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  • "You had best guard that tongue, ser." Ser Barristan did not like this Gerris Drinkwater, nor would he allow him to vilify Daenerys.†   (source)
  • At the very least, the town would be vilified, a soiled mark on the map where few would want to settle or do business.†   (source)
  • After the alleged kidnapping of four youths who were staying in the Diepkloof house and the death ofone of them, Winnie had first been vilified by a whispering campaign and was then charged with four counts of kidnapping and one of assault.†   (source)
  • She had been married to a Tutsi who had been killed years ago, and she had been vilified as a traitor by radicals on her hill.†   (source)
  • However, it's my job to protect our government from false vilification, unfounded accusations that could severely damage the country.†   (source)
  • His new vice president, Andrew Johnson, has just delivered a red-faced, drunken, twenty-minute ramble vilifying the South that has left the crowd squirming, embarrassed by Johnson's inebriation.†   (source)
  • I watched him covertly, wondering whether I should say, "You must be prepared: this new association will not be taken at face value, there will be vilifiers who will say it was done not for you, but for your mother, who will seek to destroy your peace"; but then I thought resolutely, I will not take the fire from his resolve or sow suspicion between them, and so I held my peace.†   (source)
  • I needed someone whom I could visibly and openly hate, so I joined my classmates in vilifying Bobby Bentley and soon the freshmen despised him as much as the upperclassmen did.†   (source)
  • Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign of vilification.†   (source)
  • When I saw that they were not really going to believe that men would go to such lengths to vilify Father Coffield, I called Dick Gregory, who happened to be at his home in Chicago.†   (source)
  • His biographer believes that "probably no man in history has been more vilified than he was at this time."†   (source)
  • Stoker vilified vampyres, which has caused our kind endless petty troubles with humans?'†   (source)
  • We said the Lord's Prayer, vilified the Soo-preme Court once more, then broke up the meeting.†   (source)
  • But now the harsh terms of vilification and the desertion of former friends hurt him deeply.†   (source)
  • He was vilified unmercifully by the local press and residents.†   (source)
  • Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.†   (source)
  • 'To oppose our leaders,' said the orator, his voice calm but rising, 'is to vilify them, and, by so doing, to remove the care one must accord the precious gift called life.†   (source)
  • Subsection V. IN THE SUMMER and fall of 1800 the question of who was to lead the nation rapidly became a contest of personal vilification surpassing any presidential election in American history.†   (source)
  • The powerful magnates of the Beef Trust responded by vilifying Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair, dismissing their accusations, and launching a public relations campaign to persuade the American people that nothing was wrong.†   (source)
  • The most vicious assaults, however, were aimed at Hamilton, whom Freneau delighted in vilifying, and to add to the insults, such diatribes were nearly always accompanied by lavish praise for Jefferson.†   (source)
  • A mass meeting at Lawrence had vilified the Senator and speedily reported resolutions sharply condemning his position.†   (source)
  • The victory strengthened my belief that a man could speak the truth to his elders, to the new scribes and pharisees, and not be crucified or vilified because of it.†   (source)
  • Nine out of twenty-two Democratic papers in the state are unbounded in vilifying him with such epithets as traitor, apostate, scoundrel, barn burner, abolitionist and free-soiler ....I am afraid Benton will be defeated.†   (source)
  • He continued to shake his head happily as Pilar went on vilifying and Robert Jordan knew that it was all right again now.†   (source)
  • Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.†   (source)
  • He cursed and vilified the hilltop.†   (source)
  • Do you want to have poor Rhoda misunderstood and vilified to the same way?†   (source)
  • Let us not vilify but raise it to that standard.†   (source)
  • Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified—yes: I admit it: I have had to vilify you.†   (source)
  • This instructive entertainment took place after second breakfast, and, as Joachim likewise informed him, it was not permitted, or was at the very least frowned upon, for anyone to absent himself—and it was therefore considered an amazing license that Settembrini, who surely was fluent in German as few others were, not only had never attended these lectures, but also vilified them at length.†   (source)
  • Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified—yes: I admit it: I have had to vilify you.†   (source)
  • Vilify me, strike me, be malicious!†   (source)
  • It is time then that all should cease to treat her as alien, and even adverse—cease to denounce and vilify all and everything connected with her accession—cease to thwart and oppose the remaining steps for its consummation; or where such efforts are felt to be unavailing, at least to embitter the hour of reception by all the most ungracious frowns of aversion and words of unwelcome.†   (source)
  • Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves.†   (source)
  • The gentleman next door had been vilified by Nicholas; rudely stigmatised as a dotard and an idiot; and for these attacks upon his understanding, Mrs Nickleby was, in some sort, accountable.†   (source)
  • Their Maker's image, answered Michael, then
    Forsook them, when themselves they vilified
    To serve ungoverned Appetite; and took
    His image whom they served, a brutish vice,
    Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.†   (source)
  • 1] Consequences from Qualities of Animals in
    Generall
    a] Consequences from Vision,
    OPTIQUES
    b] Consequences from Sounds,
    MUSIQUE
    c] Consequences from the rest of the senses
    2] Consequences from Qualities of Men in Speciall
    a] Consequences from Passions of Men,
    ETHIQUES
    b] Consequences from Speech,
    i) In Magnifying, Vilifying, etc.
    POETRY
    ii) In Persuading,
    RHETORIQUE
    iii) In Reasoning,
    LOGIQUE
    iv) In Contracting,
    The Science of
    JUST and UNJUST
    B. Consequences from the Accidents of Politique Bodies; which is
    called POLITIQUES, and CIVILL PHILOSOPHY
    1.†   (source)
  • Now, as both of these gentlemen were industrious in taking every opportunity of recommending themselves to the widow, they apprehended one certain method was, by giving her son the constant preference to the other lad; and as they conceived the kindness and affection which Mr Allworthy showed the latter, must be highly disagreeable to her, they doubted not but the laying hold on all occasions to degrade and vilify him, would be highly pleasing to her; who, as she hated the boy, must love all those who did him any hurt.†   (source)
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