Inflicted

Examples

• My impression is that the shock inflicted on me completely suspended my thinking and feeling power. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If I inflicted this shock upon him to-morrow morning, how could the immediate change in him be accounted for? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Little as I know of the law, I am certain that it can protect a woman from such treatment as that ruffian has inflicted on you to-day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was something horrible to Dorothea in the sensation which this unresponsive hardness inflicted on her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Here's your health, Sammy, and may you speedily vipe off the disgrace as you've inflicted on the family name. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The historian says: Ruffians, hired by Fulbert, fell upon Abelard by night, and inflicted upon him a terrible and nameless mutilation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The instrument with which the injury had been inflicted lay upon the carpet beside him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The stab was on the right side of the neck and from behind forward, so that it is almost impossible that it could have been self-inflicted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Is not all punishment inflicted beyond the merit of the offence, so much punishment of innocence? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• His fleets also took Algiers, and inflicted a number of reverses upon the Venetians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I threw open the window, reopening by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in the bedroom that morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• On Selden's part, no doubt, the wound inflicted was inconscient; he had never guessed her foolish secret; but Lily--Lily must have known! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I have known many men to escape the front through self-inflicted wounds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Since you are gone we have nothing but frostbites, chilblains, jaundice, gonorrhea, self-inflicted wounds, pneumonia and hard and soft chancres. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But Mecca resolved to avenge Badr, and at the battle of Uhud, near Medina, inflicted an indecisive defeat upon the Prophet's followers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The bullet had but inflicted a painful wound in one of the great shoulders. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The pain inflicted by this disappointment was tormenting and keen. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She must be under some sort of penance, inflicted either by the Campbells or herself. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The adjutant, looking up from the paper, What inflicted the wounds? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• No communication--a--until--Miss Wickfield--a--redress from wrongs inflicted by consummate scoundrel--HEEP! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He would keep the unfinished bliss of his own yearning even through the torture she inflicted upon him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The implacable animosity of Heyling, so far from being satiated by the success of his persecution, increased a hundredfold with the ruin he inflicted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• However, he inflicted a heavy loss upon the enemy; but not without loss in return. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That's what keeps you from being court-martialled for self-inflicted wounds, he said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Conflicting passions, long-cherished love, and self-inflicted disappointment, made her regard death alone as sufficient refuge for her woe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I started up--a knife was in my grasp; I made a plunge at his raised right arm, and inflicted a deep, wide wound in his hand. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Two have been fired and two wounds inflicted, so that each bullet can be accounted for. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• If there's a blow to be inflicted on you, you naturally think of your family. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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