The deer, thus directed, had no resource but to land where its persecutor chose; but no sooner did its foot touch ground, than it sprang convulsively forward in the vain hope to escape.
After a little time, it lay sulkily down at the bottom of the pool, where it defied its persecutor to move it an inch.
Between them they hope to bring thepersecutor of the faithful on his knees.
He says: "You who are a most abandoned traditor have come out in the character of a persecutor and murderer of us who keep the law.
Judas repented of his deed even in death; you not only do not repent, but stand forth as a persecutor and butcher of us who keep the law, whilst you are the most wicked of traditors.
For you, too, through the sacrament which is in you, like Caiaphas the persecutor of the Lord, prophesy without being aware of it.
And if you prove this charge against any one, yet the persecutor and traditor is not to be baptized afresh, if he has been baptized already with the baptism of Christ.
He desires to be a persecutorby the pang without the palm.
Or perhaps even the sight of my persecutor may be permitted to burst the rending heart--to scare the trembling spirit from its prison.
Here, then, may the dying thief, and the persecutor of the holy, lay down their load of guilt, and woe at the foot of the cross.
Having left the fold, he is said to have became a persecutor of his people.
We shall refer to the different steps in the development of this Faith as they occur, and we shall see how this sect, born in Judaism, became its antagonist and persecutor in later days.
For the antagonism of Gentile against Jew was now transmitted to the new church and, sad to say, it became a more bitterpersecutor of the people from which Jesus and Paul had sprung than most of the heathen nations had been.
It is true, a persecutor has a black mark upon him; but yet the Scriptures say that all the ways of the persecutor are God's.
He could not as yet be at heart a persecutor of heresy, yet he could not afford to antagonize the Church.
His wife and one of his sisters were Waldenses, another sister was a Catharan, and the monk of Vaux-Cernay describes him as an enemy of God and a cruel persecutor of the Church.
Bartholomew endeavored to escape his persecutor by appearing a day in advance of the one set for his trial, but word was sent to Groot, who threw himself into a wagon, and by travelling all night reached Utrecht in time.
From this time this persecutor became a disciple of the Lord Jesus.
The old persecutor was trying to teach the citizen, with fire and sword.
The new persecutor is trying to learn from the citizen, with scalpel and germ-injector.
As they came within public observation, her persecutor fell behind, throwing off the imperious manner which he had assumed during their solitary interview.
She knew it; there was no other fact within her consciousness that she felt to be so certain; and yet, because her persecutor found himself safe and irrefutable in death, he frowned upon his victim, and threw back the blame on her!
Little further allusion was made to the scene at its margin; for the party regarded Miriam's persecutor as diseased in his wits, and were hardly to be surprised by any eccentricity in his deportment.
We sometimes escape from an imaginary danger, only to find some real persecutor has a little bill against us.
Not liking fish, he drew back and sought another place; but his persecutor getting there before him administered the same rebuff.
The entire hunt may unite in cursing him, but they must do so below their breath; it would have a disastrous effect to spread it abroad that he is a persecutor of foxes.
How long she will stand by like the persecutor Saul, consenting unto the death of Stephen, and keeping the raiment of them that slew him.
A traitor whom I have unceasingly denounced to you, the persecutor of the patriot soldiers, the upholder of the aristocrat officers.
Mirabeau's education was as rough and rude as the hand of his father, who was styled the friend of man, but whose restless spirit and selfish vanity rendered him the persecutor of his wife and the tyrant of all his family.
He was discovered by the very man whom his old persecutor had sent for the purpose.
She would be wanted as a witness in a few months, at furthest, in a suit which he believed would leave her persecutor in a position where, forgetting others, he would be absorbed in the effort to take care of himself.
The sons-in-law of the old Emir Beshir, the unrelenting persecutor no longer among the living, were among the firmest friends of the mission, and his grandchildren were in its schools.
Thus, until the slow moving Turk discovered the abuse, the persecutor pursued his work with impunity under the broad shield of the law.
Somewhat later, having been elevated to the Patriarchate, he became a reckless persecutor of the Protestants of Turkey, as will appear in its proper place.
The violent hand of the persecutoracted as the scattering hand of the sower.
The principal persecutorhad just been converted, and that would somewhat damp the zeal of his followers.
He fell from his warhorse, a persecutorof Christians, and a bitter enemy of Jesus.
For the moment enough had been done to convert the persecutorinto the servant, to level with the ground his self-righteousness, to reveal to him the glorified Jesus, to bend his will and make it submissive.
It is He who appears to the persecutor on the road to Damascus.
But whether swift or slow it was his own act, and after the Voice had spoken it was possible that Paul should have resisted and risen from the ground, not a servant, but a persecutor still.
It was to the whole Church that courage to front the persecutor was imparted.
William Seward landed in England on the 19th of June; and, four months afterwards, was killed by a brutalpersecutor in the principality of Wales.
Where the fear of the persecutor was absent he was also clad in a black gown.
She then became a persecutor in her own dominions of the very ideas she had encouraged in former years.
There are many who do not seem to be sensible that all violence in religion is irreligious, and that, whoever is wrong, the persecutor cannot be right.
Since persecution is invariably wrong, and thepersecutor is generally in the wrong on religious subjects, what must be true of persecuting governments?
Primarily the dragon represents Satan, the great enemy and persecutorof the church in all ages.
Her vow of chastity and the hatred she felt for the persecutor of her sect encouraged her to adopt the counsels of despair.
The warmest pass of arms was that which took place over our photographic negatives, which our persecutor peremptorily required.
He is no longer the victim of appearances, the dupe of his own ignorance, and the persecutor of his fellow-men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persecutor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bully; nag; oppressor; pest; sadist; tease; teaser; torment; tormentor
