Persecuted

Examples

• His family persecuted him; persecuted the girl, as well. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Ever since her womanhood almost, had she not been persecuted and undervalued? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Jesuits, in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He persecuted Greek literature, about which, until late in life, he was totally ignorant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have been persecuted and annoyed by scoundrels of late, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It must not be watched for heresy or persecuted for any ideas it may express. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Persecuted virtue never looked more bewitchingly wretched. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It asserts the liberty of conscience, in behalf of the Anabaptists, the Quakers, and other sectarians that had been persecuted. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Charles persecuted with some vigour, but in 1556, as we have told, he handed over the task to his son Philip (Philip II). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For the good King Maximilianus was become converted unto the new faith, and the Christians rejoiced because they were no longer persecuted. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Thus are people persecuted by dragomen, whose sole ambition in life is to get ahead of each other. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I was prepared to be persecuted for not persecuting--not persecuting, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Is there more to be added to this plain statement of facts--to this touching picture of a Christian persecuted by the world? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I won't desert you because you have been persecuted, or insult you because--because Major Dobbin chooses to do so. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Catholic religion and the Irish language were outcast and persecuted things in the darkness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have been harassed and persecuted. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is your own affair if you wish to be persecuted and humiliated; but were I you I should assert my manhood and defy my enemies. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Save us, O, save thy persecuted suppliants! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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