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  • Mishka exclaimed in vindication.†   (source)
  • If anything vindicated us in the way we reacted to Cassie's behavior, it was her own recognition of how far she had gone.†   (source)
  • No, you will vindicate them.†   (source)
  • But when the nearly all-white jury pronounced him guilty, after fifteen months of waiting for vindication, he was shocked, paralyzed.†   (source)
  • When he saw the flash of hurt cross her face, he felt the slightest bit of vindication.†   (source)
  • He boasted that the reversal had vindicated him completely.†   (source)
  • Grant said, "You must feel vindicated.†   (source)
  • Rose flashed me a look, perplexity mixed with vindication.†   (source)
  • It was forced on me as I sat chilled through the chapel service, that this probably vindicated the rules of Devon after all, wintery Devon.†   (source)
  • When he spoke about Robbie, which wasn't often, it was with a touch of self-righteous vindication.†   (source)
  • It was support and vindication; it was sustenance and sum.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brant came out of the inner office looking vindicated.†   (source)
  • When the news of Annie's ancestors went out the next day, Mae felt at least partially vindicated.†   (source)
  • It'll make a bunch of people feel vindicated, but it won't fix anything.†   (source)
  • The people of the Hills vindicated me.†   (source)
  • If Amy left a clue in a public place, she always taped it to the underside of things, in between the wadded gum and the dust, and she was always vindicated, because no one likes to look at the underside of things.†   (source)
  • I should have been embarrassed, but I felt an odd sort of satisfaction that often comes with vindication.†   (source)
  • He was glad to have stuck it out in the fog and felt vindicated somehow.†   (source)
  • It pleases me that, by your actions, you have vindicated my foster father's decision to adopt you into Durgrimst Ingeitum.†   (source)
  • On page 3 she writes: "I truthfully feel none of us has anyone to blame etc." Thus vindicating those who bore influence in her formative years.†   (source)
  • It was clear that the ban on the organization had effectively expired, a vindication of our long struggle and our resolute adherence to principle.†   (source)
  • To the greater disadvantage of his wife, as she was entering into a sad maturity with her somber long dresses, her oldfashioned medals, and her out-of-place pride, the concubine seemed to be bursting with a second youth, clothed in gaudy dresses of natural silk and with her eyes tiger-striped with a glow of vindication.†   (source)
  • I had attended the ceremony against his vehement opposition, and he was feeling vindicated and authoritarian.†   (source)
  • Vindicated by confirmation of the death of Objective Lake James, Adam's team loaded back into the helicopters that night and escorted his body from eastern Afghanistan to the military airbase at Bagram, where uniformed servicemen and women, hundreds this time, waited on the tarmac.†   (source)
  • "See, I told you it was hard," Cristian said, feeling vindicated.†   (source)
  • No matter what the wording, Belle Block had been vindicated.†   (source)
  • I consider this a vindication.†   (source)
  • He beamed as if the news vindicated him.†   (source)
  • And I felt pretty good, pretty vindicated because even though it was just a matter of pure luck that things had gone this way, I hadn't blown it for the band after all.†   (source)
  • Let them go ahead, they'd find that none of the charges were true and I'd be vindicated.†   (source)
  • In response, George Johnstone, a dashing figure who had once served as governor of West Florida, delivered one of the longest, most vehement declamations of the night, exclaiming, "Every Machiavellian policy is now to be vindicated towards the people of America."†   (source)
  • "Ah ha," cried the Deuxième associate, relishing a minor triumph of self-vindication.†   (source)
  • Security Police matters were going to have to wait until the next day, even if the report could help vindicate Lisbeth.†   (source)
  • Its glaring inadequacy was on her side, a perfect vindication.†   (source)
  • Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right.†   (source)
  • It had been easy to watch Mr. Thompson's gulping smiles and his repeated cries of "That's my girl!" uttered with glances of triumph at his assistants, the triumph of a man whose judgment in trusting her had been vindicated.†   (source)
  • Pepe had convinced him that the trial would vindicate them and they would be treated as heroes, and for a while it seemed as if his predictions would come to pass.†   (source)
  • AT FIRST Lia thought she had vanquished Alessandro, as if action were vindication, as if the declaration of war were proof of her argument, or, rather, her brother's argument, that a war was necessary.†   (source)
  • Have these Papers vindicated the Constitution from the aspersions thrown on it?†   (source)
  • "I am not like him!" he yelled helplessly, vindicating himself to any who would listen.†   (source)
  • Four: a spectacular vindication of the principle that each individual coin spun individually (he spins one) is as likely to come down heads as tails and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does.†   (source)
