I have not entered upon these details, to enumerate the people whom Philip has oppressed and wronged, but to show you that Philip will not desist from wronging all people and pursuing his conquests, until an effort is made to prevent him.
If you think that nobody would know that a girl in the company had married a baronet who was a member of parliament and expected to be in the Cabinet in a few years, you're wronging him!
One may be wronging Uncle Chris, but to the eye of the casual observer he seemed in these days of trial to be having the time of his life.
I expected to hear you say this," he said calmly; "but you are wronging the youth.
But if I can keep back the wicked man from further wickedness by speaking civilly to him, and not contemptuously, I am not wronging nor deceiving him, but on the contrary doing well by him.
Is it true, or not, that you have acted like a tyrant by your people, robbing and wrongingthem fearfully?
We intend henceforth to pay neither tax nor tribute to any outsider, and we shall render forced labour to no man; but we will live justly and peaceably, wronging none either in life or property.
This law was made For suchlike cautions to restrain the base From wronging noble persons by attempts Of such a kind; but where equality Meets in the match, the fault is pardonable.
Can there be any Age, or dayes, or time, Or tongues of men, guilty so great a crime As wronging simple Maid?
Keep us from stealing or wronging our neighbour in his property, from perverting justice, from false witnessing and deceit, from slandering, backbiting, uncharitable censuring or other wrong to the reputation of our neighbours.
Keep us from theft and oppression, and any way wronging our neighbour in his property and estate.
Have you nothing on your soul but an inordinate desire to preserve your place in your uncle's will, even at the risk of breaking my heart and wronging your noble cousin?
You have shown her to be secret, sly, and unprincipled; capable of wronging those to whom she was most bound, her uncle and her husband.
Lot said unto them, O my people, these my daughters are more lawful for you: therefore fear GOD, and put me not to shame by wronging my guests.
They are wronging their own sex by proving false to its best traditions, and they are wronging civilization by attempting to revive methods of savagery which it is civilization's mission to repress.
A lovelier faith their happier crown, But history laughs and weeps it down: Know they not well how seven times seven, Wronging our mighty arms with rust, We dared not do the work of heaven, Lest heaven should hurl us in the dust?
I know he is; but I blame him for injuring his health and wronging his family, in order to pay a few hundred dollars to men a thousand times better off in the world than he is.
I was not worth a dollar in the world; and the thought of wronging those who had trusted me in full reliance upon my integrity, produced a feeling of suffocation.
I am not willing to become a party in wronging my neighbors.
Jessy had set her love's first music to the broad, artistic heart of Petralto; she could not, without wronging herself, decline to a lower range of feelings and a narrower heart.
At last he acknowledged all, told Archie that if he made known his loss, he also must confess that he had knowingly harbored an acknowledged thief, and tacitly given him the opportunity of wronging his employer.
Here is noted that, whereas men in wronging their best friends use to extenuate their fault, as if they might presume or be bold upon them, it doth contrariwise indeed aggravate their fault, and turneth it from injury to impiety.
You can't imagine how she lectures me: I am disobedient and ungrateful; I am thwarting her wishes, wronging my brother, and making myself a burden on her hands.
You would be wronging the girl, if she were what she ought to be; but I assure you she is as artful a little hussy as anybody need wish to see; and you'll got entangled in her snares before you know where you are.
For beside the evil I spoke of that comes from wronging God, I tell you that such action is ruin to your peace.
Many a time he says, 'It seems to me that I am wronging God in this: free me from wrong, and let what He wills be done.
The first is that you are wronging God by it, for you cannot do it with a good conscience.
But you talk bad talk, and entice young women, who are wanting to withdraw from going to these things through love of virtue, because they see that it is wronging God.
Pray ye be at peace, I am so far from wronging ye, Or glorying in the pride of such a victory, That I desire to serve ye, pray look chearfully.
I may live up to my income without actually wronging others--but not beyond it.
You see, Maggie, you are not wronging any one by your bad temper and your stubbornness as much as you are wronging yourself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wronging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
