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  • They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.†   (source)
  • Yang wasn't persecuted, exactly, for his marriage.†   (source)
  • For the first time in my life, I felt like a persecuted minority.†   (source)
  • His friend offered him a job that he said would protect him from persecution.†   (source)
  • Our people have always been persecuted, have they not?†   (source)
  • I spent my last year at St. Joseph's School feeling like the persecuted prophet Muhammad in Mecca, peace be upon him.†   (source)
  • Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities.†   (source)
  • Reynie was in the reading room again, the only place in the orphanage where he could be assured of solitude (no one else ever ventured into it) and freedom from persecution.†   (source)
  • It had been our fervent hope that somehow the Nazis would come to their senses and the persecution would stop.†   (source)
  • Why they accepted such persecution was a mystery to me.†   (source)
  • It seemed that after centuries of persecution, science had bitten back.†   (source)
  • Spoken by a member of a despised and persecuted race.†   (source)
  • Quang-ha has a real persecution complex, which is no doubt legitimate.†   (source)
  • If the country was better for the movement that persecuted me, I was still in favor of it.†   (source)
  • For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution.†   (source)
  • All the shame and persecution he went through as a child. he vowed no child of his would go through it.†   (source)
  • Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.†   (source)
  • My ancestors arrived in the Solo-Khumbu region fleeing from persecution in the lowlands.†   (source)
  • But Root always singled her out for persecution.†   (source)
  • My father, Mahafud, was born in Argentina after his Christian family fled religious persecution in Syria.†   (source)
  • Michael: (turning red for some reason) Well, what about your persecution of the Hos?†   (source)
  • As the Protestants came into power, he was enthusiastic in his persecution of Roman Catholics and other religions.†   (source)
  • His persecutor agreed.†   (source)
  • Then whoever is persecuting them, and all those who tacitly support this persecution, would realize that to persecute them would mean persecuting at least 10 percent of the population—including their sons, daughters, neighbors and friends—even their own parents.†   (source)
  • Baby Suggs died shortly after the brothers left, with no interest whatsoever in their leave-taking or hers, and right afterward Sethe and Denver decided to end the persecution by calling forth the ghost that tried them so.†   (source)
  • But how could we know, how in the Holland of 1939 could we have guessed, that it was not in the shop where we could observe him but in the streets and alleys outside that Otto was subjecting Christoffels to a very real, small persecution.†   (source)
  • They were not, by and large, stupid people, and many had had first-hand experience of such persecution.†   (source)
  • You're persecuting us because of our beliefs.†   (source)
  • Backslapping and cheers for all the cops, and then more cheers for me, as if these people hadn't been my persecutors a day before.†   (source)
  • Anyway, it was those temper tantrums that really got people going, escalating everything, and around the time I'm talking about—the summer of our Senior 2, when we were thirteen—that was when the persecution reached its peak.†   (source)
  • Few philosophers in more recent times have been so blasphemed and so persecuted for their ideas as this man.†   (source)
  • These, he thought, who had come to the New World for religious freedom, and then persecuted and destroyed any who did not follow their single, narrow path.†   (source)
  • With what seemed like unusual unanimity, the peasants and the people in the slums had embraced something called dechoukaj, the "uprooting" of every visible symbol of the Duvaliers, which included the public persecution and sometimes the killing of former tontons macoutes, mostly small fry, of course.†   (source)
  • By 1937 the persecution of the Jews had been going on for several years, and Edith's mother had begged Lobach for help.†   (source)
  • They would swagger and pick on outsiders and persecute anyone who didn't speak as they did.†   (source)
  • When rational motives are conspicuous (for example, when a man kills for personal gain) or when the irrational motives are accompanied by delusions or hallucinations (for example, a paranoid patient who kills his fantasied persecutor), the situation presents little problem to the psychiatrist.†   (source)
  • Other people will be driven in the same way in this country, by this very same force of police persecution and of administrative action by the government, to follow my course, of that I am certain.†   (source)
  • Just play poker and stay single and live where and how he wants to, if people would let him, he says, "but you know how society persecutes a dedicated man.†   (source)
