Example Sentences

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I can offer no suggestion as to how the inflictor of the wound got in or out.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel

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

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

"The infliction of pain is only justified when the inflictor is certain, or as nearly certain as he can be, that the pain will be productive of good," said Charles Osmond.

From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna