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Sentences ending with victim

If he is your husband, wouldn't it be better to have him successful than your defeated victim. [11]
In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
As soon as we were released from our burden we returned for the second victim. [10]
Fate demands a victim. [10]
It was a very great and sincere pleasure to me to see the thing repeated--with somebody else as victim. [5]
Kruger will put up the price to the full capacity of the victim. [11]
It amused her, too, to see what the domestic difficulties were of which the singer had described himself as being a victim. [10]
It is only those who live to remember and to lament that the suffering comes which has been spared the victim. [4]
Jethro sat by the window, to all appearances oblivious to the tortures of his victim. [9]
I was entering the lists to either destroy knight-errantry or be its victim. [5]

Short sentences using victim

A victim of treachery. [5]
Away from the hapless victim! [10]

Sentences containing victim two or more times

She was the victim of more than accident of fate--a victim to some deep plot the mystery of which burned him. [13]
He, of whose unflinching, dauntless courage she had heard so much, had fled like a coward, and had left the victim to her fate--twice a victim to him! [10]
In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses. [2]

More example sentences with the word victim in them

You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
I said I would rather be Anson dead than Mrs. Anson living; I would rather be the active than the passive sinner; the victim, than a part of that great and cruel machine of penalty. [11]
Paulus did not withdraw, he accepted the blow from his victim as a gift or a greeting, thinking, "Aye, and I only wish you had a dagger in your hand; I would not resist you. [10]
So, during this whole sad period I was rarely utterly wretched, often joyous and happy, though sometimes the victim to the keenest spiritual anguish. [10]
The clay Eros, who with bent knee was aiming at a victim visible to himself alone, was also his work. [10]
The calaboose victim was not a citizen; he was a poor stranger, a harmless whiskey-sodden tramp. [5]
Such a victim was good-hearted, simple natured young Yates (I use a fictitious name, but the real name began, as this one does, with a Y). [5]
Of course the wagon load of rich ore was all that the victim ever got out of his purchase. [5]
At first his victim refused point-blank, and with great brevity. [5]
To be the victim of an error--to go to the bar of justice with the hand of injustice on his arm! [11]
Was he the victim of a delusion? [10]
Jones "let his victim down easy" with friendly words, but it was the end, for the present, at least, of machine financiering. [5]
Murray Bradshaw was very curious to find out how it was that he had become the victim of such a rudimentary miss as Susan Posey. [6]
He had always used that same consecrated knife; with it he had murdered his long array of Lynches, and with it he had left upon the forehead of each victim a peculiar mark--a cross, deeply incised. [5]
Tom rained cuffs upon the head and its shield, saying no word: the victim received each blow with a beseeching, "Please, Marse Tom!--oh, please, Marse Tom! [5]
Woe to the unfortunate victim she overtook! [9]
He is accustomed to the phrases with which the plausible visitor, who has a subscription book in his pocket, prepares his victim for the depressing disclosure of his real errand. [6]
She came now to serve the blind victim of that Fate which she had seen hovering over him. [11]
He had intended to send Wolf, the friend and housemate of his victim, to Spain to become the instructor of his deceived wife. [10]
Could he venture to remain here near his victim, or was it his duty to use his powerful arms in defence of his helpless companions? [10]
A victim said to one of these fellows one day: "But I know I hired the horse of you, because I noticed that scar on your cheek. [5]
Pilgrims, always prone to find prophecies in the Bible, and often where none exist, speak cheerfully and complacently of poor, ruined Ephesus as the victim of prophecy. [5]
They both fell to earth; the Moor placed his knee upon the breast of his victim, and, brandishing his dagger, aimed a blow at his throat. [4]
One thing seemed to be sufficiently demonstrated: our current was so tremendous that it killed before the victim could cry out. [5]
I want him to be free to come and go anywhere in the world --to return to England if he wishes it, to be a free man, and not a victim Off Outlawry. [11]
I mentioned his throwing down his glove, which was not taken up by the brother of his victim, and so he had to be let off, for the old law was still in force. [6]
Caracalla started as though he himself had been the injured victim, and watched, but in vain, to see the supple Tarautas, who had escaped such perils before now, free himself from the weight of the German's body. [10]
He was at this time a victim to a fresh attack, and had therefore sent his confidential steward into the town to tell Heron that he approved of his son's choice, and that he would protect Alexander from pursuit. [10]
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? [6]
