"Persecute" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of her frivolity." A slight, shrewish flavor crept into Eulalie's smooth voice. "The way she used to persecute me ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various
... "That woman seems to—persecute us!" burst out Mollie, when the girls were well on their way again, out of range of the sand dunes, going down the beach where the salty air of the ocean and ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View - Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand • Laura Lee Hope
... of man is as strong and piercing as the thorn of the jungle. With eyes of suspicion and venomous anger do they accuse and persecute them who believe upon ...
— Buddhist Psalms • Shinran Shonin
... the number of persons together, to whom all things were so visibly both seen and done, so that surely it exceeds any other; for the devils thus manifesting themselves, it appears evidently that there are such things as devils, to persecute the wicked in this ...
— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott
... that I know of, fair one; and you do me too much honor to care about my mood. Understand me once for all. I am not a Dr. Grimshaw, in any phase of that gentleman's character. I am neither the tyrant who will persecute you to exact your attention, nor yet the slave who will follow and coax and whine and wheedle for your favor. In either character I should despise myself too ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
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