239 Verbs to Use for the Word wrong

To be brief, my lords: if I have lived honourably among you, if I have never given plain speech to any, avenge my wrongs.

But that I should take up his ghost and right its wrongs, and save it from its trouble, was such a mission as was enough to confuse any man.

It is legitimate to admire knights who ride about "redressing human wrongs," fighting dragons and rescuing fair ladies from wicked giants, and at this stage there is no need to draw a hard and fast line between history and legendary literature.

The people are suffering wrongs, and the remedy rests with methe one man.

But Beatrice would hear nothing in Claudio's defence; and she continued to urge on Benedick to revenge her cousin's wrongs:

Perhaps he had wished to punish Constance, perhaps he had desired to repair the old wrong:

He who has committed the wrong must make reparation for it to the extreme limits of his resources, and this principle, recognized by the jurists, requires that the total of the whole cost of the War fall upon the enemy nations.

" He ceased, and prudent joined the circling throng, And in the public good forgot the private wrong. From far the King the generous Champion viewed, And rising, mildly thus his speech pursued: "Since various tempers govern all mankind, Me, nature fashioned of a froward mind; And what the heavens spontaneously bestow, Sown by their bounty must for ever grow.

Jemshíd thus rejoined: "Unjustly am I brought in chains before thee, Betrayed, insultedthou the cause of all, And yet thou wouldst appear to feel my wrongs!" Incensed at this defiance, mixed with scorn, Fiercely Zohák replied, "Then choose thy death; Shall I behead thee, stab thee, or impale thee, Or with an arrow's point transfix thy heart!

She was forever making him forgive wrongs, or what he fancied to be wrongs, and causing him seem at fault in all his squabbles, so that he was often heard to say, when things went as he didn't want them: "I don't know whether I am to blame or the other fellow until Kate hears the story.

Nay, methinks better far thou dost love thy cold and cruel prideso must Pentavalon endure her grievous wrongs, and so do I pity her, butmost of allI pity thee, messire!"

Yet I will take what words I think thy heart Holdeth of anger: and in even part Set my wrong and thy wrong, and all that fell.

Sir, you are of so strange a jealous Humour, And I so strangely jealous of your Honour, That 'twixt us both we may make work enough; But on my Soul I know no wrong you have.

Every Indian feels the insult to the Punjab as a personal wrong, every Mussalman resents the wrong done to the Khilafat.

When we are firmly of opinion that grave wrong has been done us and when after an appeal to the highest authority we fail to secure redress, there must be some power available to us for undoing the wrong.

I am aware that my course in this matter is liable to be regarded as singular, if not censurable; and I must, therefore, be allowed to make a more specific statement of those provisions of the Constitution which support the enormous wrong, the heinous sin of slavery.

There are parents who mean no wrong, and yet who make no scruple of deceiving them in reply to their simple questionings, forgetting, or regardless of the fact, that a false answer to their innocent inquiries put in good faith, and in the earnest pursuit of truth, may plant an error in their minds, which may take years of experience, and often a painful amount of ridicule to eradicate.

Come often to us, fear no wrong; Sit near us on the bough!

The government has done nothing to call out their indignation, or to inflict on them a wrong.

He remembers the wrongs of his youth, and repays them with that usury which he himself would not take.

She bore the wrongs which she suffered as a wife with a very patient and unrepining spirit, and loved her husband with the most devoted attachment to the end.

Now whoso list accuse me, tell my wrongs, Upbraid me in the presence of this state.

It is not a legal power which is needed in this case; it is a moral power which shall prevent the wrong, or, if committed, shall induce penitence, forgiveness, a purer life, and the healing of the wound.

If the changeling had been living at the time you asked me to marry you, I should have told you all; but the poor little creature was dead, and there seemed to be no necessity of confessing the wrong I had done.

Was he willing thus to conceal the wrongs of his mother's children even from himself?

239 Verbs to Use for the Word  wrong