Use victims in a sentence
Sentences ending with victims
- I have forgotten what Miller Gorse was called; nothing so classic as a Minotaur; Judd Jason was a hairy spider who spread his net and lurked in darkness for his victims. [9]
- It was the voice of suffering womanhood, a sound that goes up day and night, one long chorus of tortured victims. [6]
- It seemed as though the flood-tide of hate had burst its dam and, unfettered, was demanding its victims. [10]
- He came near sharing the fate of Brigond, for the yawl grazed the needle of the rock that, hiding away in the water, with a nose out for destruction, awaits its victims. [11]
- This whole conception of charity is a crime against civilization--I had to have that pointed out to me, too,--this system of legalized or semi-legalized robbery and the distribution of largesse to the victims. [9]
- If she did not succeed, or if he never found strength to rouse himself, he, too, would be one of Caesar's victims. [10]
- This melancholy procession moved silently onwards, like a procession of phantoms, and the ear was only made aware of it when now and then a low groan broke from one of the victims. [10]
- It had been hastily adapted as a hospital for the smallpox victims. [11]
- Her few choices had not been happy, they had failed to interest and thrill... Of the Bumpus family Lise alone found refuge, distraction, and excitement in the vulgar modern world by which they were surrounded, and of whose heedlessness and remorselessness they were the victims. [9]
- But, like certain fruit-trees in our garden which we manure with blood, it has grown great on blood, on the life-juice of its victims. [10]
Sentences containing victims two or more times
- This by and by enabled me to note two things: that he had killed his victims in every quarter of the globe, and that these victims were always named Lynch. [5]
More example sentences with the word victims in them
- There, however, the young couple both fell victims to the climate, and died, leaving a little daughter, Sappho. [10]
- These victims, together with the captains and owners, presently ceased to laugh altogether, and began to rage about the revenge they would take when the passing business 'spurt' was over. [5]
- It is the way of the Alps to deliver death to their victims with a merciful swiftness, but here the rule failed. [5]
- Now they are wandering, forlorn, hopeless, and homeless, the victims of a great disaster. [5]
- They preferred to wait, and toll the victims along, and get to one of their regular burying-places ('bheels') if they could. [5]
- If your lifeless victims yonder were human beings, after all, they would have cause to thank you; for what is existence? [10]
- The number of victims swelled daily, and the approach of the comet kept pace with the growing misery of the town. [10]
- Both had fallen victims on the same day to the plague, the only pestilence that had visited this bright coast within the memory of man. [10]
- They were the victims of an accident, which would be repaired as soon as the fact of their father's wealth had got around. [8]
- And the hapless victims in the arena! [10]
- The three other victims fell nearly four thousand feet, and their bodies lay together upon the glacier when found by Mr. Whymper and the other searchers the next morning. [5]
- According to an understanding with the two victims, he was to have given Backus four queens, but alas, he didn't. [5]
- I got here too late to see the funeral of the 10 victims by the burning of the Pacific hotel in 7th street. [5]
- It was usual to to get the victims to sit down, for that was the handiest position for business. [5]
- Do you want to throw two victims into his jaws instead of one? [10]
- We fell victims to the epidemic and strained every nerve to acquire more "feet. [5]
- It went on to point out how the heathen had devised their gods in the image of weak, sinful, earthly beings, and chosen victims in accordance with this idea. [10]
- I, too, have thought this out, Nancy," I insisted, "and the fact is that in our respective marriages we have been, each of us, victims of our time, of our education. [9]
- His victims sprawled this way and that, but the mob-tide poured over their prostrate forms and dashed itself against the champion with undiminished fury. [5]
- In this state they rush to the great cities for a plunge into their turbid life-baths, with a frantic thirst for every exciting pleasure, which makes them the willing and easy victims of all those who sell the Devil's wares on commission. [6]
- He conjectured that these were remains of the victims of the catastrophe of 1820, and a minute inquest, immediately instituted by the local authorities, soon demonstrated the correctness of his supposition. [5]
- The reading of the stars last night, and the auguries drawn from this morning's victims, portend great changes. [10]
- When I see the multitude of broken and maimed victims of war, well, I feel like Jeremiah; but I feel sad too that these poor fellows and those they love must suffer in order to teach us our lesson--us and England. [11]
- The fight in the church was a short one; the idolaters were soon vanquished; but Eusebius threw himself between them and the monks, and tried to save the victims from the revengeful fury of the conquerors. [10]
- The carpenter and the carver in wood who were responsible for the work had fallen victims to white whiskey on the very last day of their task, and had been driven from the church by the Cure, who then sent for Jo. [11]
- In my judgment such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. [7]
- I caused the stars to be consulted, and the entrails of the victims to be examined, and they were adverse to your request; and yet I could not refuse you, for you are dear to me, and your blood is royal as my own. [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]
- How can she reach these wretched people who are the victims of the ruthless individualism and greed of those who control her? [9]
- Welemisl was to pay the same penalty in money as Herdegen had paid, and in consideration of their having thus made atonement for the blood they had shed, and as their victims had escaped death, they were released from the doom of outlawry. [10]
- The owner usually overlooked the departure of the flocks and herds, and the mob had marked him and his family for the first victims of their fury. [10]
- The poisonous breath of unchecked license had blasted the noble moderation of the vapor of wine which floated round this chaos of riotous topers slowly rose the pale image of Satiety watching for victims on the morrow. [10]
- Perhaps the pleasure of being absorbed is not equal to the pleasure of absorbing, and we cannot say how this proposal will commend itself to the victims of the euthanasia. [4]
- And I--have I not brought Thee many victims, And filled Thy temple with the captive folk? [10]