He was still the victim to a poison which gave not only a struggle of body, but a struggle of soul--if he had a soul. [11]
I have been the victim of romance, not its interpreter. [11]
She had been the victim of possession, which had meant no more to her than to be, as it were, subjected daily to the milder tortures of the Inquisition. [11]
Fancy this party the victim of political exile, banished by the law, and a more sorrowful march could not be imagined; but the voluntary hardship becomes pleasure, and it is undeniable that the spirits of the party rise as the difficulties increase. [4]
Orion had been the victim of blow on blow from Fate--Paula had looked forward to his return with an anxious and aching heart; to-day how calm were their souls, though both stood in peril of death. [10]
Many a man, the victim of a slip or a misstep, has plunged down on of these and met his death. [5]
He called himself the victim of a cruel, inexorable fate, and felt like a bunted animal driven to its last gasp and hearing the dogs and sportsmen fast coming nearer. [10]
Then she raised the tiny blood-stained weapon for a second stroke; but ere she could give her enemy another thrust, Ephraim flung himself between her and her victim and wrenched the dagger from her grasp. [10]
As soon as the right victim could be found, the people should be invited to give their consent. [10]
He was only the pitiable victim of his birth and of a cruel fate. [10]
I had seen the heads and faces of ten youths gashed in every direction by the keen two-edged blades, and yet had not seen a victim wince, nor heard a moan, or detected any fleeting expression which confessed the sharp pain the hurts were inflicting. [5]
He had escaped--as the fisherman explained--a great danger; for had he gone to the other island, which swarmed with venomous serpents, he might easily have fallen a victim to the bite of one of the reptiles. [10]
Do you remember the excitement aroused four years ago by the duel, in which the Marquis d'Avennes fell a victim to a Spanish brawler? [10]
For long afterwards the baboon rejoiced and triumphed whenever he saw his victim. [1]
Though when to the altar a victim I go, Aunt Tabitha'll tell me she never did so! [6]
He soon discovered that the story had got about the village that Maurice Kirkwood was the victim of an "antipathy," whatever that word might mean in the vocabulary of the people of the place. [6]
He only realised that Sinnet was not the man he was waiting for with murder in his heart; and all that mattered to him in life was the coming of his victim down the trail. [11]
Then I saw that I had been sold--that I had been made a victim of a swindle in the way of a string of plausibly worded sentences that didn't mean anything under the sun. [5]
He ever held that he was peaceful, and it is recorded that at the death of an agitated victim, he begged him to "sit still and not fidget. [11]
Miss Trevor's behavior that evening was so unrestful as to lead me to believe that she, too, was going through qualms of sympathy for the victim. [9]
She was still sure that she had been the victim of a hallucination which, emerging from her sleep, had invaded the borders of wakefulness, and then had reproduced itself in a waking illusion--an imitation of its original existence. [11]
He ordered numberless steers to be sacrificed, and thanksgiving festivals to be held throughout the land; but he was cut to the heart by the betrayal to which he had fallen a victim. [10]
Unmindful of her stealthy tread, her victim holds his course in fancied triumph. [12]
In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. [6]
Nor did they speak without reason; fever was preparing a victim for the sacrifice at Rahway, and Louis Bachelor was fed with its poison till he grew haggard and weak. [11]
In the briefest space it struck down and swept away even the most vigorous victim. [5]
But there would soon be a blaze of light, and what misery must await the hapless victim of her faithlessness, still so far from perfect health! [10]
She saw her son go to this hopeless conflict like a garlanded victim to the altar. [10]
The likeness was so perfect, and his judgment so weakened by wine and fever, that he fancied himself the victim of some spell, and yet could not turn his eyes from those dear features. [10]
She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. [5]
The Immortals had shown him peculiar favor, but still he was but a man; that he realized from the pain in his wound, and the treason to which he had been a victim. [10]
Dreading lest thou shouldst be this victim, my father, I sped hither. [10]
If a man shivered in fear, or staggered from weakness, or for very hunger turned sick, he was marked as a victim, and despite his protests was huddled away with the real victims to die the awful death. [11]
If you find she was not in her right mind, that she was the victim of insanity, hereditary or momentary, as it has been explained, your verdict will take that into account. [5]
His push had sent Horapollo tottering to some distance; and when the old man had pulled himself together, to throw himself once more on his victim, he found himself the centre of a fight. [10]
It will be seen at once how such a congenital antipathy would tend to isolate the person who was its unfortunate victim. [6]
