martyrize
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But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.
From Time Magazine Archive
She felt too sore and too sick for the aid that comes veiled with inscrutable symbolism, and seems to martyrize when it seeks to save.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
So, wrapped in oblivion to all earthly considerations save that of her Own inward gloom, the one person who might have responded merely swayed back and forth, in martyrized silence.
From Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life by Alice Brown
It is no longer so very laudable for a young man to pay his way through college; and Morris Leighton had done this easily and without caring to be praised or martyrized for doing so.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
Those who know Parisian life will readily understand how a woman of her temperament suffered, and was martyrized at heart by the scantiness of her pecuniary means.
From Bureaucracy by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
"By the way," said Hilda, seized by a sudden impulse, which had its origin in Sarah's tone at once martyrized and accusing,--"by the way, who is it that's been talking scandal about me and George?"
From Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
But if the men are enslaved by polygamy, the women are martyrized.
From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers
She thought of how these men, these Brodricks, behaved to genius wherever they met it; how, among them, they had driven poor Jinny all but mad, martyrizing her in the name of fact.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself.'
From Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
When he thought of her in his monstrous shop, wilting in the heat, bowing deferentially to fools, martyrizing her soul for less than two pounds a week, he thought of kings' daughters sold into slavery.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett
She would be capable of martyrizing the whole world to her sense of duty, her damnable, insane sense of duty....
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
Oh, no," the doctor shook her head; "young couples are always martyrizing themselves for these events.
From The Nest Builder by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
