Use wrongs in a sentence
Sentences starting with wrongs
- Wrongs there certainly had been in his life, by whomever committed. [11]
Sentences ending with wrongs
- A cynical cosmopolitanism would have left her cold, but here, apparently, was a cultivated man burning with a sense of the world's wrongs. [9]
- Don't you think that's a strong list of grievances and wrongs? [11]
- I was sure that his second shot had not been meant for me, but for the Intendant--a wild attempt at a revenge, long delayed, for the worst of wrongs. [11]
- One day I shall be righted, but what can you say or do to right her wrongs? [11]
- There was no one to tell them the wrongs they were committing--if they were indeed wrongs. [9]
- I think it just to say that all true men North should sympathize with them, and ought to be willing to do any possible and needful thing to right their wrongs. [7]
- F. I am here, the genius of the age, and the avenger of my wrongs. [5]
- Of visitors they had few, if any, and the young wife was left alone to brood upon her wrongs. [11]
- So his life had been spoiled by the most cruel disappointments, by a succession of the bitterest wrongs. [10]
- There's none ever can be so near as those that have had hard troubles, that have had bitter wrongs. [11]
Short sentences using wrongs
- To them her wrongs briefly. [6]
Sentences containing wrongs two or more times
- These little, shabby wrongs upbraided me and tortured me, and with a pain much sharper than one feels when the wrongs have been done to the living. [5]
- We know that great political and moral wrongs are done, and outrages committed, and we denounce those wrongs and outrages, although we cannot, at present, do much more. [7]
More example sentences with the word wrongs in them
- Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
- I had my wrongs, and I had my rights, and you were mine by Romany law. [11]
- Through all the wrongs which she may suffer by him, there runs this cable of unhappy attraction, testified to by how many sorrowful lives! [11]
- You see the wrongs we've suffered, and how bad it all is! [11]
- I have had wrongs that you do not know. [11]
- I know the wrongs of the colonies, which you yourself have put as clear as I wish to hear, despite Mr. Burke and his eloquence. [9]
- Out of her wrongs and miseries now she made a path for her future, and in that path Philip's foot should never be set. [11]
- Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
- Our quarrel is with Parliament and the Admiralty; our struggle is with the people of the kingdom, who have not seen to it that our wrongs are put right, that we have food to eat, water to drink, and money to spend. [11]
- And again, as when swept along East Street with the mob, that sense of identity with these people and their wrongs, of submergence with them in their cause possessed her. [9]
- I don't know what definite wrongs he has done to other persons. [9]
- But the day went on and the old mother forgot all the wrongs that she had suffered, and yearned over the trivial woman who was hurrying out into the Great Space. [11]
- The proud conqueror was not displeased at these signs of sympathy, and turning to the Athenian: "I think, my Greek friend" he said, "we may consider our wrongs as avenged. [10]
- Not a topic was broached by Mr. Walpole or Mr. Fox, from the remonstrance of the Archbishop against masquerades and the coming marriage of my Lord Albemarle to the rights and wrongs of Mr. Wilkes, but my lady had her say. [9]
- The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on. [2]
- Their business is to so mix the real wrongs of our social life with imaginary hardships, and to heighten the whole with illusory and often debasing theories, that discontent will be engendered. [4]
- Shame for consenting to keep his unearned titles, property, and privileges--at the expense of other people; shame for consenting to remain, on any terms, in dishonourable possession of these things, which represented bygone robberies and wrongs inflicted upon the general people of the nation. [5]
- It seemed as though she were giving vent to the suppressed feelings, imaginations, sufferings and wrongs of years. [11]
- This subject of the wrongs of the colonies was the only one I could ever be got to study at King William's School, and I believe that my intimate knowledge of it gave the captain a surprise. [9]
- Veer lightly from the stress of all great wrongs, And lisp of peace 'mid battle-flags unfurled? [11]
- In the Homes the battered veterans speak mainly of one thing; and in the monotony of their spent lives develop whimseys and rights and wrongs, patriotic ardors and criticisms on their singular fate, which are original in their character in our society. [4]
- Possibly he wondered that Voban did not strike, and he himself took a delight in showing him his own wrongs occasionally. [11]
- I grant you that those who are overworked and underfed, who are burning with the consciousness of wrongs, who have no outlook ahead, are essentially hopeless and miserable. [9]
- It was certain that she had champions who thought that her wrongs ought to be placed against her crime, and expressions of this feeling came to her in various ways. [5]
- Forget the wrongs that may have been done you. [2]
- By carrying the sword into Egypt, I shall avenge king Hophra's wrongs as well as my own. [10]
- Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged. [7]
- Would the jury say that this retributive justice, inflicted by an outraged, and deluded woman, rendered irrational by the most cruel wrongs, was in the nature of a foul, premeditated murder? [5]
- Doubtless there may prove to be wrongs which demand righting, but the pretence of any plan for changing the essential principle of our self-governing system is a figment which its contrivers laugh over among themselves. [6]
- It seemed to Pierre after a time that Gaspard's wrongs were almost his own. [11]
- And with renewed physical energy she began to experience once more a sense of fellowship with these free and daring spirits who sought to avenge her wrongs and theirs. [9]
- Rising above mere personal wrongs she grew to a larger sense of womanhood, to a true understanding of her position and its needs. [11]
