Cowed Sentence Examples

Cowed by the bold seizure of their leaders, the states of Holland submitted.

But the nation was no longer to be cowed.

The officers ' uniforms cowed the most offensive of the rowdies, but I don't think the terror was very deep-seated.

The Arabs were beaten down, and the renegades had gained most of what they fought for when the aristocracy was cowed.

The cowed battalion duly went into battle, only to be again severely mauled in the German killing zone.

Richelieu had sent to the block the first noble of France, the last of a family illustrious for seven centuries, the feudal head of the nobility of Languedoc; then, unmoved by threats or entreaties, inexorable as fate itself, he cowed all opposition by his relentless vengeance.

The board has been cowed by the volume of the data and the sheer grind of the presentation into a stupefied silence.

The monarch was cowed, accepted moderate terms, and, yielding to Savonarola's remonstrances, left Florence on the 24th of November.

The mutineers were completely cowed; the king of Delhi was taken and reserved for trial; and his sons were shot by Catain Hodson, after unconditional surrender, an act which has since been the theme of much reprobation, but which commended itself at the time to Hodson's comrades as wise and justifiable.

His organ United Ireland declared that the new courts must be cowed into giving satisfactory decisions.

The father wa.s manifestly a man of great energy who cowed his unruly nobles by murder, forced the Orospedans to recognize his superiority, swept away the Suevic kingdom which had lingered in the north-west, and checked the raids of the Basques.

The Landtag of Brandenburg was not cowed so easily into submission, but an increase of revenue was obtained, and the stubborn struggle which ensued in Prussia ended in a victory for the ruler.

The papal threats were now too urgent to be disregarded, and the cowed signory entreated Savonarola to put an end to his sermons.

This vigorous action on the part of the king seems to have cowed all Warbecks supporters on English soil.

For the moment the Jews were cowed, and next day they went submissively to greet the troops coming from Caesarea.

Having cowed the disaffected elements in the state, he turned his attention to foreign enemies.

But though these measures cowed the Poles, they failed to achieve their main purpose.

When Danton was arrested, Legendre at first defended him, but was soon cowed and withdrew his defence.

They were good fighters until they were cowed by the treatment of the Russians, who practically reduced them to slavery.

The wild tribes of the Caucasus were cowed by the Roman arms, and Mithradates himself fled across the Black Sea to Panticapaeum (modern Kertch).

They were cowed, as they said, by that disciple and limb of the fiend called La Pucelle, that used false enchantments and sorcery.

Cowed by the show of armed force, and remembering the fate of Hastings, the two assemblies received the claim with silence which gave consent.

Already before Warbecks arrival Poynings had arrested the earl of Kildare, Simn.els old supporter, cowed some of the Irish by military force, and bought over others by promises of subsidies and pensions.

Enclosed by Hanriot's troops and thoroughly cowed, the Convention decreed the arrest of the Committee of Twelve and of twenty-two principal Girondins.

His subjects remained faithful to him for a good while, as he put an end to the Norman invasions which had desolated the kingdom for two centuries, and cowed those barbarians, much to the benefit of France.

The cowed inhabitants had been trained out of all habit of acting for themselves by the imperial despotism, and could only flee or submit.

The upper classes are said to have suffered less than the poor; but the kings daughter Joan and two archbishops of Canterbury were among the victims. The long continuance of the visitation, which as a rule took six or nine months to work out its virulence in any particular spot, seems to have cowed and demoralized society.

But, when Pompey himself arrived at Damascus, Antipater, who pulled the strings and exploited the claims of Hyrcanus, realized that Rome and not the Arabs, who were cowed by the threats of Scaurus, was the ruler of the East.

Hitherto, according to all evidence, she had shown herself on all occasions, as on all subsequent occasions she indisputably showed herself, the most fearless, the most keen-sighted, the most ready-witted, the most high-gifted and high-spirited of women; gallant and generous, skilful and practical, never to be cowed by fortune, never to be cajoled by craft; neither more unselfish in her ends nor more unscrupulous in her practice than might have been expected from her training and her creed.

The Syracusans had been at first thoroughly cowed; but they were cowed no longer, and they even plucked up courage to sally out and fight the enemy on the high ground of Epipolae.