- Yet it was never their purpose to attack openly, but only when the victims were off their guard. [5]
- The Great Fire must have crackled very loud in their stony ears, and they must have shaken day and night, as the bodies of the victims of the Plague were rattled over the pavements. [6]
- This is the most fascinating of all the different kinds of mining, and furnishes a very handsome percentage of victims to the lunatic asylum. [5]
- On Sunday morning Marya Dmitrievna invited her visitors to Mass at her parish church--the Church of the Assumption built over the graves of victims of the plague. [2]
- The sea has its victims, so had Dicky's tobacco. [11]
- The victims of it were to be pitied and compassionated, just as are the heirs of consumption and other hereditary diseases. [7]
- The congregation gathered in a half-circle round their peaceful brethren, and heard the blessing that their pastor pronounced over the noble victims who had shed their blood in fighting the heathen. [10]
- Yet you are in a dungeon, covered with wounds of my brother's making, both of you victims of others' villainy, and you are yet to bear worse things, for they are to try you for your life. [11]
- I noticed several immense caldron kettles of boiling oil, upon the rims of which little devils sat, with pitchforks in hand, and poked down the helpless victims who floundered in the liquid. [4]
- It seemed as if life were extinct on the huge galley usually swarming with a numerous crew; as if a vessel were about to cast anchor whose sailors had fallen victims to the plague. [10]
- And you, whose honest heart they deceive, are the whistler whom the bird-catcher uses to decoy his feathered victims into the snare. [10]
- My father-in-law, and his daughter Plautilla, my wife, were, it is said, the victims of my fury. [10]
- To his mind his client was not Zeb Meader alone, but the host of victims who had been maimed and bought off because it was cheaper than to give the public a proper protection. [9]
- He imagined to himself vicious and unfortunate people whom he would assist by word and deed, imagined oppressors whose victims he would rescue. [2]
- The gate-keeper informed him that the chief of the kolchytes, and the inspector of victims from the temple of Anion, desired to speak with him. [10]
- Orion spoke to him encouragingly, and told him that he had come, not merely to give the terrible news, but to hold council with him as to how the innocent victims might be rescued. [10]
- And now, before her inward eye, rose the crowd of victims to Caracalla's thirst for blood. [10]
- No matter if he does Number Five is a kind of Circe who does not turn the victims of her enchantment into swine, but into lambs. [6]
- They certainly must have been among the spectators and have fallen victims to the sword of the slaughterer. [10]
- No wild revolutionary has been endowed with a giant's strength to burst the bonds of the victims asunder. [10]
- The unwholesome three had shared his moral lapse with wide-open eyes, and were in no sense victims of his; but, disregarding their responsibility, they had, from sheer jealousy, wrecked his past, and, to their own surprise, had wrecked themselves as well. [11]
- Also, once she had saved a settlement by riding ahead of a marauding Indian band to warn their intended victims, and had averted another tragedy of pioneer life. [11]
- The man who had formerly been his friend was now completely obliterated, and he had the feeling almost of being about to grapple, in mortal combat, with some unknown monster whose tactics and resources were infinite, whose victims had never escaped. [9]
- In every Northern graveyard slumber the victims of this destroying struggle. [6]
- Yet he had gone at once to the Stag, and pronounced the patients there to be the victims of severe poisoning. [10]
- At length evening fell after those fearful midday hours; and as a cool breeze rose shortly before sunset to fan their moist brows, the hapless victims awoke to new energies. [10]
- Subliminal desires, subliminal fears, when they break down the censor of law, are apt to inspire fanatical creeds, to wind about their victims the flaming flag of a false martyrdom. [9]
- I fancy his family believe themselves victims of it. [8]
- But perhaps an exchange was effected.--Did you slaughter any victims here yesterday or--? [10]
- He saw them discharge their pistols, and then resort to the cutlass and the dagger; and the marines bringing down their victims from the masts of the French flag- ship. [11]
- This has already decided my sentence as to Eulaeus and his unhappy victims before I read your petition. [10]
- In the above case the victims selected under the tabu would be sacred to the sacrifice] in which destruction impended, was past. [5]
- Katharina's report took but few minutes, and she gave it with apparent indifference; what could the suppression of an orthodox cloister, and the dispersion of its heretic sisterhood, matter to her, or to Orion, whose brothers had fallen victims to Melchite fanaticism? [10]
- I had been blind to their suffering, but Moses opened my eyes and sowed in my heart hate, intense hate of their oppressors, and from this hate sprang love for the victims. [10]
- Still, though distressed at the thought of her vehement father in prison, she shed no tears, but told herself that matters could only be mended by rational action on behalf of the victims, and not by lamentations. [10]
- The taricheutes looked at each other, whispered together; then one of them went away, and returned soon with the inspector of victims from the temple of Anion, whom he had found in the house of the weaver, and the chief of the kolchytes. [10]
- It lay in ashes, and the victims were already many: two brothers, father, mother--and, far away from home, Rufinus too. [10]
- Time and thirst are two things you and I talk about; but the victims whom holy men and righteous judges used to stretch on their engines knew better what they meant than you or I!--What is that great bucket of water for? [6]
- We are the annual victims of the delusion that there exists somewhere the ideal spot where manners are simple, and milk is pure, and lodging is cheap, where we shall fall at once into content. [4]
- Compose thy soul, and I pray only the Effendina to give thee that seemly death thou didst deny thy victims. [11]
- Had he, Heinz, accompanied Hartmann to the Rhine and been permitted to remain with him, neither or both would have fallen victims to the river! [10]
- There should be a rush from Europe and America to that place; and when the victims of alcoholism find out what they can get by going there, the rush will begin. [5]
- The city was a pit of infamy, where struggled, or wallowed, or died to the bellowing of the Khalifa's drum and the hideous mirth of his Baggaras, the victims of Abdullah. [11]
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