Wronged

Examples

• She wronged me again and again, and again and again I forgave her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When a woman has been seriously wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom is a broken bell wire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She not only sinned grievously against the Lord, but she wronged me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You shall know that you have wronged me, yet, I said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was sorely tempted to hint that he was now wronging her as she had wronged him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I say, with perfect sincerity, that I regret it, if I wronged you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Crispin, I have wronged you, but made reparation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You shall subdue the society which has grievously wronged you, to your own high spirit. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was true, she said to herself, that Mr. Casaubon had a debt to the Ladislaws--that he had to pay back what the Ladislaws had been wronged of. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A deceitful woman, a wronged man, a treacherous friend—a common enough tale, I think. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• If even you, that I have wronged so much, that never can forgive me, could only know what I suffer! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have been cruelly used and cruelly wronged. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But you,you above all, above my mother, had been wronged by me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• You had no right to speak against me to him when I have never wronged you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I have wronged her enough in fact; I have wronged her still more in intention. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• France had been wronged by Germania, or Italia was showing a proper spirit to Austria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A terrible struggle was going on in his mind, for it appeared to him almost impossible to forgive this man, who had wronged him so bitterly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I wouldn't trust myself to that woman, young and handsome as she is, if I had wronged her; no, not for twice my proprietor's money! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When men he has wronged, and on whom he has bestowed his insolence, are getting ready to be hanged, there is a death-bell ringing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have twice wronged you in my thoughts and again I ask your forgiveness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Then you wronged me; and upon my life and heart I can hardly bear to recognize that you have such ill thoughts of me! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I acknowledge I have wronged you deeply, and cannot palliate my conduct, but I can and will make reparation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You are well on your way to the poor wronged gentleman, and, with a fair sea voyage, and a fair land journey, you will be soon at his dear side. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• As little can I believe the narrative of his insolence to Apollo, where he says, 'Thou hast wronged me, O far-darter, most abominable of deities. Plato. The Republic.
• When fate wronged me, I had not the wisdom to remain cool: I turned desperate; then I degenerated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I came here a wronged woman--I came here robbed of my character and determined to claim it back. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Justinian was so moved to sudden emotion at this noble behavior on the part of the man he had wronged, that for the moment he was deprived of speech. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is not by protestations that I shall endeavour to convince you I am wronged; it is not by telling you that my affections are steady. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If you had spoken out at the time, you might have left me, Rachel, knowing that you had cruelly wronged an innocent man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is the atonement that she is longing to make, poor girl, after having innocently and inevitably wronged him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Edited by Faye