  • The Bantu, Feltz learned, would be living in the same complexes as many of the ethnic groups that historically had persecuted them.†   (source)
  • He could rule for centuries or millennia-persecuting and tormenting people the entire time-unless we stop him.†   (source)
  • Their pale bodies did not seem real but were like costumes they were wearing as they played the part of her persecutors.†   (source)
  • They fought with Cromwell—some of them; they came over and robbed the Indians in true sanctimonious fashion, and persecuted the Quakers; and down the line a bit I get some Quaker blood that stood for its beliefs in the stocks, and sacrificed its ears for what it thought right.†   (source)
  • Persecution.†   (source)
  • …since the species was definitely resistant to any and all methods of extermination, from tomato dices with borax to flour and sugar, and with its one thousand six hundred three varieties had resisted the most ancient, tenacious, and pitiless persecution that mankind had unleashed against any living thing since the beginnings, including man himself, to such an extent that just as an instinct for reproduction was attributed to humankind, so there must have been another one more definite…†   (source)
  • Feeling persecuted from all sides, the O'Learys eventually sold their property and fled the area.†   (source)
  • Yeah, he persecuted Christians, but otherwise he was a good ruler.†   (source)
  • They were people persecuted and altered, this was their typology—they were an inconvenient secret of the society around them.†   (source)
  • Farooq continued to denounce the persecution of Mukhtar publicly, so we asked him why he risked his career to stand up for a woman he was supposed to have punished.†   (source)
  • But the plot, he thought, wasn't quite exciting enough, so he'd tried to jazz it up using every idea he'd ever had, including a nuclear warhead hidden in San Francisco, a crooked cop who was witness to the JFK assassination, an Irish terrorist, the Mafia, a boy and his dog, an evil venture capitalist, and a time-traveling scientist who'd escaped the persecution of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • The killing brings doom upon his ship, conveying the message that those looking for refuge shouldn't be persecuted, as they may often bring good fortune.†   (source)
  • It isn't just a matter of fear of sabotage or military necessity anymore, it's outright race persecution.†   (source)
  • Much later, the impoverished artist was recognized as a master and today the painting hangs in a London museum, like so many works of art that left the country when people had to sell their furnishings to feed the victims of persecution.†   (source)
  • Everybody was persecuting him.†   (source)
  • We remember the Casters who were persecuted for their differences.†   (source)
  • Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril or sword?†   (source)
  • I was awake most of the night, persecuted by a yellow house bat that had found its way into my room and was ricocheting from wall to wall.†   (source)
  • The words prison, persecution, banned books, occupation, tanks were ugly, without the slightest trace of romance.†   (source)
  • But the Puritans liked religious freedom so much they kept it all to themselves—often persecuting people who didn't believe what they did.†   (source)
  • This was in the thirteenth century, during a time when the Jews of western Europe, especially in Germany, were going through terrible persecutions.†   (source)
  • I believe that by striving for a world that accepts its oneness, we can transform wars, intolerance, religious persecution, and political extremism into memory and maybe even folklore.†   (source)
  • My countrymen, I know from their form of government and steady attachment heretofore to royalty, will come reluctantly into the idea of independency [Washington wrote], but time and persecution brings many wonderful things to pass, and by private letters which I have lately received from Virginia, I find Common Sense is working a powerful change there in the minds of many men.†   (source)
  • There is simply no time to verify his claims, but as he insists he has a history of legal 'persecutions' in the courts of New York, as well as many photographs in the newspapers, you might recognize him.†   (source)
  • Then she looked away and stared all around her at her persecutors.†   (source)
  • Catholics are persecuted, treated like dogs!†   (source)
  • This shifted to a growing anger that my clever, gentle, beautiful mother should be so unjustly persecuted, which was transformed, heaven knows how, into a fury against my mother for allowing herself to be so treated.†   (source)
  • No one would have balked at my persecuting him then!†   (source)
  • Though the inspector had no such convenient pulpit for reply, certain trenchant remarks of his on persecution, contempt of authority, bigotry, religious mania, the law of slander, and the probable effects of direct action in opposition to Government sanction achieved a wide circulation.†   (source)
  • There were, after all, many in Britain too who suffered greatly at the hands of powerful absentee landlords, who were persecuted for their religion, or who were for centuries disenfranchised.†   (source)
