Example Sentences

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When this coincidence was casually mentioned to the host of the Golden Age, he would have immolated us on the altar of his hospitality had we not discreetly retreated to the ship.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

You yourself have come to the altar an offering, yourself a victim; there you have immolated your salvation, your hope; there you have burned up your faith in those deadly fires.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

Don’t you look prematurely uneasy, and don’t go and make Robin think that I have immolated him at the altar of the salmon. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

But now, returning to the two alternatives regarding his friend's death: was this philo-Hellenic Emperor the man to have immolated Antinous for extispicium and then deified him?

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington