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  • But when he was released he felt defrauded by the brevity of his captivity, and even in the days of his old age, when so many other wars were confused in his memory, he still thought he was the only man in the city, and perhaps the country, who had dragged fivepound leg irons for the sake of love.†  (source)
  • But defrauding poor people?†  (source)
  • It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested.†  (source)
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  • The state racing board, tired of the whole mess, realized that the race's nonbetting status gave them an out because the public had not been defrauded.†  (source)
  • After all, every one of us regularly passes up opportunities to maim, steal, and defraud.†  (source)
  • He felt, in leaving her, he was defrauding her of life.†  (source)
  • Think with what threats you dared the Trojan throng, Think what reproach these ears endured so long; 'Stern son of Peleus, (thus ye used to say, While restless, raging, in your ships you lay) Oh nursed with gall, unknowing how to yield; Whose rage defrauds us of so famed a field: If that dire fury must for ever burn, What make we here?†  (source)
  • money poured into unenforceable contracts-both parties knowing that in case of fraud, the defrauded was to be punished, not the defrauder-but poured that a stream of ore might continue flowing into furnaces, that the furnaces might continue to pour a stream of white metal.†  (source)
  • Then she knew a moment of anger and wanted to shout at them because she felt they had cheated her out of her dream, defrauded her.†  (source)
  • Ned was unaware of the existence of these debts and believed the creditors were trying to defraud him—until they presented documents signed by the previous owner, H. H. Holmes.†  (source)
  • The minister might stand there, if it so pleased him, until morning should redden in the east, without other risk than that the dank and chill night air would creep into his frame, and stiffen his joints with rheumatism, and clog his throat with catarrh and cough; thereby defrauding the expectant audience of to-morrow's prayer and sermon.†  (source)
  • A prophet then, inspired by heaven, arose, And points the crime, and thence derives the woes: Myself the first the assembled chiefs incline To avert the vengeance of the power divine; Then rising in his wrath, the monarch storm'd; Incensed he threaten'd, and his threats perform'd: The fair Chryseis to her sire was sent, With offer'd gifts to make the god relent; But now he seized Briseis' heavenly charms, And of my valour's prize defrauds my arms, Defrauds the votes of all the Grecian train;(63) And service, faith, and justice, plead in vain.†  (source)
  • You fear the man who has a dollar less than you, that dollar is rightfully his, he makes you feel like a moral defrauder.†  (source)
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