All 15 Uses of
persecution
in
White Fang
- Lip-lip had selected White Fang for his special object of persecution.
Part 3 *persecution = bad, ongoing, and unfair treatment
- His temper had been savage by birth, but it became more savage under this unending persecution.†
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- He learned to sneak about camp, to be crafty, to know what was going on everywhere, to see and to hear everything and to reason accordingly, and successfully to devise ways and means of avoiding his implacable persecutor.†
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- It was early in the days of his persecution that he played his first really big crafty game and got there from his first taste of revenge.†
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- But be that as it may, they joined with Lip-lip in the persecution.†
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- Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him—and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.†
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- An outcast himself from the pack of the part-grown dogs, his sanguinary methods and remarkable efficiency made the pack pay for its persecution of him.†
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- In the past he had observed Lip-lip's persecution of White Fang; but at that time Lip-lip was another man's dog, and Mit-sah had never dared more than to shy an occasional stone at him.†
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- This made Lip-lip the leader, and was apparently an honour! but in reality it took away from him all honour, and instead of being bully and master of the pack, he now found himself hated and persecuted by the pack.†
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- In addition, the persecution he had suffered from the pack had made the pack less to him in the scheme of things, and man more.†
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- He did not dare venture away from the gods, for now the fangs of all dogs were against him, and he tasted to the dregs the persecution that had been White Fang's.†
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- It was an involuntary bristling on his part, the physical state that in the past had always accompanied the mental state produced in him by Lip-lip's bullying and persecution.†
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- And not for nothing had his puppyhood been made bitter by the persecution of Lip-lip and the whole puppy pack.†
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- In his puppyhood, under the persecution of Lip-lip and the puppy-pack, and in his fighting days with Beauty Smith, he had acquired a fixed aversion for dogs.†
Part 5
- The guard treated him unfairly, lied about him to the warden, lost his credits, persecuted him.†
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Definition:
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(persecution) very bad and unfair treatment of others -- often because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political beliefs