Example Sentences

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It suffers, then, because it has to work in its chains; yes, spiritual self-will suffers under the delusion that it is wronging God, while the trouble is really with its own lower nature.

From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

She little realizes how she is wronging her Lord, and how real is the wall of separation between them.

From Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by Taylor, James Hudson

You, they tell you, ought to remain quiet, even when you are wronged; but they cannot remain quiet in your presence, even when no one is wronging them.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace

In them appears also her strength of nature; they are the love-calls of a woman who knows that the man she continues to set far above all the rest of humanity is wronging her.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

I bring her a message from an old man whom, by her absence, she is wronging.

From A Monk of Cruta by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)