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Was it not an indictment to all those whose business it is to interpret and solace the wretched, that a boy should have grown up in an American city so uncared for, so untouched by higher issues, his wounds of life so unhealed by religion that the first talk he ever heard dealing with life's wrongs,
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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Reparation for inflicted material and moral wrongs,
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That the coldest may thrill at the count of her wrongs,
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To _you_ the question may be nothing more than a gambling excitement as to the final outcome of your aërial squabble: but to the poor men who had to bear the wrongs,
The Purple Cloud 1906
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He has always waited for others to right his wrongs,
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Then in a querulous tone, ludicrously disproportioned to his wrongs,
Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Catholics were discriminated against, and the nonconformists were not requited for their services; but out of many minor injustices and wrongs,
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890
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Nor think that they are victims -- turned to wrongs,
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If Heaven was shocked at such presumptuous wrongs,
Maurine and Other Poems Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1887
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Volunteers, All burning to avenge their fathers 'wrongs,
Tecumseh : a Drama Charles Mair 1882
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