Example Sentences

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They will harry him before magistrates, no doubt; and they will squeeze him in private.

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh

"I shall make them conform themselves," he had said, "or I will harry them out of the land."

From This Country of Ours by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Others will harry germs and compose symphonies and perhaps some will write huge stacks of novels as high as those of Wells himself.

From Seeing Things at Night by Broun, Heywood

Therefore said King James, "I shall make them conform themselves, or I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse".

From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Rait, Robert S.

They will catch it again when Commodus turns on his mistress Marcia; he will harry them all the more when that day comes— as it is sure to.

From Caesar Dies by Mundy, Talbot