Outrages
[autreidʒz]
Examples
- I remonstrate against these outrages upon reason and truth, of course, but it does no good. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Information of both outrages was communicated to the police, and the needful investigations were pursued, I believe, with great energy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The English people were roused to a pitch of extreme indignation by these outrages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But when he went out campaigning before the people he talked only of three-cent fares and the tax outrages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My daily vows rose for revenge--a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Almost the first complaints made to me were these two outrages. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages on the feelings and affections,--the separating of families, for example. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She supported them, and protected those who perpetrated outrages on the Europeans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The horrid cruelties and outrages that once and a while find their way into the papers,--such cases as Prue's, for example,--what do they come from? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Editor: Louise