Victims

Examples

• The measure of our self-consciousness will more or less determine whether we are to be the victims or the masters of change. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Lily had never conceived of these victims of fate otherwise than in the mass. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Carthoris, Kantos Kan, Tars Tarkas, Hor Vastus, and Xodar might even now be the victims of Zat Arras' assassins, or else his prisoners. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• These latter, the rumour had it, they sacrificed to some terrible god in an orgy which ended in the eating of their victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The tale is that he who has tasted the entrails of a single human victim minced up with the entrails of other victims is destined to become a wolf. Plato. The Republic.
• For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato. The Republic.
• The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Her former lover had been one of the first victims of the disease. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We are all the victims of circumstances, and I the greatest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Animals are tied or tethered by it and led by it, and man, himself, is one of its victims. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The Holy Therns abide upon the outer slopes of these grim hills, facing the broad world from which they harvest their victims and their spoils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His victims dare not hit back. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The balance of the frightful herd was now circling rapidly and with bewildering speed about the little knot of victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The sound of the trumpet wakes Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• For my part, it was of your victims I was thinking when I inquired after the wounded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Their journey to London simply ended in their becoming the victims of another defeat. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But statesmen who had decided that at last men were to be the masters of their own history, instead of its victims, would face politics in a truly revolutionary manner. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Victims, reiterated Carriston firmly; or, if you will, lovers, for the terms are synonymous. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The mortal maid on the shore is helpless against the siren who loves her prey: such victims are floated back dead from their adventure. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. Plato. The Republic.
• The _victims_ lack no attentions, I promise you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Instead of exercising their own authority, they use these boys, who are Mr. Kipling's heroes, to punish the two victims. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• You sometimes say to me that all the Scotch, your countrymen, are the victims of prejudice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A people without written language, without art, without homes, without love; the victims of eons of the horrible community idea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Leaping and clawing, they mowed down the warriors with their powerful paws, turning for an instant to rend their victims with frightful fangs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• What need of bars, indeed, to keep those poor victims from rushing into the arena which the edict of the gods had appointed as their death place! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Typed by Hector