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  • In 1966, I was a pariah.†   (source)
  • "Or better," I continued, the pent-up annoyance flowing freely now, "say that person also did a wide range of bizarre things — from saving your life under impossible circumstances one day to treating you like a pariah the next, and he never explained any of that, either, even after he promised.†   (source)
  • Within weeks, the non-transparent officeholders were treated like pariahs.†   (source)
  • I recalled when I first entered school in Watts, how I had been virtually written off, pushed into a corner with building blocks and treated like a pariah; how in Garvey I had been heaved out of classes and, later in high school, forced to drop out and labeled a failure!†   (source)
  • As a special favor they were even given their own separate Pariah Bishop.†   (source)
  • I'm going to hide out long enough to watch Lance Nicholas Dunne become a worldwide pariah, to watch Nick be arrested, tried, marched off to prison, bewildered in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.†   (source)
  • Even if they were society's pariahs, they were going to be angels in a marble white heaven and sit on the right hand of Jesus, the Son of God.†   (source)
  • Maybe he had just remembered he was kissing a girl who five minutes ago had been a social pariah.†   (source)
  • He had planned to return to his pariah after the wedding, but he was appalled at the hardness of the inhabitants of Macondo, who were prospering in the midst of scandal, subject to the natural law, without baptizing their children or sanctifying their festivals.†   (source)
  • A man could become a zampolit and be a pariah among his peers.†   (source)
  • Associate with a pariah, you become an outcast too.†   (source)
  • They gave him lists that detailed the locations of abandoned cars along the Bronx River, a major dump site for stolen, joyridden, semistripped, gas-siphoned and pariah-dog vehicles.†   (source)
  • The reason these women are pariahs is because they are women.†   (source)
  • You're not a pariah."†   (source)
  • People treat her like a pariah, so she becomes depressed.†   (source)
  • The conversation is pretty one-sided, but it's better than being scowled at, insulted, and generally treated like a pariah, which is what I'm used to from Sarah.†   (source)
  • It was people like the chaplain, he concluded, who were responsible for giving religion such a bad name and making pariahs out of them both.†   (source)
  • All he knows is that, here, no one wants to be with an honor student-a pariah— except maybe LaTisha, who has few alternatives.†   (source)
  • He knew he was a pariah, a no-good Cole who'd killed not only the Bennetts' son-in-law but the town's only doctor, and the guilt he felt was overwhelming.†   (source)
  • He still felt like a pariah, but he was such a legend, for all the wrong reasons, that people wanted to say hello.†   (source)
  • Hell, no. My father and mother were as agnostic as any two people could be without being branded godless pariahs.†   (source)
  • She was pariah, then, and knew it.†   (source)
  • For me, they sat uneasily beside the fact that Rwanda's government had become a pariah in several quarters.†   (source)
  • "You've turned him into a pariah.†   (source)
  • I had this image that the Ondaatjes were absolute pariahs.†   (source)
  • Just across the street, Ford's Theatre has instantly gone from a Washington cultural hub to a pariah; the good fortune of having Lincoln attend Our American Cousin will soon put the theater out of business.†   (source)
  • Her name was Maria (rhyming in the Southern fashion with "pariah") Hunt, and at fifteen I had been so feverish in my infatuation for her that it seems in retrospect a small-scale madness.†   (source)
  • A dog with an experience like that could become a pariah in the truest sense of the word.†   (source)
  • Especially when he's a pariah in the community.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he made as if to chase her away, bending down to pick up an imaginary stone, the way people did here when they wanted to frighten away a pariah dog.†   (source)
  • …dweller in the silent and most secret places, well-omened, and gentle, all-knowing, swift as thought, wearer of skulls, possessed of power, the twilight, invincible leader, pitiful one, opener of the way before those lost, granter of favors, teacher, valor in the form of woman, chameleon-hearted, practitioner of austerities, magician, pariah, deathless and eternal … Âryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40) From Hellwell to Heaven he went, there to commune with the gods.†   (source)
  • Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.   (source)
  • I feel like a pariah when I walk through the streets.†   (source)
  • If I find you on my property tomorrow I'll have you castrated like the pariah dog that you are!†   (source)
  • I'd be the biggest pariah in the world."†   (source)
  • And it wasn't like I was a pariah, I was just…. insecure, for sure.†   (source)
  • What he didn't expect was to be treated like a pariah.†   (source)
  • Anyone who attempted to expose him would become a pariah.†   (source)
  • "Or better," I continued, the pent-up annoyance flowing freely now, "say that person also did a wide range of bizarre things — from saving your life under impossible circumstances one day to treating you like a pariah the next, and he never explained any of that, either, even after he promised.†   (source)
  • Pariah kites dropped into nearby trees, to supervise the supervision of the last rites of the dead elephant.†   (source)
  • "You'd be my pariah, and I'd love you no matter what, and I'd shield you from everything," Desi said.†   (source)
  • Cecily and her lot have never treated Ann as more than a servant, but since our unfortunate attempt to pass her off in society as a duke's daughter of Russian blood last Christmas, Ann has become a complete pariah.†   (source)
  • Quite apart from the claims against us, we would become a pariah in the eyes of much of the civilized world.†   (source)
  • One of Zainab's friends at school was the daughter of a senior official who was dragged out of a meeting on television and then executed; the daughter became a pariah.†   (source)
  • I am a pariah, at church, at school.†   (source)
  • He identified himself, begged them to give him refuge in that house which during his nights as a pariah he had remembered as the last redoubt of safety left for him in life.†   (source)
  • …courtyard, like a pig drowning,
    a vattacka being fried
    a bone shaking hands
    a frog singing at Carnegie Hall.
