Hurting

Examples

• There was an insult in Gudrun's protective patronage that was really too hurting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But the wall--the hedge--it is such hard work climbing, and you are too slender and young to help me without hurting yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I've gone blindly on, hurting myself and other people, for the sake of money. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They are all of 'em as low and cruel to each other as they can be; there's no use in your suffering to keep from hurting them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• A man with the gout in his right hand--and everywhere else--can't expect to get through a Double Gloucester without hurting himself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• However, Meyler spoiled my preferment with Ebrington by hurting his lordship's vanity and thus damping all his ardour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It is possible thou wert hurt there once and now there is a scar that makes a further hurting. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If the conductor be good and of sufficient bigness, the fluid passes through it without hurting it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Is your wound hurting you, Maurice? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Large quantities of shoes were made at reduced prices, but complaints were made as to the nails penetrating into the shoe and hurting the feet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It's so simple you can eat it, and being soft, it will slip down without hurting your sore throat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I am sure, rather than run the risk of hurting Mr. and Mrs. Cole, you would stay a little longer than you might wish. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I hate hurting a woman's feelings, Betteredge! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If he judges right, instead of hurting the great body of the people, he renders them a most important service. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Don't you be afraid of hurting the boy, he says. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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