Example Sentences

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It is the impression itself that is injuring the cause of peace, and will continue to injure it until it is removed.

From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.

But when a girl learns she is injuring herself, she should stop the practice and allow Nature to repair the wound.

From Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves by Lowry, Edith B. (Edith Belle)

As has been already suggested, he knows that he is exercising more or less dominion over property, or that he is injuring it; he must make good his right if it is challenged.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Tell him that he is injuring himself, and is a misery to every one else—that you are only keeping him, because it would do him harm to be removed.”

From The Lady of the Basement Flat by Earnshaw, Elizabeth

He thinks he is injuring no one but himself with this business, and he is willing to pay the price; but the fact is he is putting other people in peril—me among the rest.

From The Auction Block by Beach, Rex Ellingwood