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  • And a third would pipe up with, "You must be firm with these people, otherwise every dirt-farming peasant who resents paying tax and tithe to his overlord and the Church win come whining to you for redress of his so-called wrongs."

    The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • She would begin to appear as a fickle and selfish woman, passing falsely as a widow, and playing a double game between the attentions of foolish but honourable young men, and the fitful appearances of a wandering and good-for-nothing sailor-husband; a man prepared to act that most well-worn of melodramatic rôles, the conjugal bully and blackmailer, the man who uses marital rights as an instrument for the worse kind of wrongs.

    Robert Browning 1905

  • The Irishman has still a grievance -- nay more, Ireland talks of "wrongs."

    The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890

  • Gorgios: they're two very different kinds o 'wrongs.'

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

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