Example Sentences

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But it is also plain that the decay had begun when the Puritan was the victim instead of the inflictor of persecution.

From English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The Gorgon is the power of evil in heaven, conquered by Athena, and thenceforward becoming her ægis, when she is herself the inflictor of evil.

From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by Ruskin, John

He felt himself set at nought; felt death itself despised, as if in despite of the inflictor.

From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Tasso, Torquato

If any one ventured to complain, 'twas the sufferer, not the inflictor who was treated as culpable.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

IV On ocean where the embattled fleets repair, Man, suffering inflictor, sails on sufferance     there.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman