It had been a time of frightful changes throughout Sicily, full of breaking up of old landmarks, of confusion of races, and of movements of inhabitants.
It is overhung on the east and north by frightful crags, from which it is fed by a number of small rills.
It was during his papacy that the siege of Rome by Alaric (408) took place, when, according to a doubtful anecdote of Zosimus, the ravages of plague and famine were so frightful, and help seemed so far off, that papal permission was granted to sacrifice and pray to the heathen deities; the pope was, however, absent from Rome on a mission to Honorius at Ravenna at the time of the sack in 410.
It was this character of Sicily which led to its one frightful piece of local history.
Maybe your goal is to spook the neighborhood with your frightful outfit or win the Costume of the Year award at a party.
Meanwhile there had been a frightful earthquake in 1822, and a visitation of cholera in the following year.
Murray, now that he hoves into the quad, looks frightful.
Not only had they risked and lost all in the attempt and drawn upon themselves the frightful vengeance of the state, but they saw themselves the means of injuring irretrievably the cause for which they felt such devotion.
Pair you palette with an over the top, ratted nest hairstyle, and you have a frightful look that is both unique and creative.
So, as you may realize this was a very frightful event.
The beds were all OK but the meals (extra) varied from good Cuban cooking to quite frightful, but we survived!
The comparatively limited spread of this frightful epidemic in Italy at this time is a most noteworthy fact.
The Eastern warfare of the Good is stained by the frightful sack of Thessalonica; it is marked also by the formation of an Eastern state under Sicilian supremacy (1186).
The effort to remedy the frightful corruption which had been fostered by the Hats and Caps engaged a considerable share of his time and he even found it necessary to put the whole of a supreme court of justice (Giita Hofratt) on its trial.
The great blot on his memory is his cruelty, which at times was frightful, and showed itself in its full fierceness in the punishment of persons accused of witchcraft, soothsaying or magical practices.
The image of a woman being attacked by birds is vivid but not frightful enough that you would lead your children away.
The jobbing was frightful, and is probably inseparable from wholesale operations of this kind.
The king, who had shown him favour throughout and who had forbidden his being tortured, directed that he should be hanged till he was quite dead and that the usual frightful cruelties should be omitted.
The park is transformed into a hauntingly frightful sight, with haunted rides, roaming zombies and special trick-or-treat options for the kids.
The ravages of the Sicilian Saracens in the Greek islands were more frightful than ever, and George Maniaces, the first captain of his time, was sent to win back the lost land.
The weather in Norfolk was frightful.
Then with another frightful facial contortion he reimbedded the monocle.
These deities are not easily ' One of the most important sources for the ancient Mexican traditions and myths is the so-called " Codex Chimalpopoca," a manuscript in the Mexican language discovered by the Abbe analysed, but on the other hand Tonatiuh and Metztli, the sun and moon, stand out distinctly as nature gods, and the traveller still sees in the huge adobe pyramids of Teotihuacan, with their sides oriented to the four quarters, an evidence of the importance of their worship. The war-god Huitzilopochtli was the real head of the Aztec pantheon; his idol remains in Mexico, a huge block of basalt on which is sculptured on the one side his hideous personage, adorned with the humming-bird feathers on the left hand which signify his name, while the not less frightful war-goddess Teoyaomiqui, or " divine wardeath," occupies the other side.
These worked themselves up, mainly by the use of frightful self-tortures, into a state of frenzy, in which they prophesied and cured diseases.
They are black, with woolly hair, and in their eyes and countenances there is something quite frightful ....
They entered Italy on the north-east under the leadership of Antonius Primus, defeated the army of Vitellius at Bedriacum (or Betriacum), sacked Cremona and advanced on Rome, which they entered after furious fighting and a frightful confusion, in which the Capitol was destroyed by fire.
They turned the tables on the pope by engaging Hawkwood, and although the Bretons by order of Cardinal Robert of Geneva (afterwards the anti-pope Clement VII.) committed frightful atrocities in Romagna, their captains were bribed by the republic not to molest its territory.
This fruitful region, however, was covered with villages till the frightful devastations of the 18th century; and even now it is, comparatively speaking, well cultivated.
To this fact it owes its immunity from the forest fires which wreak frightful havoc among the surrounding forests.
Under such a system the most frightful excesses were possible and many cases of brutal cruelty were laid bare.
When Halloween rolls around, black cat face painting helps capture the magic and mystery of the beloved frightful night.
When research in oceanography began, the conditions of the sea were of necessity observed only from the coast and from islands, the information derived from mariners as to the condition of parts of the sea far from land being for the most part mere anecdotes bearing on the marvellous or the frightful.
When the frightful night of All Hollow's Eve rolls around, creepy Halloween makeup ideas for traditional ghouls are sure to help you create a bewitching and scary costume.
With a combination of frightful shows, scarier rides, and enough special events to keep everyone in your family entertained, it's a no-fail way to celebrate Halloween.