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Example sentences for "great wrong"

  • You did me a great wrong, and in return for this injury I demand that you become my man.

  • Madam," said the lady of the tower, "you have done me great wrong to take from me the lands which King Aniause gave me.

  • Now, I pray you," said Isolde, "will you not do me the grace to fight for my love with three knights that have done me great wrong?

  • Durvasa replied, 'By spoiling the repast, we have done a great wrong to that royal sage, king Yudhishthira.

  • In respect of even a great wrong forgiveness is due from the regenerate.

  • Now I pray you, said La Beale Isoud, tell me will you fight for my love with three knights that do me great wrong?

  • A great wrong or mistake has made me its victim, and the body lying in yonder cemetery is that of a stranger.

  • Scarcely a moment passed that he did not reproach himself for the great wrong he had done.

  • I am sorry, for I am convinced I have done a great wrong.

  • Now I pray you, said La Beale Isoud, tell me will ye fight for my love with three knights that done me great wrong?

  • To hold and treat him as property is to inflict a great wrong, to incur the guilt of oppression.

  • In the first two sections I propose to show that slavery is a great wrong, but I do not intend to pass sentence on the character of the slave-holder.

  • I have endeavoured to show in the preceding sections that slavery is a violation of sacred rights, the infliction of a great wrong.

  • The words seemed to be set ablaze by the divine fires of a soul maddened by a great wrong.

  • They held that the Fathers had been led into this compact unwittingly and without full realisation of the responsibilities that they were assuming for the perpetuation of a great wrong.

  • It is doing a great wrong to take my life.

  • My heart tells me I should not die,--that you do me a great wrong in taking my life.

  • You have to suffer a great wrong; but will you be consoled for it by the knowledge that you have led to the slaughter men whom you have known from your infancy?

  • He readily acknowledged, as slaveholders of that day generally did, that, abstractly considered, the enslavement of fellow-men was a great wrong.

  • I have done a great wrong to two people, a very great wrong, and it is too late to right it.

  • It was a great wrong, a very great wrong--and yet, every one meant well.

  • It was a great wrong I did you, Don; can you forgive me?

  • Illustration: "It was a great wrong I did you Don, can you forgive me?

  • Hazel: Whether or no, you have a great wrong done me!

  • Staffy: They have done him a great wrong surely, taking from him all he had of comfort in his life.

  • You have a great wrong done to the woman inside, where you left her burying bare.

  • The minister shrugged his shoulders, and replied, "It is a great wrong--BUT IT WILL LAST MY TIME.

  • To which, each answered in like manner, "It is a great wrong--BUT IT WILL LAST MY TIME.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great builder; great cost; great delight; great effulgence; great hall; great haste; great lover; great measure; great merchant; great might; great monastery; great need; great party; great picture; great powers; great prince; great proportion; great shape; great stature; great stone; great strength; great want; great weakness; greater depth; greater evil; greatly obliged