Wrongs

Examples

• Tucked away out of sight, I dare say, thought Jo, who could forgive her own wrongs, but hotly resented any insult offered her family. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Never, if Saint Antoine knew his own sufferings, insults, and wrongs! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I have done you many wrongs, my own. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Wreak your vengeance to the utmost, was my message to the green allies, for by night there will be none left to avenge your wrongs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• That man has some noble traits, he said to himself as he noticed this; he is moved by the wrongs of his country. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Spite o' all that, they can be set free for smaller wrongs than mine. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Was I to dismiss in a moment--not my own wrongs--what was I! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I have had so many griefs and wrongs, Joseph Sedley; I have been made to suffer so cruelly that I am almost made mad sometimes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Lawrence strikers did something more than insist upon their wrongs; they showed a disposition to right them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No communication--a--until--Miss Wickfield--a--redress from wrongs inflicted by consummate scoundrel--HEEP! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But the wrongs society has heaped upon me are treasured in this breast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was alone with her, when her forlorn young head drooped gently on one side, and all her earthly wrongs and sorrows ended. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Pardon, my son, the many wrongs I have done you; forget my bitter words and unkind treatment--take me, and govern me as you will. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Mr. Jarndyce, said Gridley with a rough sort of salutation, you bear your wrongs more quietly than I can bear mine. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Each day, each hour added to these exaggerated wrongs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The true poet is not one whit to be pitied, and he is apt to laugh in his sleeve when any misguided sympathizer whines over his wrongs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Does not every American Christian owe to the African race some effort at reparation for the wrongs that the American nation has brought upon them? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In spite of her general reticence, she needed some one who would recognize her wrongs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Don't try to go confounding the rights and wrongs of things in that way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have never forgotten your wrongs and their causes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You loathe them as you would a snake or a toad, yet you are indignant at their wrongs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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