At first it seemed to her that a trap had been set, and that David was to be the victim of Oriental duplicity; but revolt, as she did, from the miserable creature before them, she saw at last that he spoke the truth. [11]
Myrtle no sooner saw the little accident of which her rural friend was the victim than she left her place in the dance with a simple courage which did her credit. [6]
She was that saddest of human beings, a victim of dual forces which so fought for mastery with each other that, while the struggle went on, the soul had no firm foothold anywhere. [11]
The longer the procession lasted and the nearer the looked-for victim approached, the more eagerly attent were the gazing multitude. [10]
Maitre Fille was possessed of a superstition that all the things which threaten a man's life to wreck it, operate awhile in their many fields before they converge like an army in one field to deliver the last attack on their victim. [11]
It guyed its poor victim, baited him, worried him, as dogs do with a cornered cat. [5]
The odds being overwhelming, the master of Mohair had at length fallen a victim to his own good cheer. [9]
He walked slowly over, and stood looking at his victim for some time without speaking. [11]
A single victim only was sacrificed there. [7]
Why should this one man who seemed capable and had the temperament of the Irish hills and vales be the victim of punishment and shame--why should he shame her? [11]
She rushed from one door to another--the victim of the avenging Eumenides--shrieked from the window for rescue and help, and in that one hour lived through a whole year of agonies and terrors. [10]
But all at once, through the groans of the victim in the chair, Terry became conscious of noises outside--such noises as he had heard before he entered the house, only nearer and louder. [11]
No convulsive effort on the part of the victim could loosen that terrible grip; but the horses, responding to the first jerk of the reins following the attack, stood still, while a human soul was being wrenched out of the world behind them. [11]
As she proceeded on her journey she felt that she could have thrown herself like a tigress on her victim, and yet--like an outcast woman--have flung herself at Publius' knees in supplication for the love that was denied her. [10]
Hail, noble victim of the ungrateful Olympians! [10]
Everything we know of the prisoner goes to show that if he had been sane at the time, he would have shot his victim from behind. [5]
If the despot of the Patent-Annunciator is only mildly contemptuous in his manner, let the victim look upon it as a personal favor. [6]
The remorseless vengeance of the law, brought down upon its victim by a machinery as sure as destiny, is arrested in its fall at a word which reveals her transient claim for mercy. [3]
For her gifts of place or fortune she puts some impossible hunger in the soul of the victim which leads him at last to his own destruction. [11]
Presently the look of agonised dismay gave way to such an expression of relief as might come upon the face of a reprieved victim about to be given to the fire, or to the knife that flays. [11]
And this thought occurred to him just because he himself desired a victim, something on which to vent his rage. [2]
Money being the object, the man having money, whether loyal or disloyal, would be a victim. [7]
As she made none, he took upon himself to settle the whole matter without further torture of his helpless victim. [6]
I ascertained to my satisfaction that she was beautiful, and, from the paleness of her cheek, that she was a victim rather than a votary. [4]
He had been moved to come from a whisper in his soul; and he had the sure conviction of the predestinarian that he was not to be the victim of "The Scytheman" before his appointed time. [11]
Whoever his enemies may have been,--if they really existed,--he did not fall a victim to their plots, so far as known to or remembered by this witness. [6]
She was a match for the others, but a conspiracy--ah, nobody is a match for that, when the victim that is to be injured is weak and willing. [5]
Two ropes were made fast to his leather belt and he bore the end of a third one in his hand to tie to the victim in case he found him. [5]
She seemed to Lord Mallow like one who had perfect control of herself, and was not the victim of anticipation. [11]
There was a long silence, and, forgetful for the moment of his own predicament, Wetherell found a fearful fascination in watching the contortions of the victim whose punishment was to precede his. [9]
I could not let him go unpunished and so I have killed two birds with one stone: to appease the mob I gave them a victim and at the same time punished a miscreant. [2]
The victim is lashed by his wrists to a capstan-bar in the ship's long-boat, and all the ship's boats are lowered also, and each ship in harbour sends a boat manned by marines to attend. [11]
When I first laid eyes on this fine gentleman, General Wilkinson, I too fell a victim to his charms. [9]
Paula, who but just now had regarded herself as a persecuted victim of Fate, now breathed more freely in the belief that she too might bring joy to some one. [10]
But if the Jupiter, Who passes his opinion on the novel, ever happens to peruse it in some weary moment of his subsequent life, we hope that he will not be the victim of a remorse bitter but too late. [5]

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