penally
- a word derived from penal.
Example Sentences
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Remorse is a damage, in which a man is penally mulcted; but this of mine was no more than a price, fairly and squarely agreed upon, which I was prepared to pay.
From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
By the committing of magisterial mistakes I am personally and penally committed—I prepare for my trial by calling in the assistance of the tailor and the perfumer—I am resolved to die like a gentleman.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick
This right of academical citizenship continues five years, provided it be not voluntarily relinquished or penally forfeited.
From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William
His reign is retributive, and that not merely as penally recompensing evil, but as rewarding the faith and hope of those who waited for Him.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander
On one occasion he stopped to watch a Punch and Judy show, And heard, as Punch was being treated penally, That phantom curate laughing all hyaenally.
From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