  • And I wanted to see the dolphins vindicated, but that was of secondary importance then.†   (source)
  • And here, here in this courtroom, we have seen vindicated—(A few people leave.†   (source)
  • He was vindicated even though there were officers senior to him in line of command who were not even wounded.†   (source)
  • I could be vindicated.†   (source)
  • Not even a mutual friend—only Miss Crail in the library, whose hatred of him had been vindicated by his spectacular departure.†   (source)
  • Well, you're vindicated.†   (source)
  • Yet, as they approached the doors, the fear held in check so many days and nights rose in him again, and he thought how he would stand tonight, so high, and all alone, to vindicate the testimony that had fallen from his lips, that God had called him to preach.†   (source)
  • And I have not the slightest doubt that good men from everywhere in this country, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Golden Gate to the harbors along the Atlantic, will rally now together in this cause to vindicate the freedom of all Americans.†   (source)
  • Some were ultimately vindicated by a return to popularity; many were not.†   (source)
  • You must vindicate yourself and fight this libel
  • ...they had nothing else to vindicate them...   (source)
    vindicate = show they were right
  • But it also made him feel vindicated in his labor.†   (source)
  • In these dreams, Nana cackled with delight and vindication.†   (source)
  • Jenny and I sat up in bed to behold our vindication.†   (source)
  • She seemed personally vindicated when I scuttled out on Tanner's floor.†   (source)
  • But vindication has no power over guilt.†   (source)
  • Van Buren covets vindication in the eyes of the law as much as we do.†   (source)
  • We need a court-sanctioned vindication for our position in this matter.†   (source)
  • The only good I took from that time was a measure of vindication about little Pari, who by now must have grown into a young woman.†   (source)
  • Does he wish to winkle her out of jail, vindicated as a spotless innocent, and then marry her himself?†   (source)
  • The strange thing was, the girl's fall from grace ought to have pleased Mariam, brought her a sense of vindication.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel vindicated.†   (source)
  • A savage and thoughtless curiosity prompted her to rip the letter from its envelope—she read it in the hall after Polly had let her in—and though the shock of the message vindicated her completely, this did not prevent her from feeling guilty.†   (source)
  • Thus, in the ballroom of the Metropol Hotel on the twenty-first of June 1926, was the heretic, Galileo of Galilei, vindicated by a ping, a splat, a smash, a thunk, a thump, and a thud.†   (source)
  • He wants her to be vindicated.†   (source)
  • And though Briony felt vindicated by the reaction of the adults, and was experiencing the onset of a sweet and inward rapture, she was also pleased to be down on the sofa with her mother, partially screened by the standing men from her sister's red-eyed contempt.†   (source)
  • Miss Geer looked vindicated.†   (source)
  • Stanton refused to leave the office and was vindicated when the Senate voted that Johnson's actions were illegal.†   (source)
  • When, the following day, Adams came to the assembly to present his letter of credence, it was as sweet a moment of triumph and vindication as he had ever known.†   (source)
  • He still nursed wounds of defeat; he could brood over past insults; he longed for vindication, and for gratitude for so much that he had done and the sacrifices he had made.†   (source)
  • Not for the power or for vindication, but because we, with the given circumstance of our origin, could only thus find transcendence?†   (source)
  • Shouldering my way to the side I stood in a doorway and watched them move, feeling a certain vindication as now I thought of the message that had brought me here.†   (source)
  • They were vindicated; the program was correct, events were progressing in their predetermined direction, history was on their side, and Harlem loved them.†   (source)
  • Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right- -not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world.†   (source)
  • For the continued political success of many of those who withstood the pressures of public opinion, and the ultimate vindication of the rest, enables us to maintain our faith in the long-run judgment of the people.†   (source)
  • He watches them desperately, out of the corner of his eye) We have seen vindicated— RADIO MAN (After an off-stage signal) Ladies and gentlemen, our program director in Chicago advises us that our time here is completed.†   (source)
  • Returning to Congress vindicated by the support he had received (despite the fact that most of his former colleagues from South Carolina had been defeated for re-election), he stood practically alone on the floor of the House as Members, new and old, scrambled to denounce the bill.†   (source)
  • …for himself was more important to him than his popularity with others—because his desire to win or maintain a reputation for integrity and courage was stronger than his desire to maintain his office—because his conscience, his personal standard of ethics, his integrity or morality, call it what you will—was strongerthan the pressures of public disapproval—because his faith that his course was the best one, and would ultimately be vindicated, outweighed his fear of public reprisal.†   (source)