  • Diem's persecution of Buddhists has become old news.†   (source)
  • Obadiah hid the prophets from persecution.†   (source)
  • We have been persecuted for our beliefs and our power both in the realms and out.†   (source)
  • They persecuted Microscopico until he told them why he was in the navy.†   (source)
  • Bad ideas can rarely be defeated by persecution.†   (source)
  • Goblins were convenient, but the wizard longed to have humans bowing before him, real men like the ones who had persecuted him for all of his life.†   (source)
  • Here's the point of his letter: if you really love someone and want to tell them about what God's done for us, there's no way to escape without being persecuted.†   (source)
  • The police are persecuting my family.†   (source)
  • Out of those eleven billion people perhaps seven billion lived where polygamy is legal, and Stu's opinion manipulators played up "persecution"; it gained us sympathy from people who otherwise would never have heard of us—even gained it in North America and other places where polygamy is not legal, from people who believe in "live and let live."†   (source)
  • He was like the millions who had come before him, the early Zionist pioneers who had fled to Palestine to escape the persecution and pogroms of Eastern Europe, the human wrecks who came spilling out of the death camps after the war.†   (source)
  • What a fine persecution-to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened….†   (source)
  • It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared and detested.†   (source)
  • And it was here, as I say, that his punishing callousness turned into outright persecution.†   (source)
  • Oscar was feeling persecuted, refused to discuss the subject further, and lowered his head as a sign that he had ended his participation in the discussion.†   (source)
  • Nirriti smiled and said, " 'Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.'†   (source)
  • She always felt the same thing—it was awful really but she did—she wished no one would turn up, because that was absolute and it suggested persecution, humiliation—it was something you could react to.†   (source)
  • Under enemy rule, they enjoy equal rights, and we do nothing but persecute them.†   (source)
  • Unless he were to kill anybody, the police were not disposed to persecute him for a trifle such as that.†   (source)
  • And hear Paul, who had been Saul, a persecutor of the redeemed, struck down on the road to Damascus, and going forth to preach the gospel: 'And if ye be Christ's, then ye are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise!'†   (source)
  • The smaller boy was thin and defiant; his white bangs were plastered down where he had thrown himself time after time headfirst into the lake when the older child chased him to persecute him.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL We feel that, since you are known to have been a friend of More's, your participation will show that there is nothing in the nature of a "persecution," but only the strict processes of law.†   (source)
  • Can't say I did; the usual violences, a tendency toward a slight paranoia here or there, usual in children because they feel persecuted by parents constantly, but, oh, really nothing.†   (source)
  • That's a lengthy process and you'd have to prove political persecution.†   (source)
  • Despite having been persecuted myself, my chief goal in life is to bring happiness to all.†   (source)
  • Her family was fleeing poverty and the persecution of Jews.†   (source)
  • Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England.†   (source)
  • Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?†   (source)
  • There was not a hint of the persecution that she went through.†   (source)
  • Those who persecuted others, even beat or tortured them, were victims too, after all.†   (source)
  • I do not fathom it, why am I persecuted here?†   (source)
  • She married a persecuted high-level cadre from the Education Ministry.†   (source)
  • Sooner or later, the persecuted and sidelined old cadres would be back in power.†   (source)
  • Carlos give you immunity from his own particular brand of persecution?†   (source)
  • It is forbidden to engage in the persecution of an ethnic group.†   (source)
  • Back in the dark time, we were persecuted.†   (source)
  • It was manna from heaven, the perfect start and justification for a new wave of persecution.†   (source)
  • She imagined the word had spread that she was helping the victims of the persecution.†   (source)
  • After forty years of persecution and banishment, the ANC was now a legal organization.†   (source)
  • Why did Poland want Jews when almost every other country was persecuting them?†   (source)
  • Not even a semblance of democracy or common sense in this latest racial persecution.†   (source)
  • By the light of these statements Stoddard read what poor Johnnie's persecution had been.†   (source)
  • Khrushchev feels persecuted by the Americans.†   (source)
  • He had certainly never expected to find him in the company of a persecuted editor.†   (source)
