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harmful — especially to human health- The belief is not only foolish, but potentially injurious.
- altogether he assured me that it would be excessively troublesome, injurious, and unsafe.Anne Bronte -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- O, injurious law,William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- It is known that you are not my sister; I cannot introduce you as such: to attempt it would be to fasten injurious suspicions on us both.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- And this is an abuse of great gravity in itself, and one that reacts injuriously on the government service.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- I trace amongst our contemporaries two contrary notions which are equally injurious.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- They contain such injurious information that when presented by you "Sir?"Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- —It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods; To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stol'n our jewel.William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
- It is well for the old girl that she has but one birthday in a year, for two such indulgences in poultry might be injurious.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- You cannot, therefore, estimate the wrong—the blasphemy, I may even say—that is offered to her character by a light or injurious word.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Rappaccini's Daughter
- Do you mean to pretend that you didn't know it would be injurious to her to meet you here week after week?George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- If a servant should be allowed to purchase herself, after absenting herself so long from her owners, and return free, it would have an injurious effect.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- I need only take it regularly and avoid all injurious influences.Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- I got down into the canoe, while the Dutchman, standing upon the deck, loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford.Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- 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.Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
- Oh, clubs injurious to Princeton democracy; cost a lot; draw social lines, take time; the regular line you get sometimes from disappointed sophomores.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- We are all free to speak & do as we individually will-providing this "freedom" of Speech & Deed are not injurious to our fellow-man.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- Cloisters, useful in the early education of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious to its development.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- O, injurious law, That respites me a life whose very comfort Is still a dying horror!William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
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