  • And these are the stories of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators and the grace with which they endured them—the risks to their careers, the unpopularity of their courses, the defamation of their characters, and sometimes, but sadly only sometimes, the vindication of their reputations and their principles.†   (source)
  • She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made.†   (source)
  • Also, such childish displays do nothing but vindicate those elves who are opposed to you.†   (source)
  • Shall we be told then that this people [the Americans], whose greatness is the work of our hands, and whose insolence arises from our divisions, who have mistaken the lenity of this country for its weakness, and the reluctance to punish, for a want of power to vindicate the violated rights of British subjects—shall we be told that such a people can resist the powerful efforts of this nation ?†   (source)
  • I give him up to censure for this and I have a better right to do so, because my conscience, bears me witness that I never wrote a line against my enemies nor contributed one farthing to any writer for vindicating me or accusing my enemies.†   (source)
  • I began to hound him, think of nothing but getting him and thus vindicating myself, clear myself with the Mayor--who was a fool anyway--and, more important, clear myself with my men.†   (source)
  • All that I have done is try to vindicate the dolphins and show that there is possibly a shark inside.†   (source)
  • Vindicated, the man continued, but more slowly and with greater emphasis.†   (source)
  • She laughed; the sound was light and unconcerned, and he knew that he was vindicated.†   (source)
  • Peter drew himself to his full height as he vindicated himself.†   (source)
  • This must be what I have been waiting for,' he thought; 'I have Just been waiting to be vindicated.†   (source)
  • So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.†   (source)
  • And it isn't only she but a class of people who trust they will be justified, that their thoughts will be as substantial as the seven hills to build on, and by spreading their power they will have an eternal city for vindication on the day when other founders have gone down, bricks and planks, whose thoughts were not real and who built on soft swamp.†   (source)
  • I can imagine them as they rode, Henry still in the fierce repercussive flush of vindicated loyalty, and Bon, the wiser, the shrewder even if only from wider experience and a few more years of age, learning from Henry without Henry's being aware of it, what Sutpen had told him.†   (source)
  • That's my only vindication.†   (source)
  • …at which Sutpen obviously aimed, since the place as Sutpen planned it would have been almost as large as Jefferson itself at the time; that the little grim harried foreigner had singlehanded given battle to and vanquished Sutpen's fierce and overweening vanity or desire for magnificence or for vindication or whatever it was (even General Compson did not know yet) and so created of Sutpen's very defeat the victory which, in conquering, Sutpen himself would have failed to gain.†   (source)
  • …not quite stand up to) set out into a world which even in theory, the average geographical schooling of the normal boy of fourteen, he knew nothing about, and with a fixed goal in his mind which most men do not set up until the blood begins to slow at thirty or more and then only because the image represents peace and indolence or at least a crowning of vanity, not the vindication of a past affront in the person of a son whose seed is not yet, and would not be for years yet, planted.†   (source)
  • …design complete itself quite normally and naturally and successfully to the public eye, yet to my own in such fashion as to be a mockery and a betrayal of that little boy who approached that door fifty years ago and was turned away, for whose vindication the whole plan was conceived and carried forward to the moment of this choice, this second choice devolving out of that first one which in its turn was forced on me as the result of an agreement, an arrangement which I had entered in…†   (source)
  • They want to throw mud at you, prince, and you must be triumphantly vindicated.†   (source)
  • The honor of the scholastics will be vindicated in this regard as well, if I am not mistaken.†   (source)
  • There was an amount of pleasure to him in watching the wild march of this vindication.†   (source)
  • An act vindicated by a naval court of inquiry subsequently convened ashore.†   (source)
  • Also, the tall soldier received his vindication.†   (source)
  • In a defeat there would be a roundabout vindication of himself.†   (source)
  • They vindicated him against the base aspersion.†   (source)
  • He had displayed the one, and vindicated the other.†   (source)
  • She found the phrase that she could boldly offer as a vindication of the step she had taken.†   (source)
  • I was willing to have your choice, you know I was," said Nancy, in anxious self-vindication.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bulstrode was vindicated from any resemblance to her husband.†   (source)
  • She expected a vindication of Rosamond herself.†   (source)
  • Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him.†   (source)
  • Miss Bart made this announcement in the tone of one who presents, with careless assurance, a complete vindication; but Mrs. Fisher received it in a manner almost inconsequent.†   (source)
  • Jude did not pause to remember that, in the laconic words of the historian, "insulted Nature sometimes vindicated her rights" in such circumstances.†   (source)
  • So I thought it out at the time, feeling the need for vindication and desiring to be at peace with my conscience.†   (source)
  • God's justice had still to be vindicated before men: after the particular there still remained the general judgement.†   (source)
  • In the most ticklish situation he had managed— with good grace and quite impromptu—a vindication of drink; he had, moreover, just in passing, brought the conversation around to "civilization," of which, to be sure, little was evident in Mynheer Peeperkorn's primitive, menacing pose; and finally, by asking his question, had relaxed that grandiose pose—it would have been quite inappropriate to respond with a raised, clenched fist.†   (source)
  • But I knew, and his genius and my judgment were vindicated when he made that magnificent hit with his 'Forge.'†   (source)
  • The more he came to know them, the more they vindicated their superiority, the more they displayed their mysterious powers, the greater loomed their god-likeness.†   (source)
  • Once again, Lily had withdrawn from an ambiguous situation in time to save her self-respect, but too late for public vindication.†   (source)
  • But this vindication did not satisfy.†   (source)
  • Lily knew that Rosedale had overstated neither the difficulty of her own position nor the completeness of the vindication he offered: once Bertha's match in material resources, her superior gifts would make it easy for her to dominate her adversary.†   (source)
  • "I have worked, I do work," I cried impetuously, as though he were my judge and I required vindication, and at the same time very much aware of my arrant idiocy in discussing the subject at all.†   (source)
  • Nor was Darcy's vindication, though grateful to her feelings, capable of consoling her for such discovery.†   (source)
  • But I should not interfere in a matter so ridiculous, and attach importance to it, until you have vindicated yourself.†   (source)
  • No lower estimate could have vindicated the indefatigable zeal with which she scratched, and her unscrupulousness in digging up the choicest flower or vegetable, for the sake of the fat earthworm at its root.†   (source)
  • The vindication of the loved object is the best balm affection can find for its wounds:—"A man must have so much on his mind," is the belief by which a wife often supports a cheerful face under rough answers and unfeeling words.†   (source)
  • The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.†   (source)
  • A delicious broiled salmon smoked on a homely platter, hot venison steaks sent up their appetizing odors, and several dishes of cold meats, all of which were composed of game, had been set before the guests, in honor of the newly arrived visitors, and in vindication of the old soldier's hospitality.†   (source)
  • "Because my time," pursues Sir Leicester, "is wholly at your disposal with a view to the vindication of the outraged majesty of the law."†   (source)
  • In vindication of thy wisdom—a quality for which, as I am now advised, the son of Gordius, to whom I have boldly likened thee, was never distinguished among men or gods—I recall further that thou didst make disposition of the family of Hur, both of us at the time supposing the plan hit upon to be the most effective possible for the purposes in view, which were silence and delivery over to inevitable but natural death.†   (source)
  • The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.†   (source)
  • A quiet smile lighted the haughty features of the young Mohican, betraying his knowledge of the English language as well as of the other's meaning; but he suffered it to pass away without vindication of reply.†   (source)
  • 'My daughter's case, sir,' said he, 'at the time when, in vindication of her outraged feelings and her sex, she became the plaintiff in Rugg and Bawkins.†   (source)
  • The sincere manner of the trapper, as he uttered this simple vindication, was not entirely thrown away on the emigrant, whose dull nature was gradually quickening into a flame, that might speedily have burst forth with dangerous violence.†   (source)
  • What I got from Sheridan was a bold denunciation of slavery, and a powerful vindication of human rights.†   (source)
  • It was now far too late in Clifford's life for the good opinion of society to be worth the trouble and anguish of a formal vindication.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth here felt herself called on to say something in vindication of his behaviour to Wickham; and therefore gave them to understand, in as guarded a manner as she could, that by what she had heard from his relations in Kent, his actions were capable of a very different construction; and that his character was by no means so faulty, nor Wickham's so amiable, as they had been considered in Hertfordshire.†   (source)
  • So now nothing could be easier than to make him accept the two hundred roubles by to-morrow, for he has already vindicated his honor, tossed away the money, and trampled it under foot….†   (source)
