lex talionis
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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
Cf. the Mosaic lex talionis recorded in Leviticus, 24. 17-21.
From The Twelve Tables by Anonymous
To this reverse of fortune the ousted ones retort with the brutal lex talionis: an egg for an egg, a cell for a cell.
From The Mason-Bees by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
It is my own dear daughter, the wife of Paul Wesselenyi, who, driven from her fatherland, on her knees implored me, as I loved her, to let the lex talionis assert its rights.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r
To the Hindu, on the other hand, the lex talionis is a law of life still enforced.
From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by Jones, John P. (John Peter)
