If the Colonel married Lillie he would be a valuable friend at court; moreover the match could not hurt the social position of her relatives, who were ostracised as Yankees already; it would be all gain and no loss.
It is because of your unworthy conduct that we are ostracised by all decent women.
They flocked into the city from all parts of the country and ostracised Aristeides, veiling their envy of his glory under the pretence that they feared he would make himself king.
On some trifling pretext they ostracised Kimon, condemning him to exile for ten years, which is the appointed time for those suffering from ostracism.
Having once been ostracised by Society, he had never since had any real regard for conventional morality; but the idea of a love which she could never return--and how could she at his age?
The picture of his father, as he had seen him the last time alive, stood out vividly in his memory; the ostracised baron, who had been bold enough to seek the aid of the law, had then found every door closed in his face.
That this poor unhappy girl whom you have denounced andostracised regards me as her rescuer and saviour, because I am the first who for years has spoken a kind word to her?
It is not many months ago that a Jew cadet at West Point was hazed and abused and ostracised by the other cadets, and had his life made such a burden that he had to resign and go home, heart-broken to a heart-broken mother.
They have been assailed for thousands of years, until they look upon being ostracised and trodden upon as one of the things they must expect, and they don't kick half as much as they ought to.
But a lady of her fine appearance, attractive manners, and general intelligence, whose society was sought by the most cultivated gentlemen in the house, could not be very long ostracised by the ladies.
To a certain extent they have shared the odium and persecution we have provoked, they have been ostracised and ignored for heresies they have never accepted.
That little band of heroes who precipitated the American Revolution in 1776 were so ostracisedthat they walked the streets with bowed heads, from a sense of loneliness and apprehension.
On the side of the House it had become a revolting hypocrisy, since Bradlaugh was being ostracised for what other men were allowed to do freely; and the form of legality put on in the resort to the law courts was only a new simulation.
As for the mass of his followers, they had, as Sir George Trevelyan has said of the Tories whoostracised Wilkes, "as much chivalry in them as a pack of prairie wolves round a wounded buffalo.
But the white woman who thus marries a Negro is speedily declassed: she is ostracised by the white people, and while she finds a certain place among the Negroes, she is not even readily accepted as a Negro.
An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem 216 XI.
As I have shown in a former chapter, a white woman in the North who marries a Negro is declassed--ostracised by both races.
A white man or woman, and especially a Northern white man or woman, in Atlanta who teaches Negroes is rigorously ostracised by white society.
I am well aware that Theophrastus says that Hyperbolus was ostracised in consequence of a quarrel of Alkibiades with Phæax and not with Nikias; but my account agrees with that given by the best historians.
The result was that no one was ever again ostracised at Athens, but Hyperbolus was the last, as Hipparchus of Cholargus, who was some relation to the despot of that name, was the first.
Truly, it does seem strange that men should be ostracised for not believing that the great majority of mankind is in everlasting fire!
We may take whichever view seems the most agreeable with Scripture or with reason; and for so doing we ought not to be ostracised as heretics.
What few real honest men we have will hesitate to attend for fear of being ostracised by society.
Yet this 'ostracised man' was chosen by the best citizens of Dumfries as one of the committee to write to King George, and was elected as a member of the committee to manage the company.
Long ago I was ostracised from all decent society.
Once more she felt despised and rejected, ostracised from honourable society.
She had not regarded it in the light of a just recompense when her father, an honest attorney, had insisted on his leading her to the altar, a measure which had saved him from being ostracised by the whole town as a seducer.
They viewed the questions involved in the great conflict from the point of view of statesmen, rather than that of an ostracised class.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ostracised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