  • "You entirely mistake the meaning of our friend," interrupted Middleton, who observed, that the bee-hunter was looking in every direction but the right one, and that he was utterly unable to make his own vindication.†   (source)
  • Hearing that his examination (as he called it) was now over, Mr. Skimpole left the room with a radiant face to fetch his daughters (his sons had run away at various times), leaving my guardian quite delighted by the manner in which he had vindicated his childish character.†   (source)
  • He has vindicated you to the utmost; and I hope the communication of that letter to your cousin will have a beneficial effect on her.†   (source)
  • Humble and degraded as she would have seemed in the eyes of the sophisticated and unreflecting, the image of God was on her soul, and it vindicated its divine origin by aspirations and feelings that would have surprised those who, feigning more, feel less.†   (source)
  • When the violence of the steward's feelings had in some measure subsided, he turned to his fellowsufferer, and, with a motive that might have vindicated a worse effusion, he attempted the charitable office of consolation, "Taking it by and large, Master Bump-ho, it's but a small matter after all," he said.†   (source)
  • "Nelly," resumed the squatter, who paid very little attention to what Paul considered a highly creditable and ingenious vindication, "Nelly, this is a wide and a wicked world, on which you have been in such a hurry to cast yourself.†   (source)
  • Maggie was paralyzed; it was easier to resist Stephen's pleading than this picture he had called up of himself suffering while she was vindicated; easier even to turn away from his look of tenderness than from this look of angry misery, that seemed to place her in selfish isolation from him.†   (source)
  • He had been preoccupied with his own vindication, and had been blind to what Ladislaw might infer on his own account.†   (source)
  • The Doctor muttered a few words, which he intended as an apologetic explanation, but before he had time to complete his laboured vindication, she arose and said with decision— "I did not come here to pass my time in foolish tears, nor you to try to stop them.†   (source)
  • —to know a great deal about him, that he may not like to speak about himself just because it is in his own vindication and to his own honor.†   (source)
  • Dorothea's impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication of Lydgate from the suspicion of having accepted money as a bribe, underwent a melancholy check when she came to consider all the circumstances of the case by the light of Mr. Farebrother's experience.†   (source)
  • Even in her most uneasy moments—even when she had been agitated by Mrs. Cadwallader's painfully graphic report of gossip—her effort, nay, her strongest impulsive prompting, had been towards the vindication of Will from any sullying surmises; and when, in her meeting with him afterwards, she had at first interpreted his words as a probable allusion to a feeling towards Mrs. Lydgate which he was determined to cut himself off from indulging, she had had a quick, sad, excusing vision of…†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 47 Mrs. Dashwood did not hear unmoved the vindication of her former favourite.†   (source)
  • But whether her brother had still exceeded her in resentment, Catherine, though she instinctively addressed herself as much to one as to the other in her vindication, had no means of knowing.†   (source)
  • And so I go about the world, obedient to the god, and search and make enquiry into the wisdom of any one, whether citizen or stranger, who appears to be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of the oracle I show him that he is not wise; and my occupation quite absorbs me, and I have no time to give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.†   (source)
  • Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.†   (source)
  • Not that Marianne appeared to distrust the truth of any part of it, for she listened to it all with the most steady and submissive attention, made neither objection nor remark, attempted no vindication of Willoughby, and seemed to shew by her tears that she felt it to be impossible.†   (source)
  • Willoughby, "poor Willoughby," as she now allowed herself to call him, was constantly in her thoughts; she would not but have heard his vindication for the world, and now blamed, now acquitted herself for having judged him so harshly before.†   (source)
  • You must stop imagining that posterity will vindicate you, Winston.†   (source)
  • And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it.†   (source)
  • It will vindicate so many who have fallen before you, who have suffered as you will suffer.†   (source)
  • It will vindicate so many who have fallen before you, who have suffered as you will suffer.†   (source)
  • While the Napoleonic struggles did threaten interests of the United States because of the French foothold in the West Indies and in Louisiana, and while we engaged in the War of 1812 to vindicate our right to peaceful trade, it is nevertheless clear that neither France nor Great Britain nor any other nation was aiming at domination of the whole world.†   (source)
