But when the grief and agitation of his orphaned state had somewhat subsided, and when the persecutors had begun to slacken their fury, we may suppose that he began to examine the harbor of his refuge, and that it pleased him not.
His persecutors then forced the meat into his mouth, but he rejected it, and died under the lash.
Another tradition says, they were aiders of the Spaniards in the conquest of Mexico, and that these became as great persecutors of their people as the Aztecs.
It is the unworthy followers of these great world teachers—worshipers of the letter but not of the spirit of their teaching—who have always been the persecutors of the later prophets and the bitterest opponents of progress.
Note: The alloi were the religious enemies and persecutors of Nicephorus.
Persecutors must expect the hatred of those whom they oppress; but they commonly find some consolation in the testimony of their conscience, the applause of their party, and, perhaps, the success of their undertaking.
He could be gammoned to almost any extent, so much so that after a term or two his persecutors had run through all the tricks they knew, and the unhappy youth was let alone for sheer want of an idea.
He started to run as fast as his long legs would carry him, his night-gown flapping in the evening breeze, and his two persecutors following him with cries of "Booh!
Returning home, potent persecutors cast him into a dungeon.
Many an apostate on both sides seemed converted into zealous penitents; persecutors of the friends with whom they had consorted, and deniers of the very opinions which they had so earnestly propagated.
Such victims were left for hours, until the malignity of their persecutors was satisfied, or until death after long torture released them from a world where under the laws of both Church and State they found their sex to be a crime.
Increase Mather, president of Harvard College, was one of the most bitterpersecutors of witches in New England.
Is it possible to found the holy duties of humanity on a God whose favorites have been inhuman persecutors and cruel monsters?
In the tracery lights above the Martyrs are rather commonplace white and gold angels, but over the Persecutors are fascinating little figures of devils, grey, blue, and green, on a background of ruby flames.
The truth of Pope's assertion, as to the matter of fact, will not bear a rigorous inquisition, as I believe these critical persecutors of good poets to have been extremely few, both in ancient and modern times.
The persecutors who have hunted you into the grave, shall one day share your fate.
Pauli), both notice that during this persecution the desire of the persecutors was to subdue the constancy of the Christians by torture, without gratifying their desire for martyrdom.
Many were burnt alive, and the tortures by which the persecutors sought to shake their resolution were so dreadful that even such a death seemed an act of mercy.
The conception of a converted Empire never appears to have flashed across the mind of the saint;(894) the only triumph he predicted for the Church was that of another world; and to the threats of the persecutors he rejoined by fearful menaces.
As a last warning, calamity after calamity broke upon the world, and, with the solemnity of one on whom the shadow of death had already fallen, St. Cyprian adjured the persecutors to repent and to be saved.
What importance, then, had he, except that importance which his persecutors were most unwisely giving him by breaking through all the fences which guard the lives of Englishmen in order to destroy him?
It stigmatised a whole people, he remarked, as persecutors of innocence, and as men incapable of doing justice, whereas the very reverse was the fact.
This makes such persecutors ten times worse than any of that description that hitherto have been known in the world.
But give to these old persecutors their mistaken principle, in their reasoning they are consistent, and in their tempers they may be even kind and good-natured.
The harsh methods in use with the old class of persecutors were to make converts, not apostates only.
Some of the unhappy assertors of this strange scheme say they are not persecutors on account of religion.
Who would not save his father's life, at the charge of a harmless lie, from persecutors or tyrants?
That change was the first manifestation of the mental revolution, which has suddenly made him one of the leading persecutors of Dr.
His generous indignation against all persecutors makes him severe; and in one of his earlier volumes, while speaking of the famous edicts for the suppression of heresy in the Netherlands, he somewhere uses the word "murder.
By the sentence of her judge, she was ordered to be treated in a most shameful manner, but through a providential interposition she was saved from the ignominy her persecutors intended for her.
So holy was St. Catherine, that, when she died, angels carried her body to Mount Sinai and buried it there, that her persecutors might not discover where she was laid.
Another report represents the Maid's persecutors as being overtaken by more than ordinary misfortunes in their estate, in addition to suffering the torments of accusing consciences.
This being regarded as presumptive evidence of guilt, Wenham's persecutors brought her to trial.
Some of thepersecutors still threatened, but others listened to the promptings of their better nature and gave up the quarrel.
The occupants of every room on the staircase turned out to see the fun, and on hearing of Bailey's contumacy, joined with his persecutors in refusing him the shelter of his own sanctuary.
A rally was sounded by Bailey's foes, but too late; the hero of the day had taken advantage of the momentary pause to dash past his persecutors and gain his study, and once there no force could dislodge him.
Constans serve as a warning to thepersecutors of the church!
The persecutors of Mahomet usurped the inheritance of his children; and the champions of idolatry became the supreme heads of his religion and empire.
The thing that puzzled him most was, how did the persecutors of Miss Morton discover her new address so soon?
She feared to be left alone, and seemed to expect her persecutors to appear from every closet, through every door or window.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "persecutors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
