Persecution

Examples

• Thou hast spoken the Jew, said Rebecca, as the persecution of such as thou art has made him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Under his rule were carried out the dragonnades, a peculiarly malignant and effectual form of persecution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 277 the reigning monarch had him crucified and his body, for some unknown reason, flayed, and there began a fierce persecution of his adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• However, one or two young men remained upright, and by constant persecution we wormed out of them some little information. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If I had been driven to this country by the persecution of my government, I should not have kept those reasons a secret from you or from any one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In one quarter of an hour you shall be free from all my persecution; but, give me that time, pray do! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• 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.
• Her story quite affected me--'pon my word and honour, it did--never was such a cruel persecution borne so angelically, I may say. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Privilege of certain types had gone, many tyrannies, much religious persecution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You should read history--look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The test in the persecution was that the Christian was required to offer sacrifice to the emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So this was the beginning of Sarkoja's persecution! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What can it mean, this relentless persecution? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Even the angelic gentleness of Mr. Godfrey was, you see, beginning to give way at last under the persecution inflicted on him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Great numbers of his most sober and valuable subjects were driven abroad by his religious persecutions, taking arts and industries with them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her persecutions ought to be ended: she ought to return to the society of which she was an ornament. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He does in wars, in racial and religious persecutions; he did in the Spain of the Inquisition; he does in the American lynching. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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