    Like a crow swimming in milk,
    like a nose being hit by a mango
    like the crowd at the Royal-Thomian match,
    a womb full of twins, a pariah dog
    with a magpie in its mouth
    like the midnight jet from Casablanca
    like Air Pakistan curry,
    a typewriter on fire, like a spirit in the gas
    which cooks your dinner,
    like a hundred pappadans being crunched, like someone
    uselessly…†   (source)
  • Except, of course, Morris Panov, but Mo was a pariah in the eyes of the government; he had called the official killers by their rightful names: incompetents and murderers.†   (source)
  • …spot of earth which might have been created and set aside by Heaven itself, Grandfather said, as a theatre for violence and injustice and bloodshed and all the satanic lusts of human greed and cruelty, for the last despairing fury of all the pariah-interdict and all the doomed—a little island set in a smiling and fury-lurked and incredible indigo sea, which was the halfway point between what we call the jungle and what we call civilization, halfway between the dark inscrutable…†   (source)
  • At the end of the examination, the pariahs were made to stand before the class while Nurse gave a lecture about how filthy those little girls were and how they had to be shunned.†   (source)
  • Everyone knew his affections lay with Carreen, so the news that he was to marry the neighborhood pariah instead sat ill upon them.†   (source)
  • So it was four of them who rode the two horses through that night and then across the bright frosty North Mississippi Christmas day, in something very like pariah-hood passing the plantation houses with sprigs of holly thrust beneath the knockers on the doors and mistletoe hanging from the chandeliers and bowls of eggnog and toddy on tables in the halls and the blue unwinded wood smoke standing above the plastered chimneys of the slave quarters, to the River and the steamboat.†   (source)
  • He admitted now that so long as he stayed in Gopher Prairie he would remain a pariah.†   (source)
  • "What do you mean by saying you're a pariah?"†   (source)
  • But Kim had danced off ere the end of the sentence, dodging pariah dogs and hungry acquaintances.†   (source)
  • He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights.†   (source)
  • Otherwise, Clyde might appear to be a pariah, one who had been from the first a drifter and a waster and was now purposely being avoided by all who knew him.†   (source)
  • Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.†   (source)
  • All over the plain, cattle and buffaloes were grazing, and when the little boys in charge of the herds saw Mowgli they shouted and ran away, and the yellow pariah dogs that hang about every Indian village barked.†   (source)
  • I'm what they call a pariah, I guess.†   (source)
  • For along with her recovery to some extent from her original shock and horror, she was now thinking somewhat differently of him—that after all it was for love of her, perhaps, that he had slain Roberta and made himself the pariah and victim that he now was.†   (source)
  • Miles Bjornstam, the pariah "Red Swede," had brought his circular saw and portable gasoline engine to the house, to cut the cords of poplar for the kitchen range.†   (source)
  • …every physiologist would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had he beheld at Toulon, during the hours of repose, which were for Jean Valjean hours of revery, this gloomy galley-slave, seated with folded arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by civilization, and regarding heaven with severity.†   (source)
  • I would lay a wager, that amongst the castes of India there are amazing variations of language, and that there is almost as much difference between the language of the pariah and that of the Brahmin as there is in their dress.†   (source)
  • Let us look,' said the lama, and he led from the white road across the fields; walking into a very hornets' nest of pariah dogs.†   (source)
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