He was reviled as a whimsical Reformer, and a rash Enthusiast, who had absurdly sacrificed his life in a vain and fantastic pursuit.

While the air has been filled with calumnies and revilings of his cause, none have been aimed at him.

Apuleius and Mæcenas were at one time bitterly reviled in some court of adultery, not because they had themselves behaved wantonly but because they had actively aided the man on trial; thereupon Augustus entered the courtroom and sat in the prætor's chair: he did nothing violent, but simply forbade the accuser to insult his relatives or friends, and then rose and left the place.

The most biting and spicy condiments of the little meal, to which the three sat down, were supplied by Mrs Keswick, who reviled without stint those utterly thoughtless and heedless colored people, who, once in the midst of their crazy religious exercises, totally forgot that they owed any duty whatever to those who employed them.

At night I could not sleep, and bitter were my thoughts, my revilings against a cruel fate that had condemned mea man with so sensitive a heart and so generous a natureto the sorrows of perpetual solitude.

Upon which, they instantly changed their revilings into loud huzzas.

The danger of such a crisis was heightened by the bitter taunts that broke forth from fifty profane lips, which were only opened to lavish the coarsest revilings on the persons and characters of their respective enemies.

It makes a man become the witness of his own words, to stand to whatever he hath said, and thinketh it a reproach to commit his reviling unto the law.

Till at last they all awoken and they came out of their huts and they reviled at me for disturbing them as they slept themselfs so happily.

Since then I've wandered all fair Hellas o'er, Reviled of men, a torment to myself.