By many he is called the reviler of the gods, the author of all fraud and mischief, and the shame of gods and men alike. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian] Reference
And he that always talketh evil becometh a reviler. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
The reviler, on the other hand, meets with destruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
She was an Israelite, an infidel and a reviler of the gods. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
On the other hand, the reviler speaks against a man to his face. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
For he that suffers himself to be reviled, encourages the reviler. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Suddenly the reviler started, and exclaimed, Lord, have mercy upon us!. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
If, then, a man listens like a stone, what profit is there to the reviler?. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
Therefore one ought not to suffer oneself to be reviled, but rather reply to the reviler. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The inconsistency of the reviler of things sacred, was becoming more barefaced and unpardonable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
But if the reviler has as a stepping-stone the weakness of him who is reviled, then he accomplishes something. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
I keep my hands free; I write openly; I am no hidden reviler of the French, but a public worshipper of all that is sublime. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
First, for the good of the reviler; namely, that his daring may be checked, and that he may not repeat the attempt, according to Prov. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
He simply edged away from his reviler, who went off to. From Wordnik.com. [Bred In The Bone 1908] Reference
But the reviler in Milton is too far ahead of the reasoner. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton] Reference
“The reviler of the gods shall be cared for,” he said to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The fair god, or, The last of the 'Tzins] Reference
Buchanan, later a follower of John Knox and a reviler of Mary Stuart. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
If ever a man was marked out to be a bitter reviler of fate, it was he. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
"Or a reviler, or an extortioner:" for these too he had rebuked before. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
Swift he quoted with admirable effect, but it was Swift the reviler, not Swift the jester. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
Again, Marcolf in the French version of Mauclerc is much more completely the reviler of woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
"Avaunt, unchristian reviler! avaunt! wilt thou not allow the soul of his honour to rest in peace?". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
But Samuel treated his reviler with much kindness, and one day King Habus and Samuel passed the same Moor. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters on Jewish Literature] Reference
He that treats a rebel, and a murderer of his prince, in terms suitable to those actions, is not a reviler. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference
The effect of their preaching was astonishing, as even Clarendon, their prejudiced and bitter reviler, admits. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
The reviler labors to fabricate a public sentiment which shall ultimately injure the man against whom he speaks. From Wordnik.com. [The Sin of Reviling, and Its Work] Reference
And although he has, in former days, held up Buchanan on the stump as an old Federalist, and as the reviler and persecutor of. From Wordnik.com. [Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors] Reference
Homer may merely have intended to represent the reviler of kings as odious and despicable, but there seems to be some humour intended. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference
Was he a reviler when he called the Jews an adulterous and perverse generation, a progeny of vipers, hypocrites, children of the devil?. From Wordnik.com. [Contend Earnestly] Reference
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