Injuring

Examples

• And do you suppose that I ask these questions with any design of injuring you in the argument? Plato. The Republic.
• May I fold it over this shoulder without injuring your dress? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He asked her to let him study it, and shortly had made a frame on an entirely different plan that would do the same work without injuring the threads. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I wish Tamsie were not such a confoundedly good little woman, said Wildeve, so that I could be faithful to you without injuring a worthy person. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But are you not afraid to leave the horse in his power now, since he has every interest in injuring it? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It extinguishes electrical fires without injuring insulation or apparatus and without injury to the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I have not shown any backwardness to assist Benny, where it could be done without injuring another. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We were able to kill them without injuring the horses. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We are but preventing her from injuring another. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But if they abstained from injuring one another, then they might act together better? Plato. The Republic.
• The old method of straining honey has long since been replaced by the centrifugal honey extractor, which simply empties the cells of honey, not injuring the combs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Even in my father's time, we did a world of wrong, injuring every human creature who came between us and our pleasure, whatever it was. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There was a serious pleading in Lydgate's tone, as if he felt that she would be injuring him by any fantastic delays. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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