His wife had persecutedhim and declared she would leave him if he made the confession he desired to make.
As his family did not erect a cross over his grave, one of his neighbors who had persecuted Captain Egydio violently many times thought he would correct him in his grave, and so he set up a large cross over him.
The believers asked for police protection, but the police sent to protect them being under the domination of the priest, who was the political boss of that district, persecuted the believers even more than their neighbors had done.
But he found no rest in his new home, for his fellow townsmen so persecuted him that he was compelled to live in the outskirts of the town.
He told the persecuted saint that he would stand by him from now on, for Marciano had experienced a marvelous conversion.
The sceptre of the rulers, he who smote The people in wrath with a continual stroke, That ruled the nations in his anger--he Is persecuted and none hindereth!
I could bear it and did bear; It was a comfort, still one lot for all: They were not persecuted for my sake And I, estranged, the single happy one.
The nations who persecuted and despoiled the sons of Abraham have been despoiled themselves.
The sudden pleasure of such a communication, after nine months of hardship, toil, and fighting, might have been too much for these poor persecuted ones, had it not been tempered with doubts as to its truthfulness.
Here I understood large numbers of the persecuted Vaudois had found a refuge and a sanctuary in its holiest and happiest sense.
Their first resting-place was Geneva, which twelve years before had so charitably welcomed the persecuted Vaudois.
His mother was a descendant of the Huguenots, the persecuted French Protestants.
Though relentlessly hunted and persecuted for more than three centuries, this early evangelical body had continued to maintain its existence in the form of secret religious circles known as "the hidden seed.
There was once in the city of Dark-Grotto a certain man named Minecco Aniello, who was so persecuted by fortune that all his fixtures and moveables consisted only of a short-legged cock, which he had reared upon bread-crumbs.
Serious and sympathetic, she was interested in every movement, feeling with those who were persecuted on account of their religious opinions.
But in the words of Paul the prisoner, and of the poor persecuted Christians, there rang tones of perfect sincerity.
For the soldier Urbanus who stood behind the chair of Tigellinus was one who, though not yet a Christian, had been among those who had been chained to Paul, and had acquired a kindly feeling towards the persecuted brethren.
I could have procured more women, but I remembered that the poor persecuted man had two daughters, and there were but five of the Spaniards that wanted; the rest had wives of their own, though in another country.
Calvinism or orthodoxy," she says, "was the despised and persecuted form of faith.
Mr. Alcott met Mr. May's sister Abbie, who shared fully her brother's enthusiasm for the new education and its persecuted apostle.
The thought immediately flashed across his mind that this man must be Jacob Gray, and his accuser the persecuted Ada.
And now let us speak of Ada—the young, the beautiful, the persecuted Ada—who now for many weary months had endured the solitary and miserable life of a captive in the little house at Battersea.
The more heartily Sir Francis might enter into this business, the more misery we might be laying up for the persecuted girl it is our wish to rescue.
That one is the persecuted Ada, who, if she be still living, I implore you to succour.
God knows how willingly I would have taken this persecuted young girl to my home, and done a parent’s duty by her; but Heaven has decreed it otherwise.
If the persecuted and the unhappy had nothing but that oblivion from care to thank Heaven for, it should be sufficient to fill the heart with holy thoughts and deep thanksgiving.
He was persecuted on every side; his life, even, was demanded as the only recompense for his crime, and the Inquisition endeavoured to lay hold of him.
She has been daily persecuted by the attentions of that high personage during my brother's absence.
The peace of mind, which I find after my flight, convinces me that I have not been suffering from the delusions of disease, but have been persecuted by real enemies.
I am proud of the distinction of being persecuted by misfortune, and am never weary of repeating, "See!
The idea that I am being persecuted by means of electricity again takes possession of me.
I am inclined to attribute these pains which drive me wild to the unknown powers which have persecuted me for years, and frustrate my endeavours.
Persecuted by the Catholics, he sought refuge at Geneva, believing Calvin to be more merciful than the Inquisitors, and Calvin burned him alive.
He was beloved and persecuted in his lifetime, and long after his death still found enthusiastic disciples.
If Catholics were once more to be persecutedinstead of admired, how soon would Charles leave them!
What she appeared to be saying was:-- "I am persecuted by Turks; I beg you to succour me!
She had been surrounded in the Tower with women spies; had been monstrously persecuted and foully slandered; and had received no justice.
The poor persecutedcountry people believed that the New Forest was enchanted.
Pomaks (Muslim Bulgarians), who tend to live separately, have been persecuted on occasion and have represented a social problem.
Although landowners were not persecuted to the same degree as the peasantry, they were frequently displaced from the land.
Our Highlanders have neither memory nor tradition of ever having been herded together, lorded over, persecuted or denied the privileges of free-men.
In time, as their leases in Ulster began to expire, the Scotch-Irish themselves came in conflict with the Crown, by whom they were persecuted and evicted.
He has enemies, was variously said of the persecuted nobleman.
Persecuted as he was, nothing remained for him but the nether-sublime of a statuesque desperation.
Who is it that flings wide the prison-gates when His persecuted servants are in chains?
If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept My saying, they will keep yours also.
During the two years named above, four of the Twelve Apostles and many of the leading men apostatized; and then, not satisfied with so doing, they began to join the mobs who persecuted Joseph and the Saints.
They coupled Ireland with Poland in the minds of all lovers of political justice; and they even suggested analogies between the Irish and the persecuted and outcast people of Israel.
Sometimes Grace would suddenly feel, like to the rush of a falling star through the purple sky of night, a glimmering perception of at least a possibility of truth existing in this persecuted religion.
