My remark was an epitogram -- an axis -- a kind of mulct'em in parvo. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Grafter] Reference
This swore, the mulct for blood was strictly paid. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
A heavy mulct should be imposed on literary quizzing. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832] Reference
If he come into debt by contract, or mulct, the case is the same. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
That the world-mart be wider opened to the product mulct from toil. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
It seems cruel to mulct a pretty prima donna for condescending to acknowledge an encore. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
There are companies of them, who guarantee to cure anything, and skilfully mulct the sick of their last penny. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
The origin of exchequers is pointed out above, where "part of the mulct" is said to be "paid to the king or state.". From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
I wouldn't want ya ta get run over by a street-car. mulct Robinson for cash, and then exploit his painting hobby for more. From Wordnik.com. [princeofcairo: Film Fest In July] Reference
Part of this mulct accrues to the King or to the community, part to him whose wrongs are vindicated, or to his next kindred. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Thus in the Salic law it is said, "If a child under twelve commit a fault, 'fred,' or a mulct, shall not be required of him.". From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
The number of five or six should certainly be the limit for which any just scheme of family subsidy should mulct the taxpayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
Appin paid dearly for its merriment in the land of Cailein Mor, and the MacDonalds were mulct most generously for our every hoof and horn. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
"Be off at once," she remarked, "and join the entertainment; for mind, if they find you out, they will mulct you in so many glasses of wine!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
He was mulct in some inconsiderable fine as well, and he was allowed to suit his own convenience and fancy as to the time and manner of surrender. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Cellar, which Dickens made famous as the starting-point of Mr. Pickwick for Bath after being mulct in seven hundred and fifty pounds damages by the fair widow Bardell. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
Acropolis, without assigning the reason for the mulct. From Wordnik.com. [The Athenian Constitution] Reference
Doctor, because they are down upon them for a good mulct or present. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
They cross-raised the boy, working together to mulct him of the pile of chips in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Yeager] Reference
Marquises, earls and a 'that will be mulct on a descending scale, till the lowly knight is reached. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914] Reference
The money received in fines it brought up into the Acropolis, without assigning the reason for the mulct. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
He longed to mulct them, to the service of the State, in the exact amount if their unhallowed appropriations. From Wordnik.com. [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference
When you have offers of free credit cards and balance transfer offers, it's important to read the mulct print. From Wordnik.com. [All about credit cards] Reference
But they have a right to their own opinions, and I will not mulct them because of their conscientious convictions. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's School] Reference
There was indeed a severe mulct, a capital censure enacted, against those that should refuse, and reject this ordinance. From Wordnik.com. [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference
There are loans that mulct us of our self-respect, just as some rebuffs from a friend's lips sweep away our last illusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Skin] Reference
Our handbags were taken out of the room, doubtless to be examined at leisure by the old woman, and mulct of anything valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
He was probably willing, from political motives, to mulct severely that city, on account of the affection which it had borne to. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John] Reference
And that the great-bearded giant Emperor Wilhelm did drink heavily, fight hard, and mulct France mightily, is matter of history. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
Not only will your addition payment increase, but you may also have got to pay an further mulct for not clearing measures on time. From Wordnik.com. [Credit card information] Reference
Casembe is reasonable and fair, but his people are neither, and will do anything to mulct either strangers or their own countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
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