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• It named a man in Riverville as a sample of the kind of citizen she was trying to injure, and demanded so threateningly her reasons for doing so, that Mary was troubled by its covert threats. —  Mary Ware's Promised Land
• He, however, was apt to ride his hobby his own way; and though it did now and then kick up the dust a little in the eyes of his neighbors, and grieve the spirit of some friends, for whom he felt the truest deference and affection; yet his errors and follies are remembered "more in sorrow than in anger," and it begins to be suspected, that he never intended to injure or offend. —  The Short-story
• In the faith or errors of Probus and Felix he thought there was nothing that should injure their Christian name, or unfit them for any office. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
• Although in the present edicts the people are not let loose as authorized murderers upon the Christians, they are nevertheless exhorted and required to inform against them and bring them before the proper tribunals on the charge of Christianity, so that there is lodged in their hands a fearful power to harrass and injure--a power which is used as you may suppose Romans would use it. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
• The white chief tells me that if you injure or kill the white men you now have he will hold you responsible, because he is powerful, and is now ready to destroy you and your wives and children, but he does not want to do that. —  The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages

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