He painted, quietly, without fine words but with assurance and conviction, his belief in the punishment of mankind. God was almost now upon the threshold of their house. He was at the very gates of their city, and with Him was coming a doom as sure and awful as the sentence of the earthly judge on his earthly victim. "Punishment! Punishment! We have grown in this careless age to laugh at punishment. A future life? There is no future life.英文原著 · 《The Captives》
What is the real basis of punishment, however? The notion of a free will, the idea that man is at all times a free agent for good or evil; if he chooses the latter, he must be made to pay the price. Although this theory has long been exploded, and thrown upon the dustheap, it continues to be applied daily by the entire machinery of government, turning it into the most cruel and brutal tormentor of human life. The only reason for its continuance is the still more cruel notion that the greater the terror punishment spreads, the more certain its preventative effect.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
He would return to bondage. The law would claim him as an absconder, and would mete out to him such punishment as was fitting. Perhaps he might escape severest punishment, as a reward for his exertions in saving the child. He might consider himself fortunate if such was permitted to him. Fortunate! Suppose he did not go back at all, but wandered away into the wilderness and died? Better death than such a doom as his. Yet need he die?英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Launceston: Henry Dowling, 1,846. "Backhouse's Voyages" [ut supra]
CHAPTERS VII., VIII., IX., XII. Adventures of Martin Cash [ut supra], pp.133-141; Cases of George Armstrong, "Pine Tree Jack", and Alexander Campbell. Punishment of the "gag" and "bridle". Correpondence relating to the Rev. Rogers [ut supra],pp. 41-43. Punishment of the "gag" and "bridle".英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
An "extra" is an extra tour of guard duty given as punishment. Cadets on "extra" are equipped as for parade, and walk in the area of Cadet Barracks from two o'clock until retreat, or from two to five hours, on Saturday or other days of the week. An "extra" is sometimes called a "Saturday Punishment."英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
The finding of the court was approved by President Grant in the case of Cadet Wilson, but disapproved in my case, on the ground that the punishment was not severe enough. Therefore, Cadet W. served his punishment and I did not serve mine, as there was no authority vested in the President to increase it.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
- Yes. - So you're saying - working for me is punishment? - As far as I'm concerned, this whole conversation's punishment.美剧 · 《Suits》
And administering a very freewheeling form of a corporal punishment, and administering a very freewheeling form of a corporal punishment,演讲 · 《The sibling bond ~ Jeffrey Kluger》