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Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenhoeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.—Colton.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Persecuting Bishops, 91. attack on Bishop March, 91. efforts on behalf of Catholic Emancipation, 106 seq.

From Sydney Smith by Russell, George William Erskine

In November 1822, Sydney Smith, in the Edinburgh Review, came to the assistance of his brother-clergy against the high-handed tyranny of the Persecuting Bishop.

From Sydney Smith by Russell, George William Erskine

"Persecuting her?" repeated Craig, stifling the remark that that was not in itself a new thing in this or any other family.

From The War Terror by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Persecuting us from one place to another, he banished us, at last, even from under a huge rock hanging over the water.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)