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Dismissed, boycotted, ostracized, they are suffering as in the days when neither freedom of thought nor of conscience were tolerated.
The bulk of the skilled, intelligent, and educated artisans were held up to contempt and ostracized, or killed as an odious aristocracy.
It will never trouble itself to inquire minutely into the truth, but will pronounce its hasty judgment, and then ostracize.
His Majesty would have made friends with them, but the archbishop, an estimable man in his robes, practically ostracized them.
It is a matter of public scandal, and I am surprised that society has not already ostracized you for your audacious defiance of propriety.
His oration is framed as if the audience whom he was addressing were about to ostracize one out of the three, by show of hands.
Grant found himself shunned and practically ostracized by all save Stone and Eliot, and even Roger made no particular effort to be friendly.
While public sentiment ostracizes and is more severe and unrelenting with the woman, the law always inflicts its penalty upon the man.
When we had done this thing we should be discredited and ostracized by the people we knew best, and for some time to come.
This poor young mulatto is completely ostracized not only by West Point society, but most thoroughly by the corps of cadets itself.
"Ostracized by his brethren, he proceeded to lay siege to the widow with great activity, and with such success that she soon capitulated."
When this hybrid grew to man's estate it turned against the tribe, because, perhaps, of indignities suffered by its mother, who was ostracized.
A player repeatedly guilty of such conduct, or of intentionally violating any other law, should be reprimanded, and, if the offense be continued, ostracized.
True, Jordan had not so far been strongly suspected of being morose or surly; he had escaped being ostracized, but he certainly was not popular.
He was ostracized more studiously than any leper; it is said that his own father cut him when they passed each other in the street.
The isolated class referred to are known by representatives of all businesses and are tacitly ostracized when the army of decent fellows is being discussed.
The hypocritical advice of the leaders of the great universities, that the people ostracize the Magnates, has now ceased to satisfy the exigencies of the case.
Ostracized by English society, his relations with it finally severed, he disdains to defend himself further against its criticism, and espouses the cause of unhappy humanity.
There is a small class of reprobate white men who have ostracized themselves by means of drink and bad morals, and are a curse to the natives.
An attempt may be made, of course, and indeed must be made, but to succeed too well will for many years mean either being exterminated or being ostracized.
One day a cadet came to Jimmy and said he would befriend him if he dared to, 'but you know I would be ostracized if I should speak to you.'
For if a Chinese went contrary to the rules, he would be ostracized from the community and unable to do business with any other member of the community.
There were, it is true, some desertions; but, as those who formed these marriages were, from the outset, despised and ostracized by society, they were not numerous.
The two former had both recommended the taking of an ostracizing vote, each hoping to cause the banishment of the other; but before the day arrived, they accommodated the difference.
Society would soon ostracize the human suitor having such manners, and might even consider him amenable to the civil courts, and put him in jail as a character unfit to be abroad.
I know that such abominations do exist, and so does the fair reader, who is ready to ostracize me for daring to hint thus publicly at what she privately approves and advocates.
The state of siege which for nine long years had been throttling the city was at last taken off; the terror which had haunted the ostracized community came to an end.
In doing this he came in conflict with the unjust views and iniquitous conduct of an old, crushed party, and he was denounced as a traitor, and ostracized because he would be just.
For twenty years he and his followers, heralds of the storm, were ostracized by all political parties, which accepted his theories, but denied the necessity for putting them into practice.
Not only could he ruin their enterprise, but he could ostracize them socially and could make of them marked and shunned men in the community where they had always been respected.
Physically contemptible, politically ostracized, and in a humble social position, he could yet win this dazzling prize and force his way with his pen to the highest pinnacle of contemporary fame.
Whatsoever their own shortcomings might be, at least they knew that they were not guilty of hypocrisy; they did not cry "Whosoever will" and then brazenly ostracize half the world.
The Witch recalled an instance where a distinguished political leader married a sewing woman, and his bride was ostracized from society when it leaked out that she had labored for a livelihood.
When men violated social usages, as sometimes happened, the guilty were ostracized, and such was the habit of thought among them that this ostracism drove the guilty one away to live by himself.
He thanked me very cordially, asked how I was getting along in my studies, expressed much regret at my being ostracized, wished me all sorts of success, and again thanking me took his leave.
If she engages with him in any erotic preliminary play, she ostracizes herself in his eyes from the class of women to which his mother and sisters belong, women who would not do that.
They were eager, therefore, to bring about such a condition of things as would make it possible for them to be known as Republicans without subjecting themselves and their families to the risk of being socially ostracized by their white Democratic neighbors.
As soon as superiority clearly manifests itself, in political life, in literature, in the fine arts, anywhere, it is ostracized. ? I was talking one day with a Frenchman, who still massacres the English language, although he has lived in this country more than twenty years.
He had not betrayed the trust I had placed in him, yet the murmur had gone about which virtually ostracized her, and instead of confronting the eager looks of friends, she found herself met by averted glances and coldly turned backs, and soon by an almost empty hall.
He in paint and Zola in words told the truth, and they were howled down and ostracized all their lives, simply because the theorists, like this surgeon, fed up with themselves, nursed in the belief that science is all powerful, will always assure the public that modern war is humane.