  • When the Lord himself answers Job out of the whirlwind, He makes no attempt to vindicate His work in ethical terms, but only magnifies His Presence, bidding Job do likewise on earth in human emulation of the way of heaven: Gird up thy loins now like a man; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.†   (source)
  • It happens because you are powerless and unable to get anywhere, to obtain justice or have requital, and therefore in yourself you labor, you wage and combat, settle scores, remember insults, fight, reply, deny, blab, denounce, triumph, outwit, overcome, vindicate, cry, persist, absolve, die and rise again.†   (source)
  • …necessity: the fact that, an orphan a woman and a pauper, I turned naturally not for protection but for actual food to my only kin: my dead sister's family: though I defy anyone to blame me, an orphan of twenty, a young woman without resources, who should desire not only to justify her situation but to vindicate the honor of a family the good name of whose women has never been impugned, by accepting the honorable proffer of marriage from the man whose food she was forced to subsist on.†   (source)
  • But this will vindicate everything.†   (source)
  • Vindicate the purity of your English home.†   (source)
  • His unfortunate timidity He wished to vindicate himself in some way, to assert his manhood.†   (source)
  • And he came, sword in hand, to vindicate outraged honor and morality by murdering me.†   (source)
  • "Oh, yes," said Maggie, reviving a little in the desire to vindicate the variety of her reading.†   (source)
  • The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.†   (source)
  • Does he ever venture to vindicate his conduct, when censured for it?†   (source)
  • I understand the difficulty there is in your vindicating yourself.†   (source)
  • How was he to live on without vindicating himself among people who suspected him of baseness?†   (source)
  • And yet how was he to set about vindicating himself?†   (source)
  • If one or the other parties has to be definitely eliminated they make it eight paces, if they're just good and sore it's twenty paces, and if it's only to vindicate their honor it's forty paces.†   (source)
  • With an added hint or two in connection with the incident at the mess, the resumed narrative must be left to vindicate, as it may, its own credibility.†   (source)
  • I knew that I was right, and that time and the sober second thought of the people would vindicate me.†   (source)
  • He had no means to vindicate his judgment, but his conviction was that Longstreth right then and there decided that the thing to do was to kill Lawson.†   (source)
  • But then, for the mere sake of vindicating her worthiness of sympathy, you should not have insulted and offended a noble and generous girl in her presence!†   (source)
  • Carry did not put her own case so brutally, but she allowed it to be thus put for her by her latest bosom friend, Mrs. Jack Stepney: Mrs. Stepney, trembling over the narrowness of her only brother's escape, but eager to vindicate Mrs. Fisher, at whose house she could count on the "jolly parties" which had become a necessity to her since marriage had emancipated her from the Van Osburgh point of view.†   (source)
  • This, too, I learned, and quickly, for I felt somehow a wild desire to vindicate myself in Wolf Larsen's eyes, to prove my right to live in ways other than of the mind.†   (source)
  • These are merely a few of the things that went through my mind, and are related for the sake of vindicating myself in advance in the weak and helpless role I was destined to play.†   (source)
  • Also, that he was charged with the duty of vindicating Stephen Blackpool's memory, and declaring the thief.†   (source)
  • Glances of a very comprehensive meaning were exchanged between the heiress and the young man, as Louisa betrayed, while vindicating his lineage, the reluctance with which she admitted his alliance with the old warrior; but not even a smile at the simplicity of their companion was indulged in by either.†   (source)
  • Circumscribed by the character of his country and his age, the moralist must learn to vindicate his principles in that position.†   (source)
  • Then why—since the choice was with himself—should the individual, whose connexion with the fallen woman had been the most intimate and sacred of them all, come forward to vindicate his claim to an inheritance so little desirable?†   (source)
  • It was little matter of surprise, perhaps, that the executioner should thus do his best to vindicate and uphold the machinery by which he himself had his livelihood and worthier individuals their death; but it deserved special note that men of a far different sphere--even of that consecrated class in whose guardianship the world is apt to trust its benevolence--were found to take the hangman's view of the question.†   (source)
  • And here I must vindicate a claim to philosophical reflectiveness, by remarking that Mr. Brooke on this occasion little thought of the Radical speech which, at a later period, he was led to make on the incomes of the bishops.†   (source)
  • "Why, Mother, you don't think it would be a good way of sustaining my dignity to set about vindicating myself from the aspersions of Will Maskery?†   (source)
  • It was because you felt insulted and aggrieved, and you remained to vindicate yourself by showing off your intelligence.†   (source)
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