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  • When the nine of us compared notes, we discovered we were all facing an increasing barrage of injurious activities.†  (source)
  • They contain such injurious information that when presented by you "Sir?"†  (source)
  • Errors such as these which have occurred over the last few months have been, naturally enough, injurious to one's self-respect, but then there is no reason to believe them to be the signs of anything more sinister than a staff shortage.†  (source)
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  • We are all free to speak & do as we individually will-providing this "freedom" of Speech & Deed are not injurious to our fellow-man.†  (source)
  • The work was at once commenced, and pursued with true American energy; nor did the rapidity with which it went on injuriously affect its good execution.†  (source)
  • Apparently, the White House is concerned that an attack on the American homeland this late in the president's second term might prove injurious to his legacy.†  (source)
  • He cannot yet credit that one may have impressive experience, and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature; and perhaps the discovery that wisdom has other tongues and ministers than we, that though we should hold our peace, the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.†  (source)
  • Professing myself, moreover, convinced that the General's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern.... Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey†  (source)
  • And this is an abuse of great gravity in itself, and one that reacts injuriously on the government service.†  (source)
  • "I may be mistaken in these conjectures, they may be injurious to J. and F., and therefore I shall not talk about them, but I am determined to put down my thoughts and see which turns out," Adams wrote in his diary.†  (source)
  • Athelstane, utterly confounded at an order which the manners and feelings of the times rendered so injuriously insulting, unwilling to obey, yet undetermined how to resist, opposed only the "vis inertiae" to the will of John; and, without stirring or making any motion whatever of obedience, opened his large grey eyes, and stared at the Prince with an astonishment which had in it something extremely ludicrous.†  (source)
  • Restraint of the States from certain injurious acts.†  (source)
  • He cannot yet credit that one may have impressive experience, and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature; and perhaps the discovery that wisdom has other tongues and ministers than we, that though we should hold our peace, the truth would not the less be spoken, might check injuriously the flames of our zeal.†  (source)
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