"Revile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets ...
— The Book of Common Prayer - and The Scottish Liturgy • Church of England
... page of the chamber spake unto him; now, although he was page of the chamber, he was king of the Romans. "Lord," said he, "all thy people revile thee." "Wherefore do they revile me?" asked the emperor. "Because they can get neither message nor answer from thee, as men should have from their lord. This is the cause why thou art spoken evil of." "Youth," ...
— The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards
... two chief aims and occupations. The first is to obtain an entree into the society of the country in which they are residing, and to identify themselves with that society: the second is to revile one another. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 • Various
... make his dwelling-place far from the grey skies and the biting east winds of his boyhood's home, these grey Scotch skies, these bitter winds, still haunt him and appear in his books with the strange charm they have for the sons and daughters of the north who, even while they revile them, love them, and in far lands long for them with a heart-hunger that no cloudless sky, no gentle zephyr, no unshadowed sunshine of the ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson • Margaret Moyes Black
... I do,' said Eleanor. 'I think I do believe that he means well—and if so, it is a shame that we should revile him, and make him miserable while he is among us. But, oh Mary, I fear papa will be ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
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