  • Do you mean that modern art isn't persecuted under Communism?†   (source)
  • Religion was persecuted by the regime, and most people gave the church a wide berth.†   (source)
  • It was a theory splintering all previous hesitancies about persecution.†   (source)
  • Now I'm feeling persecuted," said McClean.†   (source)
  • According to some accounts, by the sixteenth century in Europe, almost all of these secret fraternities had become extinct, most of them exterminated by a growing tide of religious persecution.†   (source)
  • And you've been through all that persecution from the Ministry when they were trying to make out you were unstable and a liar.†   (source)
  • Imagine wasting your time and energy persecuting merpeople when there are little toerags like Kreacher on the loose.†   (source)
  • I read a book called Persecution by David Limbaugh about the various ways that Christians were discriminated against.†   (source)
  • I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution.†   (source)
  • At dinners and gatherings with family and friends, they sometimes discussed the reports of persecution of Jews in other countries, but they did not consider that Slovak Jews as a group were particularly at risk.†   (source)
  • I have an educated guess about you and Mr. Brittain getting your heads together to decide this suicide thing was the result of some kind of religious persecution.†   (source)
  • We dreamed of our new life in Cape Town, sure the years of deprivation and persecution would finally be behind us.†   (source)
  • "While we're on the subject, I want to thank all the watchers who sent frowns to the government there, k both for their persecution of this artist, and for their restrictions on internet freedoms.†   (source)
  • Under the tent that night, Graham spoke of how the world was in an age of war, an age defined by persecution and suffering.†   (source)
  • The criminalization of infant mortality and the persecution of poor women whose children die have taken on new dimensions in twenty-first-century America, as prisons across the country began to bear witness.†   (source)
  • Protected by the love and support of my family, I had little knowledge of the past persecutions that Jews in Narewka and other villages had experienced over the centuries, at the hands of first one ruler and then another.†   (source)
  • Religion has always persecuted science.†   (source)
  • There was something about Mrs. Meany's obdurate self-imprisonment that smacked of religious persecution—if not eternal damnation.†   (source)
  • This practice added a mysterious allure to their work and also protected them from persecution should their writings or artwork be deemed counterestablishment.†   (source)
  • Somehow, though, there was also a look of triumph on her face, and it was not the triumph of having saved another human being from persecution.†   (source)
  • Yes, those with eyes too clouded by the mundane to See as I See, to Know as I Know… of course, we Seers have always been feared, always persecuted… it is — alas —our fate.†   (source)
  • Although we had both endured our share of bullying at school, Platt's persecution of Andy—inventive, joyous, sadistic —had verged on outright torture: spitting in Andy's food, yes, tearing up his toys, but also leaving dead guppies from the fish tank and autopsy photos from the Internet on his pillow, throwing back the covers and peeing on him while he was asleep (and then crying Android's wet the bed!†   (source)
  • had never been intelligent enough to persecute Andy and me in any kind of focused or resourceful way.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry, but you must understand: the disturbance Emma was creating would have been terribly disruptive for the other children, especially since they would themselves have been feeling abandoned—they were far too young to understand that their parents had saved them from persecution and even death by their sacrifice.†   (source)
  • In fact, many were caught on the wrong side in the power struggles and were persecuted in their turn, just as Du Hai's mother was.†   (source)
  • "THIS UNJUST IMPOSITION ENCOURAGES RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION," said The Voice; Owen saw signs. of anti-Catholicism springing up everywhere.†   (source)
  • Then whoever is persecuting them, and all those who tacitly support this persecution, would realize that to persecute them would mean persecuting at least 10 percent of the population—including their sons, daughters, neighbors and friends—even their own parents.†   (source)
  • How many had actively persecuted others, high on the scent of Hitler's gaze, repeating his sentences, his paragraphs, his opus?†   (source)
  • All of this talk about Christians who weren't Christian enough, secularists indoctrinating our youth, art exhibits insulting our faith, and persecution by the elites made the world a scary and foreign place.†   (source)
  • Yet the nuns, in a fury that only religious persecution can account for, would attack us; their pursuit was erratic, their shrieks like the cries of bats surprised by sunlight—Owen and I had no trouble outrunning them.†   (source)
