lex talionis
Example Sentences
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It was an antiquated system which sought to inflict punishment for every mortal thing—it was the lex talionis of the Old Testament, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut
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
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
One is immediately struck, for example, by the similarity in the application of the lex talionis: Ham.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl
According to the very lex talionis, he has had what he deserves.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
