Persecutor

Examples

• And the world if not a believer in the idea cannot be a philosopher, and must therefore be a persecutor of philosophers. Plato. The Republic.
• Every moment I feared to meet my persecutor. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Turning his head, Wegg beheld his persecutor, the ever-wakeful dustman, accoutred with fantail hat and velveteen smalls complete. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And, therefore, without shuddering or trembling, he heard the voice of his persecutor, as he drew near. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was the same persecutor that had followed him before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• From a mere sense of consistency, a persecutor is bound to show that the fallen man is a villain--otherwise he, the persecutor, is a wretch himself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He hid his face in his burning hands, and feebly bemoaned his own weakness, and the cruelty of his persecutors. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Don't tell me about persecutors and enemies; an honest woman always has friends and never is separated from her family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Oh, the accursed cruelty of these inhuman persecutors! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But looking on my left hand, I saw a horse walking softly in the field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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