  • '— and he's Em's friend too, and, and, I mean," blinking furiously, with an air of being unjustly persecuted, "I know how it may have seemed, I know you don't like Tom and you have good reason not to.†   (source)
  • He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side.†   (source)
  • "So we've explored the damage of secrets within the family and between friends, and the role of secrecy in persecuting large classes of people.†   (source)
  • On November 23, I heard on the radio that the British government had agreed to take in ten thousand persecuted children.†   (source)
  • Certainly he would have been sent off to Groton like Platt—a prospect that had terrified him, as far back as third grade—had not his parents worried with some justification about sending away to school a son so persecuted by his classmates that he had once been nearly suffocated at recess by a plastic bag thrown over his head.†   (source)
  • …Church Nativity When I suggested that his response to their presence in the congregation had been radical and severe, he dismissed me in a fashion he'd perfected— by forgiving me for what I couldn't be expected to know, and what he would never explain to me: that old UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE that the Catholics had perpetrated, and his parents' inability to rise above what amounted to the RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION they had suffered; yet it was my opinion that Owen was persecuting his parents.†   (source)
  • Then whoever is persecuting them, and all those who tacitly support this persecution, would realize that to persecute them would mean persecuting at least 10 percent of the population—including their sons, daughters, neighbors and friends—even their own parents.†   (source)
  • Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.†   (source)
  • "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account," Jesus says.†   (source)
  • I suppose the conversion of St. Paul has a special effect on a convert like me: And how can I not think of Owen—when I read Paul's letter to the Galatians, that part where Paul says, "And I was still not known by sight to the churches of Christ in Judea; they only heard it said, 'He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.'†   (source)
  • …Church Nativity When I suggested that his response to their presence in the congregation had been radical and severe, he dismissed me in a fashion he'd perfected— by forgiving me for what I couldn't be expected to know, and what he would never explain to me: that old UNSPEAKABLE OUTRAGE that the Catholics had perpetrated, and his parents' inability to rise above what amounted to the RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION they had suffered; yet it was my opinion that Owen was persecuting his parents.†   (source)
  • Even though he became a justice of the peace after the war, the tight-lipped former member of the Confederate Secret Service was ever after wary of persecution for aiding John Wilkes Booth and David Herold.†   (source)
  • Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."†   (source)
  • A designing majority in the House of Representatives could impeach a faithful official, stopping him from performing his duties and exposing him to persecution.†   (source)
  • By your own account, Ajihad suspected that the Varden had been betrayed when Galbatorix began persecuting their allies in the Empire with near-perfect accuracy.†   (source)
  • And then, unaccepted and persecuted for his heritage in city after city in the populated south, he had made his way to the wilderness frontier of Ten-Towns, a melting pot of outcasts, the last outpost of humanity, where he was at least tolerated.†   (source)
  • That was when they began to understand how fortunate they had been; they found that even in places where physical deviations don't count for much people who have think-together are usually persecuted.†   (source)
  • You've got a bad persecution complex.†   (source)
  • The report claimed that it was almost impossible to charge and convict anyone under the law of persecution against an ethnic group.†   (source)
  • The persecuted junkie.†   (source)
  • When the Somali civil war began in 1991, the persecution accelerated dramatically as warring factions forced the Somali Bantu off their land in the fertile Juba River valley.†   (source)
  • And my father only added to it, for whenever I began to talk to him of my feelings toward Reb Saunders he invariably countered by defending him and by asserting that the faith of Jews like Reb Saunders had kept us alive through two thousand years of violent persecution.†   (source)
  • I speak to all those who will be persecuted to tell you that I am not going to resign: I will repay the people's loyalty with my life.†   (source)
  • An assemblage of agricultural tribes from the area of East Africa now comprising Tanzania, Malawi, and Mozambique, the Somali Bantu had undergone more than three hundred years of almost uninterrupted persecution.†   (source)
  • Her sisters and brother were persecuted by the police, and the authorities attempted to forbid anyone in her family from living with her.†   (source)
  • Persecution depresses you.†   (source)
  • And there are others who, although they wouldn't persecute us, are ignorant and indifferent and believe we're being very well treated for the "class" of people we are.†   (source)
  • They were afraid of Yossarian and persecuted him incessantly with nagging generosity and with their exasperating insistence on doing small favors for him.†   (source)
  • His father checked the margin of the page for the textual corrections of Rabbi Elijah—the same Rabbi Elijah who had persecuted Hasidim!†   (source)
  • This history of persecution and wandering had torn at the social fabric of the Somali Bantu and left them, on the whole, poor, deeply traumatized, and far removed from the trappings of the modern world.†   (source)
  • He mentioned his interest in Arabic to one of his clients, a well-educated Kurdish woman who had fled Iraq and persecution under the rule of Saddam Hussein and who now lived with her husband and children in Clarkston.†   (source)
  • But Aarfy was already back in the apartment when Yossarian arrived, and Yossarian gaped at him with that same sense of persecuted astonishment he had suffered that same morning over Bologna at his malign and cabalistic and irremovable presence in the nose of the plane.†   (source)
  • She would unhesitatingly prefer life in a real Communist regime with all its persecution and meat queues.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the Dikori family decided to leave and to join the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees streaming into Egypt in search of, if not economic opportunity, at least a respite from the overt and relentless persecution of Africans and Christians in the Sudan.†   (source)
  • A steady flow of refugees into town—most recently, Burundians and Karen, a persecuted ethnic group from Burma—has meant that there has been no shortage of boys who want to try out for the Fugees.†   (source)
  • But many also died without being directly subjected to persecution; the hopelessness pervading the entire country penetrated the soul to the body, shattering the latter.†   (source)
  • Whenever she told him about herself and her friends from home, Franz heard the words prison, persecution, enemy tanks, emigration, pamphlets, banned books, banned exhibitions, and he felt a curious mixture of envy and nostalgia.†   (source)
  • Amid the lawlessness and the systematic campaigns of rape, torture, and killing, the Somali Bantu fled en masse with other persecuted Somalis to the empty and dangerous open spaces of northeast Kenya and into four main refugee camps established there by the United Nations.†   (source)
  • People were still reacting to the mass persecution of Czech intellectuals with the euphoria of solidarity, and when his former patients found out that Tomas was washing windows for a living, they would phone in and order him by name.†   (source)
  • Aren't you on the side of the persecuted? his son added, and Tomas suddenly saw that what was really at stake in this scene they were playing was not the amnesty of political prisoners; it was his relationship with his son.†   (source)
  • The second type of reaction came from people who themselves (they or their intimates) had been persecuted, who had refused to compromise with the occupation powers or were convinced they would refuse to compromise (to sign a statement) even though no one had requested it of them (for instance, because they were too young to be seriously involved).†   (source)
  • Had he persecuted her?†   (source)
  • Persecuted.†   (source)
  • Of course it's true that persecution forces them into this futile and disastrous attitude, this shamefaced, self-denying isolation that brings them nothing but misfortune.†   (source)
  • " 'Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you,' " said Nirriti, " 'and persecute you, and say all manner of evil things against you falsely, for my sake…… ' " "Water?" asked Sam, unstoppering his canteen and raising Nirriti's head.†   (source)
  • …anywhere in sight except for the houses of ill repute and the junky line--can't even slip over to the posh sections for the stealing business, no cars to get there--and the place getting thicker and thicker with people, all boiling like white-hot lead, half of them ready to kill you on sight from pure jealousy and imaginary or real persecution--and now the insurance people pull out, pawnshops and grocers and taverns shut down, no more hope for them, nothing in sight but violence.†   (source)
  • She often took the very pose of that inventive and persecuted little heroine who coped with people she thought were witches and ogres (alas! they were not)-feet apart, head aslant, eyes glancing up sideways, ears cocked; but you could not tell whether Virgie would boldly interrupt her enemies or run off to her own devices with a forgetful smile on her lips.†   (source)
  • He has been so persecuted for seeking justice in race relations I was afraid my presence anywhere near him might further jeopardize him.†   (source)
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