lex talionis

Example Sentences

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And there is something just in this lex talionis.

From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various

According to the very lex talionis, he has had what he deserves.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

Our heroine, being at once ardent and philosophical, put the lex talionis into force by falling in love with one of her mother's lodgers, a sprig of the legal profession.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

The reader will remember how, partly inspired by his affection for Robert Grace, and partly by resentment over a small office, Franklin applied the sharp edge of the lex talionis to Jemmy Read.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

In fact, it seems that a savage lex talionis is wholly satisfying to the feudists on both sides.

From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert