Which preposition to use with victim
The blacksmith will allow himself nothingthe beau will deny himself nothing: the one is a slave to pleasurethe other, the victim of fear.
That entertaining no doubt of this intelligence hopeless of ever seeing me again, and indifferent to every thing besides, she had been led an unresisting victim to the altar.
Would OAKEY HALL and PETER B. SWEENY put such a slight upon these bastard allies of the O'BRIENS and MORRISSEYS whose columns are open to the highest bidder, and whose lips reek venom while their hands are ever ready to strike a victim in the back, as to pass them by while they were on the war-path?
"But what then?" "Men of ability," declared Hetty slowly, "are of two classes: the very successful, who attain high and honorable positions, or the clever scoundrels who fasten themselves like leeches on humanity and bleed their victims with heartless unconcern.
But the winner, apparently unconscious of suspicion, lined up his victims at the bar.
The assailants would approach their victims from many directions at once, shoot blazing missiles at them, and hurl torches fastened to javelins from their hands, and with the aid of engines threw pots full of charcoal and pitch upon some boats from a distance.
The general impression was that they were the representatives of a fashionable firm of undertakers and had come to measure the victim for his coffin.
As the vice in question appears to be upon the increase, and to fascinate its victims by the allurements of the excitement, we consider it worthy of PUNCHINELLO'S lance, or, in other words, of being transfixed upon PUNCHINELLO'S quill.
Four of these monsters I saw profaning the name of religion, by forcibly placing their victim on the pile, under the show of assisting her to mount it; and there held her down, beside the dead body of her husband, until, by cords provided for the purpose, she was prevented from rising.
To this place families, and when the concern was general, multitudes repaired every year, when, upon this stone, were made libations of wine, oil, honey, and flour; and here they sacrificed and ate in common, having first made a trench in which they burnt the entrails of the victim into which the libation and the blood were made to flow.
Somehow, watching him, I visualized the victim as a little man, old and stoop-shouldered and feeble in his movements.
The fact that Mary Coombe had been a drug victim under treatment did not come out at the inquest.
" And with Armand, so finished, so self-poised, so distinguished, in my mind, and the body of his latest victim before my eyes, I nodded gloomily.
No doubt the light of truth, which the abolitionists are pouring into the dark den of slavery, greatly excites the monster's wrath: and it may be, that he vents a measure of it on the helpless and innocent victims within his grasp.
The squire abandons his victim after ruining her character,not an uncommon thing among young aristocrats,and the girl strangely accepts the renewed attentions of her first lover, until the logic of events compels her to run away from home and become a vagrant.
Euripides seems to have taken positive pleasure in Admetus, much as Meredith did in his famous Egoist; but Euripides all through is kinder to his victim than Meredith is.
She is to be made a victim through her tenderest and most natural affections.
The blow of the slug, like the punch of a strong man's fist, knocked the victim out of his chair to the floor.
However, it pleased "God the light to enlighten the darkness" of his spirit, and to convince him of the error and the wickedness of his ways; and from the terrors which such conviction engendered, seems to have originated that aberration of intellect, of which he was the victim during great part of two years.
The cry was not repeated; his own hoarse calling brought no response; the inscrutable forces of the Wild had summoned their victim beyond recalland held him fast.
The Sioux warrior paused a moment, and then turning to his young men, ordered them to bind the prisoner, and commence that long list of atrocious cruelties which ever precede the death of a victim among the Indians.
Boswell was "horribly shocked," but he still stuck to his victim like a leech, and pried into the minutest details of his life and manners.
What has happened since the sudden aggression of which I was the victim near the pavilion? I had just quitted the doctor, and was about to mount the steps, close the door and resume my post beside Thomas Roch when several men sprang upon me and knocked me down.
The big humming machine had slain its victim without wavering for a second from its steady beating.
She came and went like a dream, and when the man, in whose arms Norris Vine was after all but a child, finally dragged his victim across the floor by the collar and turned up the electric light, the table towards which he looked was bare.