Example Sentences

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And then I say to myself: 'You have reviled and slandered yourself; you are, after all, a good angel; God is with you, and prayer, love, and innocence, are in your heart.'

From Napoleon and Blucher by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

I have not only wronged him by my suspicions, but I have reviled him.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

I pray for those who have reviled and condemned me.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew

If you had in good earnest despised him, you would have let him alone, as he does Dr. Ward, Mr. Baxter, Pike, and others, that have reviled him as you do.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

I have reviled no man’s person: I have outraged no man’s privacy. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund