persecutory
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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They knew, my chiefest Arms left me, were those only which the Ancient Christians were wont to use against their Persecutors, Prayers and Tears.
From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by Charles I, King of England
Persecutors, clothed with a little brief authority, are strangely blind to the plainest indications of the truth spoken by their victims.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander
Sultan enlisted.—Deposition of the Patriarch Stepan.—Banishment of Hohannes.—Zeal of the Persecutors.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Anderson, Rufus
His work On the Death of the Persecutors is written in a bitter spirit, but excellent style.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
My Persecutors, and, indiscreet Physicians will now tell me, thou talkest much of Geese, and knowest not a Duck; who knows whether all what thou writest be true?
From Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented. by Cable, Daniel
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