Never again, Miss Brownell felt, would Emily be able to look levelly at her with those dauntless eyes that bespoke a soul untamable and free, no matter what punishment might be inflicted upon body or mind.
If you had told him that he inflicted purposeless misery not only on others but on himself, he would have grinned again, vaguely aware that he had not tried to be happy, and rather despising happiness as a sort of childish gewgaw.
Paul was very kind, very good, very forbearing; he saw the sharp pain inflicted, and felt the weighty humiliation imposed by my own sense of incapacity; and words can hardly do justice to his tenderness and helpfulness.
The ears burned on each side of my head as I listened, perforce, to tales of moral martyrdom inflicted by Rome; the dread boasts of confessors, who had wickedly abused their office, trampling to deep degradation high-born ladies, making of countesses and princesses the most tormented slaves under the sun.
Perkins, martinet though he was, would hardly, I think, have inflicted such a punishment on Cecily, who was a favourite of his, had he known the real nature of that luckless missive.
That was worse: she fretted and sighed, and looked at her watch till eight, and finally went to her room, completely overdone with sleep; judging by her peevish, heavy look, and the constant rubbing she inflicted on her eyes.
The ill-treatment inflicted on Ayrton was now redoubled.
Mr Tulliver had a destiny as well as Œdipus, and in this case he might plead, like Œdipus, that his deed was inflicted on him rather than committed by him.
There was something horrible to Dorothea in the sensation which this unresponsive hardness inflicted on her.
Perhaps she got enjoyment out of the torture she inflicted.
I remember, for instance, how my father's early death led me to understand all the injuries inflicted by the world added together are sometimes less devastating than a single misfortune in your family.
Forgiveness is the pill we must swallow when we suffer from hurt inflicted by others.
,,: Remember all the pain he/she inflicted on you.
Apartheid has inflicted more pain on you than on anyone.
First, local governments acted, but in a soft way, and not much pain was inflicted.
Detective Del Spooner: [as Sonny observes the inflicted damage to the interrogation table] That one's called anger.
Several — though not all — other banks also say they are seeing higher application levels and improved retention rates despite the battering the industry's reputation has taken for everything from long hours to causing a crisis that inflicted poverty on a generation.
There are many reasons for that but perhaps the simplest explanation is that freer trade has inflicted a more grievous toll than economists, myself included, had expected.
"It was also clear that the next large earthquake to strike near the Valley would cause significantly greater loss of life, structural damage, and economic hardship than past earthquakes had inflicted.
Depending where you draw the line, either I am about to enjoy the fruits of half a century of increasing affluence and entitlement, having climbed to the top of the hierarchy I help sustain; or I am entering a period of resentment about my smug elders' lockhold on the best jobs and homes and the damage they have inflicted on the environment and humankind.