- The blood which our best and bravest have shed will never sink into the ground until our wrongs are righted, or the power to right them is shown to be insufficient. [6]
- Since every hope of the happiness awaiting her was destroyed, she no longer sought to palliate the wrongs Hermon had inflicted upon her. [10]
- It is one of the great privileges of fiction to right the wrongs of life, to do justice to the deserving and the vicious. [4]
- That throwing out of my house hit me and my woman and little ones hard, and I've been resentin' it all these years till now; but I'm weighin' one thing agin another, and I'm willing to forget my wrongs for this young man's sake. [11]
- Whenever I read of Indian resignation, Indian patience under wrongs, hardships, and misfortunes, he comes before me. [5]
- Glimpses I caught of faces that have come Through crowding ages; whisperings of songs; And prayers for the redress of human wrongs From voices that upon the earth are dumb. [11]
- Oh, I do not know the rights or wrongs of that great case at law; I only know that Louis Racine was not the judge or jury, but the avocat only, whose duty it was to do as he did. [11]
- It is human nature, it is the lesson of history, that real wrongs, unredressed, grow into preposterous demands. [4]
- I was deeply moved by his statement of the wrongs done to free-State men out there. [7]
- Nothing is a mistake which comes of a good aim, of the desire for wrongs righted, the crooked places made straight. [11]
- I know of men who, fevered with bad food, have fallen, from the mainmast-head, or have slipped overboard, glad to go, because of the wrongs they'd suffered. [11]
- Who had taken me to the humble cottage under Criffel, who had poured into my ear his ambitions and his wrongs when we had sat together in the dingy room of the Castle Yard sponging-house. [9]
- There are, moreover, many cases in which the United States or their citizens suffer wrongs from the naval or military authorities of foreign nations which the governments of those states are not at once prepared to redress. [7]
- There are too many absentee owners of land in this island, and the wrongs done by agents who have no personal honour at stake are all too plentiful. [11]
- He had not lied directly to her when he said that he had had deep trouble; but he had given the impression that he was suffering from wrongs which had broken his spirit and ruined his health. [11]
- Men have been killed for lesser wrongs, but the right to kill does not belong to you. [11]
- But with all its injustice, with all its surrender of personal liberty, it seeks to call the attention of the world to certain hideous wrongs, to which the world is likely to continue selfishly indifferent unless rudely shaken out of its sense of security. [4]
- And no matter how able your board, in making restitution you could at best expect to mend only a fraction of the wrongs you have done. [9]
- I will injure him, and help everyone that persecutes him; for though Assa is dead, the wrongs he did me live in me so long as I live myself. [10]
- When I shall have revealed to you the storms she went through, and the wrongs and persecutions, then you will see that it was wonderful that she said but one bitter thing while she lived. [5]
- How many wrongs have been done under that clause! [9]
- The tender snow had compassionated the beautiful edifice for all the wrongs of time, and so hid the stains and ugliness of decay that it looked as if just from the hand of the builder--or, better said, just from the brain of the architect. [5]
- His whole story had become known in the duchy, and though it begot no feeling against him in war-time, now that Bercy was in a neutral zone of peace there was much talk of the wrongs of Guida and the Countess Chantavoine. [11]
- But He who guides the stars with a watchful eye, The deeds of men lay open without disguise; Oh, this alone will avenge the wrongs I bear, For all the oppressed are His peculiar care. [5]
- I shall never forget him as he stood there (for what seemed an age) recalling one by one the wrongs this woman had done him. [9]
- But now the fires of her old wrongs flamed up in her breast and began to burn fiercely. [5]
- Then they swooped down upon the government with their wrongs once more. [5]
- Fail not to do this--think not of the tedious relations of our wrongs --be invincible. [5]
- A man who commits public wrongs should be punished. [11]
- He said--to himself, but at his conscience--"I know it's wrong; but it would be wrong not to do it; and two wrongs do not make a right. [5]
- Three bending statues bear up that gilded seat, which, in spite of the time-hallowed usurpations and consecrated wrongs so long associated with its history, is still venerated as the throne. [6]
- Each was to be borne home separately, but both preferred, spite of the bright summer weather, to draw the curtains, that unseen they might weep, and ask themselves how such wrongs could have been inflicted upon the dead woman and themselves. [10]
- He could not avenge Guida's wrongs upon her husband, for all men knew that he himself had loved her for years. [11]
- One may not attribute to this man a generous indignation against the wrongs done the poor; one may not dignify him with a generous impulse of any kind. [5]
- He was not at Ridley Court to solve mysteries, to probe into the past, to set his father's wrongs right; but to serve himself, to reap for all those years wherein his father had not reaped. [11]
- That is ourself, as we look after finishing an article, getting a three-mile pull with the ten-foot sculls, redressing the wrongs of the toilet, and standing with the light of hope in our eye and the reflection of a red curtain on our cheek. [6]
- If she had any wrongs, if she had suffered any pain, the fear that obsessed her obliterated all. [9]
- Of her wrongs, and her forsaken estate, and the cruelties which had been put upon her? [5]
- By heaven, I am--I am--I am-- I know the wrongs you've suffered. [11]
- I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured. [7]
- It is as a lesson rather than as a reproach that I call up the memory of these irreparable errors and wrongs. [3]
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