The wrongs suffered from the State caused Ralegh to be regarded as a martyr to freedom, which he was not.
His conduct both in Ireland and in England proves that he thought of Irish administration as a weapon of combat for Court ascendency, not as a means of correcting the wrongs of ages.
Easier it were to die than to endure, Unless death brought the instant consciousness Of all the wrongs of all lost years Falling like water, drip after trembling drip Upon the naked anguish of the soul.
On the other hand, as punishers of wrong, the gods of Olympus do not visit all wrongs and all vices alike.
Injuries inflicted upon the Indians First: When a long expedition is to be made, the wrongs which they suffer are many.
A warden has been appointed for them, with judicial authority to punish them; and, according to report, many wrongs and injuries are inflicted upon them.
In regard to clause 20, although it is so necessary, and so deserves to be obeyed, those in power act as if they were ordered to do the very opposite, as is explained above, where I discuss the wrongs that they inflict.
Besides, they have been compelled to sell their goods at much below their value, and have frequently been plundered; and reparation for their wrongs has been denied.
Of these and of other wrongs to individuals so many cases occur that I have been greatly troubled.
These and other wrongs have caused two hundred Sangleys, who came this year to settle here, to return; and of those who were living here two hundred and more have gone away.
Finally he told over the wrongs of the Zaporojians, and began to persuade Zatsvilikhovski to remain with him for good; whereupon the old knight was enraged, sprang up, and went away.
And from whence do you know that I have risen to avenge private wrongs alone?
This was not Hmelnitski the wronged, fleeing to the steppe through the Wilderness, but Hmelnitski the hetman, the spirit of blood, the giant, the avenger of his own wrongs on millions of people.
Tenants and managers of crown estates trembled lest accounts of any of the abuses or wrongs inflicted by them on the people should come to the ears of the prince.
I go to ask reparation for the wrongs inflicted on myself, on you, on the whole Ukraine, with the charter of Cossack rights granted by the king in my hand, and with the hope that our merciful sovereign will not count it evil in me.
Where should I find assistance, where those thousands who have, already taken my side and who are taking it, if I wished merely to redress wrongs of my own?
It is unfortunate, no doubt, but it is likewise inevitable, that at so great a distance of time the rights and wrongs of a conjugal disagreement or estrangement cannot with safety be adjusted.
Betty Cobb, too, has just joined the chorus, and is eloquently interweaving a little episode of Irish wrongs and sorrows into the tissue of Paddy's woes!
Christ, in this your mother-Church, and to own Christ's wrongsas your own wrongs.
Let us stir up ourselves, to lay our Lord's bride and her wrongs before our Husband and Lord.
The wrongs which I suffer are upon record in heaven.
Repair Christ in all His wrongs done to Him, and love Him for a Husband; and He that is a Husband to the widow will be that to you which He hath taken from you.
Dear sister, be patient, for the Lord's sake, under the wrongs that you suffer of the wicked.
The late wrongs and oppressions done to my brother keep my sails low; yet I defy crosses to embark me in such a plea against Christ as I was troubled with of late.
We must do as those who keep the bloody napkin to the Bailie, and let him see blood; we must keep our wrongs to our Judge, and let Him see our bluddered and foul faces.
There is no great reckoning to be made of the withering of my flower, in comparison of the foul and manifest wrongs done to Christ.
Probably these sable Macduffs were invented to avenge the wrongs of their race on tyrants protected by Satanic devices from injury at the hands of Africans of natural birth.
The Southern people might have been spared the humiliation of defeat, and the countless woes and wrongs inflicted on them by their conquerors.
The sun shines brightly overhead; it is a good world to be alive in, its wrongsare being righted, and its very misfortunes are ultimately to bring happier times.
More pitiful than the more obvious wrongs inflicted by this system, is the effect produced upon character.
How one longs for the skill to bring home to our favored English girls and wives and mothers, the awful wrongs and the needs of these their Moslem sisters!
It is an appeal to Christian womanhood to right these wrongs and enlighten this darkness by sacrifice and service.
Therese felt injured now, and Fidele remembered the wrongs and the jealousy of fifteen years.
It was the forgetfulness of petty strife, of family feud, of personal wrongs in the claims of party!
It had been done before, and she had resented it as "cayotin' round;" but now she was eager to pour out her wrongs to the first comer.
The eloquent protest of his wrongs was lost in the ludicrous appearance of the protester.
I grieve to say that here the doughty redresser of domestic wrongs and retriever of the family honor lapsed white-faced in his chair idealess and tremulous.
Mr. Coventry told me how the Committee for Trade have received now all the complaints of the merchants against the Dutch, and were resolved to report very highly the wrongs they have done us, (when God knows!
The children of her persecutors unite with others in a petition to the lawmaking power which was induced to brand her as a criminal, to atone for past wrongs by present relief.
Also he annihilated Hothbrodd himself and all his forces in a naval battle; so avenging fully the wrongs of his country as well as of his brother.
Gotar judged that this affair had been inspired by Siward, and prepared to avenge his wrongs by arms.
This compassion shamed the Russians out of any further rage against such a king, who could not be driven even by the most grievous wrongs to inflict death upon his prisoners.
For he thought so much more of valour than of ease, that, though he was free to enjoy all the pleasures of a king, he accounted it sweeter than any delight to repel the wrongs done, not only to himself, but to others.
Husbands were vexed with fear, and wives with insult to their persons: and to these wrongs folk bowed.
But the story of Daxo and of Ref's gild show that for such wrongs were-gilds were sometimes exacted, and that they were considered highly honourable to the exactor.
All the wrongs of the peddler shone on his brain with a dazzling brightness.
At home it reminds people of the wrongs they have suffered and are suffering at the hands of the Government.
Commenting upon the severity of the sentences inflicted, the Indian press took occasion to point out the grievous wrongs under which the country suffered at the hands of the British.
Once again, the ancient prophecy of peace and good-will shines on a world of wars and wrongs and woes.
Ghosts, it is said, have risen from the grave to reveal wrongs done them by the living; but it needs no ghost from the grave to prove the proverb about republics.
He shouldered his gun and was moving off, when Blanche coldly observed: “It was because I knew of your wrongs that I stopped you; I thought you would be glad to serve me, because I hate the Sairmeuses like you do.
She said to herself that she had only accomplished an act of justice, that in reality her vengeance was scarcely cruel enough for the wrongs she had suffered, and that nothing could indeed fully atone for the tortures inflicted on her.
Nursing for many dark years the bitter wrongs of himself and race had filled him without doubt with a mad spirit of revenge and had given to him a decided predilection for shedding the blood of his oppressors.
I would not care to live in a period when there was no weak part of the human family to be helped up and no wrongs to be righted.
In fact, she acted the part of injured innocence so perfectly that the poor old man would apologize for the wrongs she invented, and try to coax her into a good humor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
