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Example sentences for "revilings"

Lexicographically close words:
revile; reviled; revilers; reviles; reviling; revisal; revise; revised; reviser; revisers
  1. Before the second session of the Imperial Parliament assembled, he had been borne to the grave amid the revilings and hootings of the multitude.

  2. For two whole days did he persist in this magnanimous resolution, during which his house was besieged by the rabble, and menaces and clamorous revilings exhausted to no purpose.

  3. Such like revilings they hurled at each other.

  4. What a fool I am to come so many miles to hear such revilings from a divinity!

  5. Immediately Mrs. Kennedy filled the house with her lamentations, and mingled with them were cursings and revilings of Poppy.

  6. Poppy waited until his cursings and revilings were only faintly heard on the air, then slipping quietly through the camp which had returned to peaceful sleeping, she plunged into the clouds of dust.

  7. Neither the penalties nor the revilings of the world trouble him.

  8. When he testifies that his hope is placed where neither persecutions nor revilings avail against it, his life must show him fearless of what the world can do.

  9. Behold, thy Lord Jesus goeth before thee, pursued with the curses and revilings of the Pharisees!

  10. Who is there that reads these revilings of Bunyan for his poverty and mean descent, but must be struck with the unsearchable wisdom of the Almighty.

  11. The taunts and revilings of a poet laureate upon Bunyan's preaching and sufferings need only a passing notice.

  12. But whereinsoever he has cast any revilings or calumnies against the grain itself, its faith is tried on earth, and its reward increased in the heavens.

  13. Do not allow that any one should be prejudiced by revilings irrelevant to the matter in hand.

  14. The suras of the period are full of revilings and threats against them, and form a greater contrast coming after the later Meccan suras wherein Israel was honoured and its heroes held up as examples.

  15. As to the proud sultana, she was borne away prisoner and loaded with revilings as having upheld her son in his rebellion and fomented a civil war.

  16. Dare, dear Miss, to follow His good example, and never fear the revilings of men.

  17. Then you will be called to answer for your revilings and mockings against the people of God.

  18. Every man and every woman present may do something, by showing that we fear not a mob, and in the midst of revilings and threatenings, pleading the cause of those who are ready to perish.

  19. Sometimes the revilings of the women were almost equalled by similar talk among the men, as in a village of Gawar, where they said, "We would not receive a priest or deacon here who could not swear well, and lie too.

  20. Blows and revilings had been patiently endured, but he was actuated by no tame or servile spirit.

  21. I have patiently endured revilings and blows, but I shall not needlessly expose myself to new insults.

  22. His sarcasms or revilings had become indifferent to me, as every day's experience had of late convinced me that in no valuable attribute was he anywise superior to his sister.

  23. Else, could I hear the perpetual revilings of her implacable family?

  24. The danger of such a crisis was heightened by the bitter taunts that broke forth from fifty profane lips, which were only opened to lavish the coarsest revilings on the persons and characters of their respective enemies.

  25. Persecutions without end, Revilings and many prisons, Death and murder; These hast thou suffered with love and patience, Forgiving thine executioners.

  26. This last anguish had left her like a corpse before the crowd had changed all its impatient revilings into compassion.

  27. Coarse words and harsh revilings passed by her, but save a quiver of the eyelids, you would not have known that she heard them.

  28. For there are revilings in plenty for both of us to utter--a hundred-thwarted ship would not suffice for the load of them.

  29. Therefore were it well that thou shouldest not have kings in thy mouth as thou talkest, and utter revilings against them and be on the watch for departure.

  30. Either they came not in the company from lovely Lakedaimon; or they came hither indeed in their seafaring ships, but now will not enter into the battle of the warriors, for fear of the many scornings and revilings that are mine.

  31. Though the immortal gods made him a spearman, do they therefore put revilings in his mouth for him to utter?

  32. Come, bear up thy unwearying spear against him, let him no wise turn thee back with revilings and bitter words.

  33. These former enemies rose up against me with the most touching unanimity, and so overwhelmed me with revilings and threats that I left the room.


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