21 collocations for maligns

He wanted to marry her, but his relations maligned her character, and he cast her off; nor does he know what has become of her and her child.

Forgive me maligning the gods of your idolatry.

"Look at this man," Sir Giles continued, addressing Jocelyn; "and you will perceive how those who malign the Star-Chamber are treated.

It is odd to think how I hated it all that night, how to myself I maligned all climbers, calling them in my haste foolhardysenselessimbecile, when I had only to go up my first easy mountain to become as keen as the worstor the best.

When he came to the tree of glory, he was welcomed with an universal shout of the people; but there were not wanting some who maligned this completion of glory, now about to be fulfilled by our hero, and endeavoured to prevent it by knocking him on the head as he stood under the tree, while the chaplain was performing his last office.

Why, whowho hath maligned The Countess? Regent Not maligned.

Having passed through the offices of quaestor, plebeian, and curule aedile, and, lastly, that of praetor; when now he raised his mind to the hope of the consulship, he courted the gale of popular favour by maligning the dictator, and received alone the credit of the decree of the people.

"Now we must render this much maligned gentleman that justice which was persistently denied to him by press and public alike; it was positively asserted by all those present that Mr. Cohen himself repeatedly tried to induce young Mr. Ashley to give up playing.

She squinted, lied with a false tongue, and maligned even the best of beings.

To say that this is the novel of the year is to malign its greatness It is the novel of the century, of all centuries, of all time.

" "Anybody who tries to make Edison out a small potato," declared Bill, addressing the others, rather than the supercilious youth who had maligned his hero, "is simply ignorant of the facts.

"You and Mr. Calvert seem to be in a conspiracy to malign His Royal Highness," she said, turning around.

On the other hand, the learned scholar, the late William Frederick Poole, first in the North American Review, in 1869, and again in his paper Witchcraft in Boston, in 1882, in the Memorial History of Boston, calls Calef an immature youth, and says that his obvious intent, and that of the several unknown contributors who aided him, was to malign the Boston ministers and to make a sensation.

In order to save the property he has maligned my mother, and has cheated me and the creditors most horriblymost infernally.

If the report of the world does not malign the prince, he lives, as does the gambler, out of the spoil taken from the gamblers.

This they offered to vacate for him, and proceeded to malign the Romans, saying that the latter, should they conquer them while isolated, would immediately make a campaign against him.

Par be it from us to malign the excellent Mrs. Sykes or to suggest that her opportune presence on the front steps was due to anything save the virtue of cleanliness.

History seems to have proved that tradition has maligned the Vandal; the Goth can boast a ruler raised at the centre of Eastern civilization and refinement; but the Lombard of the invasion can never appear as other than the rude barbarian rushing from his wild northern home, and forcing on a defenseless people the laws and the customs suited to his own rugged nature and the unformed state of society in which he lived.

The world did not hesitate to malign this holiest act of fidelity.

It is as hard upon Mr. Shand as it is upon me.' 'Shand, I suppose, can take care of himself.' 'No doubt;and so in real truth can I. I can stand apart and defy them all; and as I look at them looking at me, and almost know with what words they are maligning me, I can tell myself that they are beneath me, and that I care nothing for them.

But when everybody can see that you acted out of pure benevolence, the ingrate waits until you make some public mistake, which gives him the opportunity of maligning his benefactor and winning credence, in order to free himself from the obligation under which he lies.

21 collocations for  maligns